Gender issues

[desperance]

The Gender Genie thinks I'm female. No matter what I feed it, from delicate short stories to hard-action novel scenes to blog entries, I'm a girl.

Ah, me.

Comments

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

The Genie thinks I'm female, too. Questions of methodology aside, I'm not surprised- many people on lj have told me thry thought I was female when first encountering me.

I'm very amused by the category choices- fiction, nonfiction, blog entry.

[fastfwd.livejournal.com]

Cool!

Let's go shopping!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Umm, you do realise I can shop for England? And have done, in places far and near, and never yet disgraced my country...?

You're on.

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

I'm always male with this kind of test, so I guess we balance each other out. :-)

[davidbarnett.livejournal.com]

I'm highly masculine, according to that. Which, to be honest, I find a little surprising.

Still. Anyone up for a spot of marlin fishing, followed by some boxing and then maybe the Pamplona bull run?

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I'm female, too. Girlier than samarcand.

The lists of key words are a bit baffling. (Perhaps we should ask Mary about it?)

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad. It thinks Kit Marlowe is a girl too.

Both the real one, and mine.

Both Shakespeares are men, though....

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Consistency is good. Means you're getting the voice right, to the extent of using all the right trigger-words in the right proportions. Or however their metric works.

Have you read Kipling's Dayspring Mishandled" (http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LimitsRenewals/dayspring.html)? Can't say why you should, for fear of spoilers, but it is not irrelevant to getting the voice right.

[julesjones]

It always thinks I'm male, which probably explains in part why so many people in erotic romance circles persist in thinking of me as male even though I have explicitly come out as a girlie more than once.

[jemck.livejournal.com]

I don't normally do these things... but it consistently says I'm a bloke, but only just, by a very small margin.

Which is interesting given the daft rumour that circulated some years back about me not really existing but being a publisher's construct to cover a husband and wife writing team. On account of me writing in both male and female first person alternately through the Tales of Einarinn.

[tavishsdoll.livejournal.com]

I come out just about female in most cases, and tip over to slightly male with a couple of shorts, that interestingly have a female main character! And it's female I am - although according to this not always. Whaddayouknow!

Comment in questionable taste.

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

Does this mean I can ask you to have my babies?????

- Maggie.

Re: Comment in questionable taste.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I thought you'd had them already?

Re: Comment in questionable taste.

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

I have teenagers (a bit like having rabies) but nobody will take them. Not even with Green Shield Stamps, chiz.

Re: Comment in questionable taste.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

You never offered 'em to me. And that's spelled 'Chaz', stamps or otherwise.

Re: Comment in questionable taste.

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

Oops! Sorry, 'chiz' is from the Molesworth books - I forget that not everyone has read them! My bad, Chaz! Apologies.

[synedrian.livejournal.com]

Have you tried showing it your picture instead?

That said, it thinks I'm a guy. Wanna go on a date?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Always. You know this.

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

It pins me to the slide as male, which is okay. If it wasn't I'd have done something about it by now. Am I supposed to feel reasured by a computer program?

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

It not only thinks I'm male, it's not even close to balanced. The male score was almost 3x the female on my first go.

But this is not news, oh no.