Hand Me My Y-Chromosome

It's okay. I run like a girl, and I get hell for that even from Frau Lobster. So you write like a girl. Good for you. You'll be good competition for Anne Tyler, Janet Evanovich, and J.K. Rowling. For that matter, after whining to the Washington Post until they basically retracted a negative review, I think John Irving must be a girl (in the worst possible way). Ani DiFranco wouldn't do that. Neither would Joyce Carol Oates, Toni Morrison or a bunch of other chicks who apparently have bigger balls than Irving does...

Take it as a compliment. ;-)

Could be worse. I had a security guard call me mam for two weeks due to my hair, height, and thick coat.

Though it was funny to see him almost jump out of his skin when he heard my voice.

That is freaking awesome. You type like my husband does. That's funny as hell, and I always call him girly. LOL

I wouldn't worry about that. Apparently, I write like a girl too, and the particular piece that I pasted in was the first few paragraphs from a pretty hard-core misogynist!

<thinking-out-loud>
Mmm.. their algorithm seems to be based on hardcoded observations. I wonder if it could be improved into a statistical Bayesian approach.. It would imply creating two huge databases of male and female texts, and computing male/female probabilities by comparing the frequency of every word in your text to the frequency they appear in the male and female databases. Hmm...
</thinking-out-loud>

If you put a text by Shakespeare into it, would it say '1 million monkeys'?

Are you safe in Australia anymore?

Ah hahaha. I've always thought you wrote like a girl Max. You throw like a girl too. Nah, it is indeed something to be proud of. Your wife is a lucky lady to have someone who understands the intricacies of the female psyche so intimately. Your mother must have really raised you right.

Either that, or he spends too much time on the phone to his mother or something...

Bugger. Apparently it thinks I'm female too. I want a refund!

Hmm well umm maybe there something wrong with the thing? Have you tried putting in the whole book?

Aww, Max is a big girl :-)


cute ;-)

just sprinkle in words like pwned and 'you suck dick thicks'
and you'll be male ...
=p

does this mean your baby=a girl?
cause of course how could a GIRL(MAXINE BARRY) create a MALE baby.
muahah
just playing HOMIE!

(let me paste the above and see if its male or not)...

Words: 39

Female Score: 43
Male Score: 54

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

YOU ARE DAMN RIGHT! I DRIP MACHEESEMO!!!

Wait till your beloved gives birth, then you'll be so sleep deprived and covered in baby shite and upchuck for what seems like years (actually it will be years) that you'll really, really, miss being thought of as a girly writer...

Yeah, max is pretty cute for a girl.



.........what?

Just finished JG, loved it. Look forward to Max's (your?) other 2.

aug. 10 2005

I'M BACK!!!

You all thought you were rid of me, but I was just away on "vacation" with no access to the internets. I built houses for people who had none. Now I will be known to all as a better person, or at least I should be.

On a completely different subject(relating to Max's blog), all my blogs seem to be just barely masculine, but my Electrik Panda Wizard stories are very feminininininininimine(I have a feeling thats how max's child will say it). Yes Max, your child will mispronounce many words just like the kid in "Family Circus"(Best/worst comic ever).

Now time for me to lie...I..am...not...a...40...year...old...man...posing...as
...a...senior in ...high...school...I...am...really...17.
(pointless)

NOW TIME FOR THE STORY TO CONTINUE

Let's see, I can't even remember what was going on...so...Electrik the Panda dies saving the planet from almost certain destruction. Red Panda is annihilated. Mecha-walrus becomes ruler of the universe until the Proles rise up against his capitalistic ways. The End...or is it? Yes.

Well, I guess it's time to see if I write like a man or not.

Adam

The gender genie says I am a man...if only my father would feel the same way...:(

Adam

I thought this might interest some people.

Paul: i wrote this: so i'm just chilling out talking to this fab chick arianna we're cruising you know, on the information superhighway you know? so i've been writing tons of poetry its great.
Paul: *submits*
Ari: lol
Paul: my passage is way female =P
Paul: haha i'll recreate the masculine paragraph
Ari: okay
Ari: masc words: some, this, as, now, good. something, if, ever, is, the, well, in
Paul: YARGH I AM HUNGRY I WILL EAT BARBECUE, NO, EGGS, PORK, WASABI. I ENJOY SEX, FUCKING SLUTS FUCKASLUT YARGH. I HAVE A PENIS. I AM BUFF, BUFFER THEN YOUR BOYFRIEND BUFFER THEN BROTHER. I RULE. THOUSAND PUSHUPS I DO PUSHUPS EVERYDAY GO NOW PULLUPS WEIGHTLIGHTING GOGOGOGOGOGOGO
Ari: AHAHAHAHAHAAAHAA
Ari: "am" is feminine though
Paul: it came out feminine
Ari: heheheheheh

So Max, have you rushed out and bought a 4WD (with a "Support the Troops" bumper sticker of course) to compensate for your perceived lack of masculinity?

www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1436446.htm

Whoohoo! It thinks I write like a male when writing from my male character's POV, and female when writing from a girl's POV. Of course, I only tested two sections of text...

I kind of wonder how it decides females use one set of words, and males another. I could probably get insulted if I thought about it enough...

My stuff usually comes out masculine (which would be correct), but not always.

Is a small text, but still it sounds very female and motherly to me:

"You are as worthless as your father. I am ashamed that you came from my body. You will never be anything."

Something is wrong with the algorithm. I think it excludes heartless mothers from being female.

or something is wrong with my mother.

Yes, there's definitely something wrong with that algorithm. I know it's a simplified version of it, but if that's all there really is to it, then I'm highly disappointed with it. Don't take anything it says to heart, Max.

The gender genie is a bit dumb really. When I write in my journal it usually knows I'm female, but if I'm writing in a very clear, concise style, it always says I'm male. Probably because, you know, only guys ever write clearly?

Well I'm a girl and I write like a guy.

Hohum.

According to the Gender Genie, I write like a guy. I'll have to try out some fiction in there, though, to see my results.

Well, I'm a guy and I'm sure I write like a guy, but I have to test it yet. Not sure if I write much in English...