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[timaximus]

This page (http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html) consistently, based on long, short, and varied selections of this journal, thinks I write like a girl. It thinks Mortality and Mercy in Vienna was written by a lady. One of Alan Moore's bits in the Dave Sim Correspondance

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[dadafountain]

Female too. What's with this thing? I'm loving the fine print that says it "should be accurate 80% of the time".

It actually reminds me of a whole segment in a cultural anthropology class I took once, in which things like making eye contact, using mitigating words and phrases ("maybe", "I guess", etc), avoiding slang, and a handful of others (I recall that there were some outrageously arbitrary ones in addition to these) were dubbed "female conversational styles", apparently placing me among the most "female" people in the class. Riiiight. These things seem so arbitrary, and if they work for one tiny population of samples, as soon as one generalizes more, they lose even what little meaning they had to begin with.

[timaximus]

I'm just an interim* non/ex-Johnny, but yes, Cerebus (1-200-or-so) is great. I'm only as far as the end of Rick's Story, though, and I'm in no major hurry to start the rest. Eventually, perhaps.

*I hope.

[gillen]

So, people are keeping up the noble tradition of Johnnies who read Cerebus? Excellent. Of course, Sim lost me after the Ascension, but still...