She’s a man, baby?
I’m not sure what to think about this, but the Gender Genie pegged the first two scenes of my novel AVATAR as written by a man. Go figure.
Lisa Paitz Spindler, Danger Gal
Jun
25
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I tried that on my blog a couple years ago. Got the same result.
Comment by Holly — June 26, 2008 @ 9:45 am
Oh Lisa! And I thought you were so rugged!
Well, _we_ all know you’re an ickle pwetty girgle.
Comment by Scott — June 26, 2008 @ 10:43 am
I wonder what’d happen if you submitted text with nothing but the word “woman” written over and over again…?
Comment by Heather — June 26, 2008 @ 9:42 pm
I tried it by submitting the word “woman” 384 times. The analysis came back as “gender unkown!” See the screencap here. That graphic makes me giggle.
Comment by Lisa — June 26, 2008 @ 9:58 pm
Snort! I wonder what linguistic criteria they’re basing that on…
Comment by Corbie — June 27, 2008 @ 8:18 am
“gender unknown”? What a crock!
Comment by Heather — June 28, 2008 @ 8:18 pm