*laughs*

[maderr]

So this gender genie is supposed to be able to anaylze a piece of writing and determine whether the author is male or female

>_> <_< It said I'm male. I'm not quite sure what this means. It is REALLY hard to keep a straight face when your desk is right beside your boss' desk.

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[goofyrobo.livejournal.com]

It thinks you are a gay man. I mean, you have all those boys touching and stuff.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it would have made more sense if they'd used that in their precious algorithm. Instead, I'm manly because I use 'the' a lot.

[goofyrobo.livejournal.com]

.......

That is bizzare....

[audaxfemina.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, apparently, I use a lot of masculine words. Like "the" is masculine. Numbnuts.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm confounded as to how frequent use of the word 'the' is masculine. wtf?

[audaxfemina.livejournal.com]

I think it's just life trying to tell me that I'm male again. I don't have the right equipment for that... :-p

[mailechan.livejournal.com]

I have no clue what this thing is using to decide words are male or female. WAS is female while IS is male? And how do they decide the points?

(I just tested the snippit I wrote for you, and it was 414 female and 447 male. *snickers*)

[skylark97.livejournal.com]

I think I'll just use that as proof that aside from secondary sex characteristics and chromsomes, you can get in trouble saying "this and this are female traits" while "that and that are male traits". (In fact, you can get into troubel with the chromosomes and the ss characteristics because there are genetic disorders that will make you seem like one sex when your chromosomes say you're another, and things like steroids and surgery can give you ss characteristics you may not have been born with...) I tried six different things. Three fiction bits, and three blog bits. Four of 'em said I was male, two said I were female. I say I don't particularly like it when something tries to shove me into a defined gender role. ^-^;;

Still, the way that they decide that? Freaking hilarious. Most random word association ever. I wonder what it would give me if I typed the word penis a hundred times? >:3

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Ah, you make me happy ^_^ I think when I have a large chunk of free time I'm just going to slaughter their stats and force'em to either scrap the project and start over.

And yeah, I hate assigning gender roles. According to all of them, I'm a complete failure at being female (except my chest, which is so notmale it's ridiculous).

What would it say if you typed penis a 100 times? If you don't do it, I'm probably dorky enough to try it once I get home. Ah, I love being permanently a child.

[mewbert.livejournal.com]

All is gravy, baby. It said I was male, too.

Pffft. I WISH, gender genie. I wish.