#5
13th Aug 2013 at 11:49 PM
Actually, I called my computer Bessie as she was a workhorse for writing much akin to the street paving machine Bessie from Disney\PIXAR's "Cars 1"
She was slightly slow and buggy for a computer during late 2011\early 2012 (which was when I got Joelle)
I guess the patriarchal tradition of naming machinery after woman is a holdover from a bygone era, but the reason I as a woman chose to name my machines after women was based partially on a gender stereotype experiment done by the MythBusters.
In that test, the men failed miserably, always doing things one at a time where as the women successfully made lunches for work and school, got dressed, made breakfast, answered the phone and kept a baby robot (dubbed Buster Jr.) from crawling out the door.
Personal Quote: "I like my men like my sodas: tall boys." (Zevia has both 12 and 16 oz options)
(P.S. I'm about 5' (150cm) in height and easily scared)