The gender genie again, damnit

[ritaxis]

Every so often somebody comes trolling around with a link to the Gender Genie.

(It's hereHere's my results. I got bored after six pieces of fiction I wrote

Comments

[pantryslut]

The Gender Genie tends to think that my fiction is female and my nonfiction is male, which makes me giggle.

[ritaxis]

That's sort of boggling, considering what your nonfiction is about.

[ellarien]

I have a novel draft lying around with alternate male and female POV chapters, and I was amused to find that the female one came out more female and the male one more male, though only slightly in either case. In my own persona, I tend to come out about 50/50 on the online quizzes I've tried; I suspect working in the sciences may have something to do with that.

[ritaxis]

You'd think so, but I never write scientific papers and I get 50/50 too.`The algorithm for this one is probably as good as it gets: they just study the frequency of certain words, and byu certain words I mean stuff like "the" and "and:" the only theoretical mumbojumbo they come up with is after the fact, having to do with concreteness and something else.

This time I was lead to it because it was tossed off casually as support for some obscure point being made about science fiction being properly a man's field. Along with some crap about the hardness of the science fiction the person prefers and there being "a reason why engineers are mostly male." (another poster said, trenchantly:"there is, and it's male engineers.")

Not to mention that the "hardness" of the "hard science fiction" I come across seems rather limp to me, often. They might get their angle of momentum right, but they don't know beans about biology, often.