Following up on assholes

On Steve's earlier post regarding Central American politics and the projection of American Presidential power , according to the Altavista Babelfish translation service , the English "asshole" translates directly into "asshole" in Spanish. Thus, according to the same service, a "stupid asshole" is "asshole estupida", and "fucking asshole" is "asshole de mierda". Thus, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, referring to "that asshole George W. Bush" (or, plaintively, "George W. Bush is an asshole") would probably have said "ese asshole George W. Bush," or "George W. Bush es un asshole."

I note that "asshole" was given a masculine article "un" instead of feminine "una", which seems to me inconsistent with the feminine ending of "estupida" above. Are assholes feminine or masculine? Perhaps as an adjective, "asshole" is treated as a feminine modifier, and as a noun, the gender depends on the gender of whose asshole we're talking about, in a similar way that in English, gentlemen (or rather, not) are referred to as "dicks" but never "cunts" and ladies (again, not) are called "cunts" but never "dicks", in the same manner of gender assignation for genitailic insults -- except, of course, when the gender assignation is a desirable point of the insult, in a somewhat unenlightend way (as in, "that bitch Harvey Weinstein").

But that's just me, talkin'.