h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Okay, love the internet. Lots of ways to waste time.

Like this:

http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html

It's the gender genie.
It will tell you if you write like a guy, or a girl. Basically just assigns a few keywords different point values, and adds up their frequency.

No big thing.

...but when you combine that site with, oh, say,

This one:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html

That's when the real magic starts.

Checkers speech: male
I have a dream? Female, turns out.

Nobody's perfect.

The second site is really cool, just stand alone. Cool to hear some of those speeches via mp3.

...and since I'm on the topic of both great speeches, and apparent differences between men and women,

everyone check out speech #84, by Science Fiction author Ursula Le Guin.

It was written back in 1983, but is still as true today as it was back then.

...That's probably one of the qualifications for becoming a great speech, anyway.

OK, I wasted too much time trying to fool it. Never did. Nuke, I even entered your blog here.

Guess what?

YOUR A MALE!

The only thing I can figure is that men use the word "the" alot. I don't know what that means...

Really liked the speech. Even though I was immediately attempting to categorise it into the feminist theories we've studied this year... can't help it.
Shame they didn't give us that, instead of some of those boring articles I never really read.

And I've tried that gender-detector thingy on my journal entries. A lot were female, but it also decided that quite a bunch of them were male. Including 'Way it goes'...
Guess I'm too weird for it. HA!

Heya Jay. Actually, many of my LJ entries end up being female. Eh.

I don't really think you can distill things down to male or female just by counting frequencies of words, but I can see their hearts are in the right place.

Like with the word 'the'.

Guys tend to be more detached, so write things as if they were describing it, so they tend to say 'the' this and 'the' that.

"Just the facts, ma'am."

But still, I say actually all the time, and thats a female point value word, so whatever. I just think it's kinda funny to look at some of those great speeches and see what the genie says.

Hey, LP! Way it goes...

Heya.

I don't know, they have some interesting stuff... like (another feminine word, apparently) in the 'feminine' section they have 'him', which makes sense, but I don't remember seeing 'her' on the 'masculine' section. Pretty neat to see the basic assumptions behind something like that.


I better shut up before I start bringing up Gender Theories all over again...

ooo, yeah. Heaven forbid we get some thread drift...

That's what this place is all about. I really don't know too much about gender theories.

Enlighten me.

The whole point of Gender Theory, as I've managed to gather while we were studying the whole lot of feminist theories, is to confuse the heck out of you.

The whole thing seems to based on 'Why's and 'Well, who said that-'s. And using a lot of big words. Judith Butler is very good at that. Last year I was trying to read an article of hers, and had to work with three dictionaries just trying to understand what she's saying... (no, I definitely _don't_ like Judith Butler!)

Anyway, the basic premise is that the whole gender thing is nothing but drag, an act you put on for society's sake - whether this act is a man acting like a (stereotypical) 'woman', or a man acting like a (stereotypical) 'man', or whatever. Nothing can be absolute. You think you're acting like yourself, and it's all just the indoctrinations society's put into you. They've got a whole deconstructionist question-every-single-bloody-thing method going on, so basically anything you try to say will eventually be taken apart, stood on its head and analysed into nothingness.

I hate Gender Theory.

Hey Nuke and Lady P!

On a side note, check out the speeches by Huey Long. He was the Governor of Louisiana and a U.S. Senator, and if not for an assassin's bullet, may have been our President.

Scary.

I'd vote for him.

"Share the wealth?"
Try "Share and Enjoy!"

...well, vote for him, or I'dve been the guy that shot him...

"Smile, you sonova ..."
RQG

I popped in a brief sampling of my writing, ... a 30-line synopsis of my life that I wrote once. There seems to be about a 70% chnace that I am male. (looks once more to be sure ...) I guess it works.

As to the whole gender theory, I quote a famous sailor, ... "I yam what I yam !"

I pasted the text of A1119098 (minus the footnotes) and got back a result of:

Female Score: 1518
Male Score: 1531

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

(For those that don't bother to follow links, I pasted in my account of giving birth!)