gender genie

[fileg]

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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

Comments

Because men are objective and realistic

[bellatrys.livejournal.com]

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!"

Re: Because men are objective and realistic

[fileg.livejournal.com]

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..