catsmeat potter-pirbright ([info]fileg) wrote,
@ 2004-09-12 02:50:00
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gender genie
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Go to the Gender Genie. Submit 5 (or more) pieces of writing (fiction, non fiction, or a blog entry) of at least 500 words. See if they guess your gender correctly.



I submitted All Of Them Together, and was told:
Female Score: 1617
Male Score: 2433
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

when I pushed the button to say it was wrong, it responded: wow, that was written by some butch chick!

excuse me? All Of Them? Butch ? Muwhahahahah.

Breathe: Male
Female Score: 1063 / Male Score: 1867

Slouching Toward Gondolin: male
Female Score: 617 /Male Score: 1323


Weapon of Choice ( An LJ entry for Tuor): male
Female Score: 98 / Male Score: 866

River of fallen Stars: Male
Female Score: 2344 / Male Score: 2735

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[info]jennetj
2004-09-12 07:50 am UTC (link)
This is fascinating. I ran several stories through and came up about half and half male to female. But what I discovered was that if the story had half or predominant focus on a female character (say, Faramir and Eowyn, or Buffy and Giles), then my writing was female, even if the story was from the male pov. But if the story focused on males (Faramir and Aragorn), then my writing was male. I'm not quite sure what that says, but it's fascinating nonetheless.

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[info]rabidsamfan
2004-09-12 08:06 am UTC (link)
Well, it read my lembas essays as male, the action-adventure stories (Unlucky and Fourteen Days) as male, and the angst (The Ringbearer and the Rose) and mild smut (Speed the Plow) as female.

Of course, I quoted a lot of the Professor in the action-adventure stuff, or at least tried to emulate him, so I suppose that would make a difference. But why would the nonfiction come up as male, I wonder?

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[info]zillah975
2004-09-12 08:45 am UTC (link)
What's interesting to me is which words it tags as masculine and which as feminine. Why are with, if, not, where, be, when, your, her, we, should, she, and, me, myself, hers, and was considered feminine, whereas around, what, more, are, as, who, below, is, these, the, a, at, it, many, said, above, and to considered masculine?

It said my as-yet unposted Vakko/Riddick slash was written by a man, my whinging blog entry by a woman, the letter from one character to someone he loves by a woman, and the two ficlets about the same character getting over that relationship by a man.

I mean seriously, why is "the" a masculine word?

Bewildering.

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Because men are objective and realistic
[info]bellatrys
2004-09-12 09:07 am UTC (link)
and women are subjective and emotional.

Seriously. That's the level they're operating on.

I did a bunch of tests with it, after this first came out last year and sent fandom into conniptions. Stories about interpersonal relationships are by women. Stories with female charaters are by women. Autobiography is by women. Action adventure is classed as male. Nonfiction almost inevitably ends up by men.

Here's how to have a lot of fun with GG and Project Gutenberg: take authors like Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George MacDonald, Leo Tolstoy, pretty much any of the Victorians, and toss in chapters. If you can find a site like Baen Books where they have sample chapters of modern authors, toss them in too.

You will fry the Gender Genie's brains, because Baroness Orczy writes action adventure, yet Victorian action-adventure has a lot of talk and romance, too (qv Prisoner of Zenda) and popular novels by male authors tend to be full of angsty introspection and personality. And modern milsf? With female Marines and Navy captains fixing spaceships?

"That does not compute!"

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Re: Because men are objective and realistic
[info]fileg
2004-09-12 11:49 am UTC (link)
I am wondering if this is in some way related to the Real World theory that there are no women Tolkien fans.

All of them is about Thorongil "babysitting" for bitty Boromir - very masculine, eh? Interpersonal relationship with a 5 year old. But, it does use the word soldiers..

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[info]naamah_darling
2004-09-12 09:18 am UTC (link)
I tried putting in entries from my journal. It thinks I am male if I tell it I am writing nonfiction or a blog entry, but if I classify the same chunk of text as nonfiction, it thinks I'm female.

My ACTUAL fiction is male no matter what I do to it.

::boggles::

I'm fine with that, actually. But what is with this thing?

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