Gender Wackiness

[przed]

fileg pointed to the Gender Genie.

The blurb on the site reads: Inspired by an article in The New York Times Magazine, the Gender Genie uses a simplified version of an algorithm developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, to predict the gender of an author.

I figured I'd give it a whirl with some of my stories, just for a lark.

The majority of my UNCLE and VigBean stories came up male. But the Pros stories were rated overwhelmingly female. All of which is pretty much the exact opposite of what I expected.

Interesting.

Comments

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Hee! I analyzed different bits of my stories and came up with the not very surprising result that my narrative is femanine, but my sex scenes are masculine. Also, Due South, Man From Uncle and Pros skewed with that division, but every one of my anime-fandom stories read as feminine, as did my 10th Kingdom stories.

Unsurprisingly, the most masculine bits were the first sex scene in "Phoenix" and "Wrong" in Pros. Surprisingly, however, the story I wrote in a deliberately crude "masculine" style for Due South recently -- "Stop me if you've heard this one" was divided by only ten words more in the masculine category. Huh.

I find it, as you say, interesting.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Analyzing different bits of stores is a great idea. Of course, I tried it with Velvet and Silk, one of the smuttiest Pros stories I've written so far, and it still came up female.