Makes sense to me (native English speaker), albeit in a non-Euclidian kind of way.

Apparently in Spanish and a few other languages they are too, though this seems to be a minority. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fork#Translations

In Spanish it's "una horquilla" (f.) when you're talking about git, "un tenedor" (m.) would be a fork used for eating. Not sure if that makes it better or worse :)

Italian, "la forchetta" - feminine.

in german it is: "Die Gabel" --> female