Gender Genie is on, not in the bottle

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The Gender Genie is Goofier than Barbara Eden. About as laughable as Straightacting.com. But to the beginning . . .

Skimming through my Live Journal friends list I saw and couldn't resist trying the Livejournal Gender Tool.

Total words: 12346
Masculine Points: 23174, Masculinity: 62%
Feminine Points: 13820, Femininity: 38%
richardevanslee is probably male

It read the twelve thousand words on my Live Journal page.Didn't offer a word analysis.

Then I visited the Gender Genie.

Entry: Daddy was a bastard

Words: 1509
Female Score: 3122
Male Score: 1588
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

I used the feminine word 'him' twenty times. I was writing about my Daddy who was very much a him. Gender Genie is heterosexist since gay people would refer often to their same-sex partners and dates.

Entry: The Right Reverend Frederick Eikerenkoetter, Th.B., D.Sc.L., Ph.D.

Words: 663
Female Score: 556
Male Score: 1081
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

I owe my butchness to my frequent use of the word 'the.' (Need to clean that prose up, eh?)

Entry: Praise the Lord and pass the KY

Words: 775
Female Score: 643
Male Score: 1579

Still a guy. More 'the' and I never used girlie words like 'so,' 'am,' 'actually' or 'everything.'

Gender Genie says it has been right about two-thirds of the time. Even if I hadn't worked in market research / polling I'd have to admit that most people are just clichιs. Does anybody think tops and bottoms have different prose styles? Bisexuals? Pansexuals? Asexuals?

Well it was a way to waste fifteen minutes.

Gender Genie

Richard | December 14, 2003 •
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Thanks for the tip on the Gender genie. I corrected a sample paragraph in one try, although it took three trys to correct this here entry. I copied off the table of man/fem words, taped one to my monitor, as well as have one for my word processor & one for old typewriter.

This will improve my writing.

Posted by: Dick | September 4, 2004 7:15 PM

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Feel free to share your feelings about Gender Genie is on, not in the bottle. Please stick to the theme of the entry. Disagreement is fine. Homophobia, racism, and kindred expressions of hatred will be deleted. This site is one of my hobbies. I genuinely enjoy hearing from people and hate moderating or killing comments. Forthright disagreement is fine as long as it is civil.
My thanks,
Richard

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