I write like a girl

I’d read about this a while back, but just rediscovered a link to it. It’s the [Gender Genie!](http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html)  Throw any text at it and will decide if a male or female wrote it. Apparently.

Looking around my laptop for a good sample of my writing ability, I found a major chunk of my book. A few thousand words in a chapter, nicely non-fictional in nature. After some churning, it came back and told me that . Goodness me.

For vindication, and to soothe my easily wounded masculinity, I grabbed the previous blog entry here, and threw that at it instead (after removing the Pogues lyrics – while alcohol-soaked rambling is not solely the domain of men, we seem to go to the trouble of writing it down more often). Whew. That one came out strongly male. Of course, I was on about horse racing, which might have swayed the results somewhat.