Gender Genie - proof no one can tell

[icarus]

Okay, I am very consistently asked whether I'm a guy or a girl. I tried to keep it private more or less, because I was interested in whether or not people could tell from the stories.

The Gender Genie

According to this, my writing style is:

Skinny Dipping - Male.
A Deserving Man - Male.
Sex, Drugs and Death Eater Rock - Male.
Primer to the Dark Arts - Male.
Guy Talk - Male.
Beg Me For It - hold onto your hats -- Female?
At Fauntleroy & Diagon Alley - Female (not surprising).

So if you haven't been able to tell, well, neither can this program.

Comments

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

Hmph...when I did it, it said conclusively that I was female. Not that it was wrong mind you, it's just that I'm peeved that I was so...transparent.

Suppose I'll have to work harder at it. ^_^

[thywillbedone.livejournal.com]

When I did mine, it also got it right off the bat.

damn

[goseaward.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. All my stories were read as female. Not surprising, I suppose. *shrug* Those are interesting results, though, since it does look at sentence construction rather than vocab, topics, etc.

[guntar.livejournal.com]

Heh. It guessed female for all my stories. Which isn't surprising, really, even though it's wrong.

[cursive.livejournal.com]

I've said elsewhere that I thought this test was ridiculous as it basically equates objectivity with maleness. But the genie couldn't decided about me either, although it tended to female.

I would have said you were definitely female, as you say you're interested in that.

[simmysim.livejournal.com]

well... i always assumed you were female. but i do that with pretty much all fanfic writers, so... ^^;;;;;;

[capitu]

I thought you were a guy until you said you tried waitressing so now I can tell. (with white to keep the mistery)

[mark356.livejournal.com]

I used to think you were male, because you write about them so well and write consistently about them, but that applies to just about every fanfiction writer on LJ. Also, Icarus in mythology was male. However, you were referred to by a few people as "her", and you have said nothing about your gender, so for the past few months I've thought you were female, but wasn't sure, and was wondering whether or not to ask you, because it woudl satisfy my curiosity, but also show that I'm concerned with gender, when I try to think that gender is only genetalia plus social construction. After all, how could you tell otherwise?

[venivincere]

Hmmm... I had mixed results with random paragraphs, but my complete stories were female. Very well, then.

I've always thought of you as someone I'd like to take on a date for coffee, regardless of gender. If you insist on keeping it secret, then I suppose we will be wearing paper bags over our heads and giant, shapeless muumuus. I'll remember to bring us both straws.

[tjstein.livejournal.com]

Primer to the Dark Arts was the first thing of yours that I read and I thought that you must be male. After reading your LJ, I'm not so sure...but have decided that it doesn't really matter. I'm surprised that Beg Me For It came up female...very odd as that seemed so very male.

I reckon...

[(Anonymous)]

I reckon you're female. In one of your journal entries, you wrote that you tried some "waitressing". If you were male, you would have written "waitering". Just one of those things that people write without thinking. Then again, you may have written "waitressing" purely to confuse people or for amusement factor...

I tried the test and it got my gender spot on, which is quite annoying, but what can I do? I'm not about to have a sex change just to see what happens lol.

~Lizard :)