# The Gender Genie -- Tells your gender by your writings **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574 "2003-08-21T02:47:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/41 "2003-08-21T14:14:07Z")
It determined that I was female. **WRONG!!!** OTOH, I only gave it a short sample, just a paragraph to decribe myself in general. When I get home I will copy a passage from one of the stories I have written and see how it does with that. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/42 "2003-08-21T14:31:50Z")
Apparently, the first two stanzas of E.A. Poe’s _The Raven_ were written by him, but the next two were written by a woman. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/43 "2003-08-21T14:34:06Z")
I put chunks of assorted writings I happen to have handy into it, and, generally, it regarded fairly “heavy” stuff (book reviews, and a piece of parody written in the style of the Book of Jeremiah) as “male”, while personal communications, in relatively informal language, came out as “female”. Obviously, women write more frivolously and flippantly, and can’t concentrate on the hard stuff. (It thinks that was written by a woman. Which, by the way, I’m not.) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/44 "2003-08-21T14:42:52Z")
Perhaps the genie gets it wrong more than 50% of the time because people intentionally give it difficult passages? Then again, it could be just a POS 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/45 "2003-08-21T14:54:18Z")
Now, I wonder what it would say about a theme album I’m writing, where the songs are told from a female perspective, but written of course by myself, a male? I’ll try when I get home. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/46 "2003-08-21T15:01:35Z")
It guessed correctly (using excerpts of e-mails I sent) 5 times!! All female here. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/47 "2003-08-21T15:08:56Z")
It thought I was male 3 out of 5 times. Color me unimpressed. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/48 "2003-08-21T15:49:01Z")
It pegged me as female five out of six times. I’m a boy. ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/49 "2003-08-22T03:31:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bouv \* > \*\*Uhhh…is there suppossed to be a link to this place somewhere, or do i gots to find it myself? \*\* Sorry. I appear to have been an idiot yesterday. Anyway, it seems to be a load of hooey, unsurprisingly. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/50 "2003-08-22T03:49:59Z")
I used some of my short stories. [In Distress](http://www.metrodemontreal.com/matt/art/short/indistress.html) = female. [World Enough and Time](http://www.metrodemontreal.com/matt/art/short/worlendough.html) = male. [Crime Against Nature](http://www.metrodemontreal.com/matt/art/short/crime.html) = male. [The First International Dictionary of the English Language](http://www.metrodemontreal.com/matt/art/short/dictionary.html) = female. [Inde(con)structible](http://www.metrodemontreal.com/matt/art/short/indeconstructible.html) = male [The Muse of Memory](http://www.metrodemontreal.com/matt/art/short/muse.html) = male [Genesis](http://www.metrodemontreal.com/matt/art/short/muse.html) = male [Show and Tell](http://www.metrodemontreal.com/matt/art/short/showandtell.html) = female [Le Cri de coeur](http://www.metrodemontreal.com/matt/art/short/cridecoeur.html) = female Grand total: 4 female, 5 male. Interestingly, the four that were identified as female are the ones that are completely autobiographical. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/51 "2003-08-22T04:45:07Z")
Hmm… I’ll try this for fun and distraction. most recent blog entry: female the last MSN buzz I sent my friend Corey: female an email I sent my friend John: female most recent LJ entry: female the post I wrote for another message board past midnight: female an IM conversation I was having with my friend Dawn: female (yup, that maes sense!) End results: 6 of 6 female. Okay, at least it doesn’t think I’m a boy! Just for fun, I decided to try some entries in [**Spoz** ’s blog](http://spoz.blogspot.com): Entry 1: female Entry 2: female Entry 3: female Entry 4: female Entry 5: male Entry 6: male Hmm… only 2 of 6 right. Somehow, I don’t think he’s going to be too happy when I tell him about this later. ☹ I think I’ll go off and do other things now… and NOT introduce this site to another board. (unless it’s for the sheer idiocy of it all) F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Angel\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_Heart)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/52 "2003-08-22T05:11:42Z")
I used 3 pieces of creative writing and one history paper. The stories all came out female, the paper, male, leading to a 75% success rate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574.md?page=2)