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timepiececlock) wrote2003-11-09 09:17 pm
timepiececlock) wrote2003-11-09 09:17 pm
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Apparently my inner Buffy-voice is very masculine, and my inner Spike-voice is very feminine.
Probably not that big a surprise, with these characters. How do I know? From![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nautibitz's journal I got this link:
http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html
--which rates any text you post as masculine or feminine, depending on key words. Most of the worlds make little sense to me-- why should an article like "the" be used more by men?-- and I've found it to be right about 55% of the time, and wrong about 45% of the time, sometimes as close as this:
Female Score: 1186
Male Score: 1164
In the times where I scored "written by female," it was almost always very close, within 150 words. For the "written by male" scores it was anywhere from a 100 word difference to a 350 word difference.
What really struck me as interesting was the breakdown of the ratings. The prologue to my Spike-centric Cowboy Bebop fic got "male," whereas my BTVS Spike-centric fic "Red Letter Partings" got just barely "female." Other fics that were not character perspective driven but did include mostly male characters, such as "This Is Your Life," got male. Some other Spike-centric fics both male or female, and my three Buffy 1st-person POV fics got male.
Weirdly, ALL of my Vegita -1st-person POV fics got male, as did my one Vash the Stampede fic. My Heero Yuy & GW fics seem mostly feminine.
...
I think I understand why this is breaking down the way it is. On the list of "female" words you can see "she" and "her", but the "male" side _doesn't_ have "him" or "he," which makes a lot of things female by default. When I write about girls it most often assumes I am a girl.
I think that's a pretty silly assumption.
Probably not that big a surprise, with these characters. How do I know? From
nautibitz's journal I got this link: http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html
--which rates any text you post as masculine or feminine, depending on key words. Most of the worlds make little sense to me-- why should an article like "the" be used more by men?-- and I've found it to be right about 55% of the time, and wrong about 45% of the time, sometimes as close as this:
Female Score: 1186
Male Score: 1164
In the times where I scored "written by female," it was almost always very close, within 150 words. For the "written by male" scores it was anywhere from a 100 word difference to a 350 word difference.
What really struck me as interesting was the breakdown of the ratings. The prologue to my Spike-centric Cowboy Bebop fic got "male," whereas my BTVS Spike-centric fic "Red Letter Partings" got just barely "female." Other fics that were not character perspective driven but did include mostly male characters, such as "This Is Your Life," got male. Some other Spike-centric fics both male or female, and my three Buffy 1st-person POV fics got male.
Weirdly, ALL of my Vegita -1st-person POV fics got male, as did my one Vash the Stampede fic. My Heero Yuy & GW fics seem mostly feminine.
...
I think I understand why this is breaking down the way it is. On the list of "female" words you can see "she" and "her", but the "male" side _doesn't_ have "him" or "he," which makes a lot of things female by default. When I write about girls it most often assumes I am a girl.
I think that's a pretty silly assumption.