Kind of a cool thing

[Jesusabdullah]

I found it on reddit: http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php

I ran a bunch of shit I wrote through it. It tends towards the right gender here, but says I'm female fairly often too. Also, I apparently say "around" and "with" a lot.I misread those stats... If I'm not too tired tomorrow I'll run my texts through again and post some scores.

So...your turn I guess.

[KWill]

Male all the time, but while it's usually by a major margin where my non-fiction is concerned, my one fictional submission had a very slim margin.

[CJBurgandy]

I entered a few short story ideas I had in it and my cover letter and it said I was female, but then when I copy/pasted my comic scripts, it said I was male.

[Cope]

The two bits of prose I submitted got me pegged as male and female, respectively.

[MixedMyth]

Hah! Wow. It said I was male for the fiction work by like 2 to 1. I'm curious. I did a piece of brief sci fi, and I wonder if the nature of sci fi and its mode of writing might fall into what they consider a 'masculine' form of writing. I mean, jeez, there used to be a very real stigma about women writing sci fi as it is. Hmm. Might try a different fiction piece and see what happens.

Second fiction piece (fantasy)- No two ways about it, it thinks I'm male. Not a single female score.

Blog entry from devart- Thinks I'm female. Huh.

Nonfiction entry- Thinks I'm male 2 to 1 again.

[TRI]

I just ran some entries from my travel diary and a few longer message board posts through this thing and came up female 9 out of 10 times, and usually not by a narrow margin.

However, Jane Austen came up male.
(Not that that doesn't make sense when you think about it.)

[Neonoen]

It consistently pegs me as female, from short story entries to blog entries. Even so, it's usually very close, leaning only to female by a very small margin. Accurate enough, seeing as I'm femme but not outrageously so.

[Paul Escobar]

I fed it an essay on politics, and it says I'm male, but only at a 697/549 ratio. I find its use of "feminine keywords" and "masculine keywords" rather puzzling. Apparently, "with", "if", "be", "we", "should", "me" and "and" are feminine, while "are", "who", "is", "the", "many", "a" and "to" are masculine. Who'd have thought.

[Grabmygoblin]

non-fiction, I'm pegged as male, blog entries, as female.

makes sense to me, I get all stuffy and proper with my non-fiction, and that's reflected as masculine/traditional English rules.

[Jesusabdullah]

For the sum of most of my blag entries: Winner--MALE
Female Score: 4949
Male Score: 5206
%Pts Male: 51%
(Really close, and a lot of the separate entries registered as female. Maybe it's because of the moods I'm in or something.)

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For a play I'm working on that has a kind of Spike-ish "guy" plot (or, at least, making fun of Spike-ish "guy" plots by doing so outrageously): Winner--MALE
Female Score: 5691
Male Score: 7331
%Pts Male: 56%

For a short sci-fi story I wrote a few years ago: Winner--FEMALE
Female Score: 7057
Male Score: 5963
%Pts Male: 46%
(This is counter to MixedMyth's suggestion that sci-fi is inherently masculine.)

Edit: For a really short story I wrote to vent job frustration a few years back: Winner--FEMALE
Female Score: 813
Male Score: 735
%Pts Male: 47%
(Note, this story was written in the first person from a male character's perspective.)

Edit: For another short story segment that I never finished: Winner--FEMALE
Female Score: 1837
Male Score: 1443
%Pts Male: 44%
(Interestingly, this story was written in the first-person point of view from a female character's perspective.)

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For an essay I wrote last Spring: Winner--MALE
Female Score: 1786
Male Score: 2533
%Pts Male: 59%

For a couple random lab reports: Winner--MALE
Female Score: 1772
Male Score: 2690
%Pts Male: 60%

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Huh. I guess it does work, to an extent at least. Also, it seems that I'm fairly gender-neutral blogging, typically slightly feminine in my creative writing, and quite masculine in more technical/academic writing. Weird.

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I find its use of "feminine keywords" and "masculine keywords" rather puzzling. Apparently, "with", "if", "be", "we", "should", "me" and "and" are feminine, while "are", "who", "is", "the", "many", "a" and "to" are masculine. Who'd have thought.

Yeah, I do too. I've been meaning to read up on the method, just haven't yet.

[Metruis]

50/50, and I ran a few things through... (sighs) I'm a balanced writer, I guess? Almost everything I ran through was so very close to each other's numbers, anyway.

I don't have blog entries so I just used fiction, though...

[Paul Escobar]

I find its use of "feminine keywords" and "masculine keywords" rather puzzling. Apparently, "with", "if", "be", "we", "should", "me" and "and" are feminine, while "are", "who", "is", "the", "many", "a" and "to" are masculine. Who'd have thought.

Yeah, I do too. I've been meaning to read up on the method, just haven't yet.

As far as I can gather, that is the method: It counts certain keywords, some of which are registered as feminine, others as masculine. If you look at the list it gives you after entering a text, the keywords themselves are all pretty neutral. It doesn't count "hard content" words that would reveal what you're writing about. So in principle, it shouldn't make any difference what your subject matter is; the deciding factor should be your phrasing.

[Jesusabdullah]

Yeah, same here (I finally got around to reading the linked articles).

Oh, and MM, wanna trade stories? I'm curious to see what you fed into it.