I refer, of course, to thispiece of flapdoodle alleged to distinguish between male and female writers based on, I supposed, their auras. Just for yuks, I’ve submitted four pieces from four different works of mine–two non-fiction & two fiction–and each time it has declared me female.
Anybody know anything about this or have any experience with it you wish to share?
A little bit more seriously, there was a thread about a thing like this way back (not the Gender Genie, but similar software.) I put in dialog from my male and female characters and they came back male and female. So that actually made me quite happy, even if it was probably false positives.
I like to lift big weights with my big he-man muscles. Then I like to sweat like a pig and scarf down a bucket of ribs before letting out a huge honkin’ fart. You know, the kind of fart that lasts three minutes and makes the dog leave the room. Then I like to boink a few Hooters girls before heading out to play golf with the dudes. Then we head off to the bar to do some shots and hit on chicks. Later on, we’ll take a tour of some construction sites and boast about how we could build whatever it is even better.
Female Score: 144
Male Score: 91
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
Apparently, the algorithm counts up instances of words associated with male versus female writers. What surprised me was what the words in question were:
Male words (strongest to weakest): around, what, more, are, as, who, below, is, these, the, a, at, it, many, said, above, to.
Female words (ditto): with, if, not, where, be, when, your, her, we, should, she, and, me, myself, hers, was.
So us girls get the feminine pronouns and the W prepositions (contextual perpositions?), and the guys get the articles and positional prepositions. How can anyone be labeled female if using ‘the’ or ‘a’ is masculine?