yeah, I'm displacing and anxious, why do you ask?

[ritaxis]

Scalzi went and did the gender genie, and was smug about the answers he got -- he put in something he wrote from a female perspective and got a female answer -- so naturally, since I ought to be doing a dozen other things, I did too, and got the result that my fiction -- four samples -- came out male, and my blog entry, female.

Well, I've been writing about men, here lately.

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[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Every time I do an internet gender thingie, I turn out male. This is not really surprising to me because when I used an androgynous name on AOL, people thought I was a guy. Back when I worked, some guys thought I was a lesbian because of the way I talked. Strange that there are male and female ways to write and talk.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

See, even though the thing is apparently 72% accurate in the kinds of samples they're getting, I don't believe it's true over all the spread of writing, because a whole lot of writing is very specifically conventional. You're not going to get much difference in the use of "the" and "where" when you're dealing with scientific reports, for example.