Young Writers Society

I was using stumble upon, just wasting time, when I came across this:

http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php

Essentially, it claimed that this thing would identify my gender based on a piece of writing by me. I immediately posted a short story I had written some time ago in.

It then said that I was male.

Excited, I continued. All my short stories came out male.

Wait...what about my novel?

I posted each individual chapter. I began to recognize a pattern - in most chapters where my female characters had particularly dominant roles, it incorrectly said that I was female.

Then I got the idea of posting my entire novel. Well, what's been written so far.

I don't recommend it. I'm lucky my computer didn't crash.

Anyway...

The entire novel was male, overall.

Gender Genie works by identifying key words - commonly used words, like "the", "and", and "not". Some give points to female, some give points to male. The reason for the pattern I mentioned above is that "she" and "her" are among female words. (Strangely, "he" and "his" are not male words)

XD I put in my college essay and it told me I'm a dude.

Wow, that's really fascinating. I've never really thought men and women wrote that differently. I notice that certain genres have more men or women writing them (Romance, Action) but I never would be able to guess the gender of an author if I didn't know already. Women sometimes write more "feminist" stories without females conforming to traditional gender roles, but in this day and age men are kinda pretty down with equality too, so I'm not sure either. Interesting.

I put in a story where my MC was a male, and it's from his point of view and it told me I was female! Gosh darn it.

A lot of my blog entries and most of my NaNo chapters said Female but five or six of the chapters said Male. It was interesting. It reminded me that I need to go back and edit my NaNo...

This looks very interesting... I'm putting something up. It called me male... I'm offended... And then, I put up two more pieces. It seems that whenever I write fiction, I'm female, but I'm male when I write nonfiction. Cool.

Woo! My blog entries are female!

That's a good thing, I think.

Tried a couple of works...

Poem with male persona: male but only just.
Romance story extract: highly female.
Ghost Writer section one: highly female.
Ghost Writer section two: female but only just.
A short war story: strongly male.
A mystery with a male main character: highly female.
Blog entry one: female but only just.
Blog entry two: highly female.
The YWS Wedding Chat log (:p): highly female.

Haha, my fiction is male, or only just female XD

I put in five of my short stories. It said four were female and one was male. Haha.

Funny stuff... I was doing some of my "Mutts" series:

Most were "female", regardless of what gender the POV might have been supposed to be. I actually find that kind of disappointing, since some of them are my most "male" pieces. But hey, at least it does work in guess my real gender!

One "Mutts" was a fictional newspaper article, but I put it in as "nonfiction", since that's what it is supposed to read as... It came out as "male," when my fictional author (I have the name and everything in the article) is supposed to be female... Hmm.

Very interesting.

~GryphonFledgling

Barack Obama's inaugural address is male. So is his election night victory speech, but just barely.

I put in three different blog entries and they all came back as Male.

That's pretty scary.

My short story came out female. Hmm, okay.
My Great Expectations essay came out very male! I'm glad. Does that mean I didn't overwrite, wasn't too frilly? Or am I just sexist towards my own gender? :S
Regardless, at least it's evident I'm not stuck in a rut, as far as writing goes.

The first chapter to my new novel came out female! Though I use a lot of frilly stuff so I expected that much!

~Angel