Apparently I write like a man

But, unsurprisingly, I have a theory about this!

Someone pointed me to a link recently called the gender genie, which purports to be able to analyse the gender of an author.

I put in a couple of samples from here - playing around with whole posts and partial posts.

Every time I put in a whole post, it came up as male - the longer the post, the greater the difference between the scores. If I just put in parts of posts, it varied a bit (it does say it works better on longer posts, and this makes sense, since it works on a statistical analysis of how many times you use particular words).

I also put in a few posts from another blog I keep, a personal one just for me and my friends, one that tells a few stories about my real life, with the occasional rant.

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Keep in mind that the posts on that blog are all pretty short, but still. The narrative stories came up as female. More or less, anyway, as the scores of "female" words to "male" words were pretty close. But every post I put in was female. As opposed to every full post here coming up as male, some of them pretty strongly.

So, you want to know my theory? The more "narrative" a post, the more "female" it looks. The more "political", the more "male". Because women tell stories, and men are involved in politics. Of course.

Ha.

Such a joke. Such an absolute crock.

Wonder how this post shows up?

(answer: VERY strongly male. Anyone surprised? That's an analysis from the beginning of the post to the end of that question.)

Oh, and if you're interested, here are the keywords:
Feminine: with, if, not, where, be, when, your, her, we, should, she, and, me, myself, hers, was
Masculine: around, what, more, are, as, who, below, is, these, the, a, at, it, many, said, above, to

Not sure exactly how it uses these, because some of them apparently add 0 to the score. But apparently, if you use articles at all, you're a man. If you refer to women at all, or to yourself, you're a woman. But anyone might be writing about men.

Ahhh, I could go on and on. I suspect that some of these things are actually true, for cultural reasons (eg men are always, always, ALWAYS in the news, so everyone writes about them, but women are more likely to be involved in some sort of "special women's interest" story, which "everyone knows" only women write...).

Grrr.