Do you blog like a girl?

My latest blog post scores 110 on the female chart and 111 on the male chart... seems I just scraped through.

I would certainly hope so, since I am in fact female, and there is nothing "wrong" with blogging or doing anything else "like a girl."

It thinks I blog like a man.

Not quite sure how to take that... :)

I tried three separate articles from my blog. I thought I was a boy twice, and a girl once, but I'm not surprised at that. I've got a mouth like a truck driver.

I'm confused how "and", "was", and "where" are feminine keywords. Do men not use compound sentences? Also "her" and "she" made one of my posts female, though I don't think that was warranted since I was writing about a female singer/songwriter.

I blog like a narcoleptic tree sloth.

Apparently I blog like a "he-man" or "stud", depending on what test material I use.

I don't blog. So what does that make me?

I scored a certain female (Female Score: 1034, Male Score: 744). In fact I am male. Very male. A former soldier. While I readily (and happily) admit to being well in touch with the "feminine side'" of my personality, my mannerisms, speech and other characteristics are definitely masculine according to all who know me.

So why does this test think I'm a female? I believe the test authors make some fundamentally flawed assumptions which are actually quite egregious to my way of thinking. By scoring certain words as "feminine" or "masculine" they are actually only scoring the subject matter of the topic based on the assumption that women talk about some things more often than men do and vice versa.

While this may very well be true (and I think it is), it is fairly absurd to take any particular statement and label it masculine or feminine. It is like saying that since today is a sunny day, it must be Summer. While in most climes Winter may have more cloudy days on average than Summer, the fact that the sun is shining on any particular day has absolutely nothing to do with the season at hand.

Likewise, the words that are necessary to describe any particular event or emotion cannot be labeled as masculine or feminine; they are gender neutral in all cases.

The text I chose to rate was my personal description of my father's death. Any human reading the text I submitted would pretty much determine the writer is male based on the overall content and descriptive nature of the testimony. The test, choosing to reflect only on the context, had no clue. What really sinks the validity of this "test" is that it is widely assumed (correctly, I believe) that men and women discuss emotional events such as a death of a loved quite differently most of the time. This test, however, can't even parse that.

To further test my hypothesis, I submitted the above text to the "gender genie." The content of the text above is mostly technical and academic in nature. Not hard to guess what sex the "gender genie" thought the writer was ... yep, you guessed it: Male (male = 615, female = 215).

Of course (he says with tongue in cheek) we all know men are *so* much technically and academically adept than women, right?

This test is seriously flawed, based on some outmoded and silly assumptions held by its' authors.

Interesting to see someone try and make an algorithm out of this. I remember perusing erotic blogs, and racking my brain to try and figure out with at least some certainty whether the author was a male or female. Eventually you start to notice telling differences between male and female writing.

I tried six of the articles I've written on Newsvine. Four times it said I was a female and twice it said I was a male.

I tried a few briefer pieces, which showed me pretty clearly male, but it says it works best on writing over 500 words. So I plugged in my old Euston NV Manifesto, to grab something long enough, and I am about 3/5ths male.

Reminds me of the old Spark Gender Test. Take it to see whether you're male or female! Based on questions like "Which word is grosser: Moist or Used?" It tells me, "Statistically speaking, you are a man—whether you know it or not." Though they're only 8% sure in my case. I think I'm getting feminine as I age.

Djehuty, I love you guy but this is a little flakey. I put in a sample of three sentences. Based on these words: be, no, and, many, was...it determined I was mostly female. Come'on.

It says I am a girl - that may be because the article I copied and pasted had the word 'vagina' in it 8 times.

Almost everything I gave it said I was male. grrrrr....

The exception was a blog post about macaroni and cheese.

My thesis draft came out split incredibly close. 5297 fem / 5275 male.... I deleted one instance of the word with and it switched genders....how completely ridiculous.

I'm amused :)

Female Score: 150
Male Score: 142

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

Submitted passage:

I was just discussing this with the owner of the comic shop I patronize. He told me about being at a local Magic the Gathering(tm) convention when a couple of big Samoans came rushing in and started punching heads at random, for unknown reasons. When one of them came running at him (he's about 6'4" or so) he threw a chair at him, then caught him in the legs of another and pushed him toward the door. At that point the larger attendees began to react and the three invaders took off. If someone had been armed, what would have happened there?

I blog like a girl, apparently. On the other hand, I'm pretty certain that it noted the word "hers" inside the word "others" (3 times) -- so I'll take it with a grain of salt. (I searched, and the word "hers" didn't otherwise show up.)

I plan on inserting more cock into my articles in the future, though -- just to be safe.

This question can be answered pretty simply. When you blog, do you listen to an iPod or an iPod mini?

Me and a couple of friends played with that piece of garbage years ago. I don't know whether it's our individual writing styles, but it dithered on one of us and got the other two dead wrong every time.

Blog like a girl? Lawd, no.

Ouch!

Damn. (Just broke a nail.)

Whether the assumptions are flawed or not I wouldn't hazard a guess.

But I found it interesting that the few articles I tested that registered 'female' were all the ones where I was intentionally trying to get in touch with my 'feelings' (yuck!). As some of you are aware, this is something I've been working on lately, with mixed results. All of my serious news pieces came out male.

The exception was my article on the Pussycat Dolls, which came out female.

???

Right. The assumptions are definitely flawed.

Apparently This is a test is female, while five paragraphs of lorem ipsum is male.

According to the test, my article about meeting Richard Gere is female. My article about Tibetan folk dances is male. Go figure.