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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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you lot are no fun at all! I expected peole to try out various stories and tell me the gender of the authors!
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Registered: August 2004
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I've been meaning to try this.
I tried a chapter of something I'm working on, a gay fiction story. Harrumph. It thinks I'm female. Oddly, I've had people on regular message boards assume that about me too. Excuse me, I'm not, nor do I act or sound particularly feminine. Oh well. I know at least one pro. author whose work makes it seem like she's male.
A chapter of gay fiction, part of Perry & Jesse. Again, it thinks it's by a female writer, by a 3 to 2 margin. No.
I think I see why. It's using very common words for keywords. Ideally, it would use more complex words, or specific words, to make its guess. -- I think I'll have to check the article from which they got the idea, to see what the rationale is.
Hmm. What would it say for a mainstream fictional piece? For a female writer with a masculine style? Just what defines a "masculine" or "feminine" style? Heh, and I think I can figure out what constitutes a gay fictional style. 
OK, now I'm curious. Have to explore this more, sometime later, though.
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Nothing much to say...i couldn't fool the damn thing, i entered paragraphs from everything i ever wrote and stored on my hard drive and every time it said male by a landslide.
It's interesting to note though, i act rather straight or at least i think i do, but i have a straight friend who acts very stereotypicaly gay and when he tested samples of his writting it said female everytime. I'm not sure what this means, if it means anything at all.
By the way, thanks for posting this Timmy, you couldn't have known it but it just happens that i'm doing a presentation on "the differences between male and female writting" in psycology next week and this site is a very useful resource. If nothing else, it might impress my Prof at least a little bit.
Pyro.
Do what you love, changing the world is incidental.
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I didn't want to offend anyone, I used stuff off the site.
You'll have to guess who writes the most femminine out of smith, D'artagnon, and Me, or just do it yourself.  )
Time is lifes currency, spend it well.
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Location: currently So Cal
Registered: May 2002
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I tried a chapter from Lion's Den and the entire text from both Stangers in Town and In the Secret Space of Dreams. The "Genie" was correct that the author is male for Lion's Den and Strangers, but guessed that Secret Space was written by a female.
Think good thoughts,
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