{"id":659,"date":"2008-12-11T16:05:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/?p=659"},"modified":"2008-12-11T16:12:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:12:43","slug":"gender-bending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2008\/12\/11\/gender-bending\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Bending"},"content":{"rendered":"

www.GenderAnalyser.com<\/a> says that it “uses artificial intelligence” to determine whether a blog is written by a man or a woman. Intrigued, I immediately submitted the blog you see before you. Gender Analyser correctly guessed the gender of the blog as male, by a healthy margin of 60%. Next, I submitted my other blog, These Are Songs<\/a> to the procedure. Result: Gender Analyser thinks I\u2019m a woman! Actually, the assessment was 50-50 male to female, but leaning female. So actually I\u2019m more of a prose androgyne, bending genders like a blogging glam-rocker, the Marc Bolan of WordPress. <\/p>\n

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Barely had I had time to absorb this information than my confidence in my masculinity was further undermined by the following thought: I only write half of this blog. If my writing is 50% woman, as shown by the These Are Songs analysis, then that means that only a small proportion of the manliness of Tuppenceworth is provided by me, the slack all taken up by Simon \u201cHe-man\u201d McGarr. Sure enough, an analysis of his collected Tuppenceworth musings comes to a beer-swilling, toolbelt-wearing, not-asking-for-directions 70%. My own collected Tuppenceworthing is\u2026wait a minute, it\u2019s 60%, the same as the average. This is reassuring. Though less masculine than Simon, I am at least comfortably over the hermaphrodite line. But why am I more masculine here than when I write about songs? Do I pursue more typically male topics? <\/p>\n

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Actually, now that I think of it, I have written about football once or twice. But those posts tend to focus on the TV analysis, rather than the game itself. Once, I even wrote about football poetry<\/a>, surely a less than blokish angle on the beautiful game. To get a grip on just how male I can be when I tap out a blog post, I ran the test on my contributions to Super Euro Soccer Party<\/a>, Fustar\u2019s blog of the European Championships of earlier this year. My collected works came in at a grizzled and frankly disturbing 99%. I\u2019m not sure I want to be that masculine. Even Twenty Major<\/a> is only an effeminate 55%. The only blog I could find with a similar profile was Feministe<\/a>, which is 99% female. I took a look around, and suddenly I didn\u2019t feel too bad about my 50% rating. If being 99% anything <\/em>leads to comment threads like this<\/a>, maybe I\u2019m better off neither one nor t\u2019other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"www.GenderAnalyser.com says that it “uses artificial intelligence” to determine whether a blog is written by a man or a woman. Intrigued, I immediately submitted the blog you see before you. Gender Analyser correctly guessed the gender of the blog as male, by a healthy margin of 60%. Next, I submitted my other blog, These Are Songs to the procedure. Result: Gender Analyser thinks I\u2019m a woman! Actually, the assessment was 50-50 male to female, but leaning female. So actually I\u2019m more of a prose androgyne, bending genders like a blogging glam-rocker, the Marc Bolan of WordPress. Barely had I had time to absorb this information than my confidence in my masculinity was further undermined by the following thought: I only write half of this blog. If my writing is 50% woman, as shown by the These Are Songs analysis, then that means that only a small proportion of the manliness of Tuppenceworth is provided by me, the slack all taken up by Simon \u201cHe-man\u201d McGarr. Sure enough, an analysis of his collected Tuppenceworth musings comes to a beer-swilling, toolbelt-wearing, not-asking-for-directions 70%. My own collected Tuppenceworthing is\u2026wait a minute, it\u2019s 60%, the same as the average. This is reassuring. Though less masculine than Simon, I am at least comfortably over the hermaphrodite line. But why am I more masculine here than when I write about songs? Do I pursue more typically male topics? Actually, now that I think of it, I have written about football once or twice. But those posts tend to focus on the TV analysis, rather than the game itself. Once, I even wrote about football poetry, surely a less than blokish angle on the beautiful game. To get a grip on just how male I can be when I tap out a blog post, I ran the test on my contributions to Super Euro Soccer Party, Fustar\u2019s blog of the European Championships of earlier this year. My collected works came in at a grizzled and frankly disturbing 99%. I\u2019m not sure I want to be that masculine. Even Twenty Major is only an effeminate 55%. The only blog I could find with a similar profile was Feministe, which is 99% female. I took a look around, and suddenly I didn\u2019t feel too bad about my 50% rating. If being 99% anything leads to comment threads like this, maybe I\u2019m better off neither one nor t\u2019other.","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}