All Guy

On the advice of reviewer Michael Wells, I sent a recent block entry through the Gender Genie. I chose Bolivia IV: response (Tue, Oct 28, below), believing it to be one of my longer entries of late. With a total word-count of 316, this selection scored 401 on the Female Scale and 856 on the Male Scale.

The GB Poet entry is more problematic. If I only cut & paste his words, the Male/Female Scale are about equal — only about 3-4 points on either side of 300 each. If I include my comment (which raises the word count to 357), the entry scores as 260 Female and 597 Male.

It occurs to me there may be some sexual prejudice at work here. In other words, shorter passages may score as Male because men are stereotypically more laconic than women.