Gender Guesser

[XerXesXu]

It would be interesting to do a kind of male/female "Turing test" where men and women deliberately attempted to write like someone from the opposite gender and to see if they could fool readers. My guess is they could, and it wouldn't be that difficult. My guess, too (and all of this is just silly guessing) is that women writers could impersonate men writers better than vice versa. It's not hard to sound like a man.

It's what a lot of people use the internet for.

 

[SimonDoom]

It's what a lot of people use the internet for.

I suspect you are right. I wonder how much of it happens here at Literotica.

 

[PBAnnie]

I suspect you are right. I wonder how much of it happens here at Literotica.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

 

[ElectricBlue]

It would be interesting to do a kind of male/female "Turing test" where men and women deliberately attempted to write like someone from the opposite gender and to see if they could fool readers. My guess is they could, and it wouldn't be that difficult. My guess, too (and all of this is just silly guessing) is that women writers could impersonate men writers better than vice versa. It's not hard to sound like a man.

I'm inclined to think a close read of content would give you enough clues to spot gender, especially if an author had a fair sized body of work and you could see their repeated tropes. I don't think you'd need to be a rocket scientist, once you'd read half a dozen of mine, to know that I'm male - because I write about women all the time with what I'd say was a male gaze.

But people dropping in on their first story of mine, with no introduction - a few have thought I was a woman, mainly because of the intimacy and empathy in my stories. It seems I fooled the gender spotter bot, too, with my word usage.

I stumbled on this story in a very roundabout way, so knew absolutely nothing about the author. Was really surprised to find out it was written by a man, I was 150% sure it was a female writing

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Now, what I would like to know is, where are all those other 70 genders?

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm inclined to think a close read of content would give you enough clues to spot gender, especially if an author had a fair sized body of work and you could see their repeated tropes. I don't think you'd need to be a rocket scientist, once you'd read half a dozen of mine, to know that I'm male - because I write about women all the time with what I'd say was a male gaze.

But people dropping in on their first story of mine, with no introduction - a few have thought I was a woman, mainly because of the intimacy and empathy in my stories. It seems I fooled the gender spotter bot, too, with my word usage.

We have different writing styles but I think of us as alike that way -- middle-aged guys who unapologetically enjoy the male gaze toward women. We both love women. On the one hand, I'm not surprised that the program read your writing style as "female," but on the other hand it's totally obvious to me from reading your stuff that you're male. I think that's true of my style as well. But I suspect if we wanted to that both of us could write in a "female" style that disguised our gender. I'm working on a story like that right now, told in 1st person POV by a female character, and I hope I pull it off.

 

[PBAnnie]

But I suspect if we wanted to that both of us could write in a "female" style that disguised our gender. I'm working on a story like that right now, told in 1st person POV by a female character, and I hope I pull it off.

If the word "cute" doesn't appear in your story with significant frequency it will be easy to spot the gender of the author.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1837

 

[MillieDynamite]

If the word "cute" doesn't appear in your story with significant frequency it will be easy to spot the gender of the author.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1837

The study was interesting to read. However, wasn't the study based on blogs not fiction?

I try to minimize the repetitive phrases and words in my stories. Does doing that, throw of the calculations. I looked at the verb, adverb, pronoun, and noun stats but not sure in fiction that would apply either. Does blogging correlate to the writing of fiction?

What I mean is, when write what a man says, don't we want him to sound like a man? Likewise, don't we try to make our women sound like women? And really isn't it more the way we say something, being a man or woman, than the words we chose. Well, other than like titty pink. I'd never use the phrase to describe anything, I've heard men use it often.

Just a question.

 

[PBAnnie]

And really isn't it more the way we say something, being a man or woman, than the words we chose. Well, other than like titty pink. I'd never use the phrase to describe anything, I've heard men use it often.

Just a question.

Yes, men and women express themselves in different ways, both in the way they say things and in their preferred words.

(Yet another study, based on 10 million messages posted by 52,000 Facebook users) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0155885

Most language differed little across gender. However, topics most associated with self-identified female participants included friends, family, and social life, whereas topics most associated with self-identified male participants included swearing, anger, discussion of objects instead of people, and the use of argumentative language.

Language used more by self-identified females was interpersonally warmer, more compassionate, polite, and—contrary to previous findings—slightly more assertive in their language use, whereas language used more by self-identified males was colder, more hostile, and impersonal.

This paper had some cute/killer charts that indicate there are differences in the typical linguistics used by women and men (girls and boys?) My takeaway from the paper is that the bigger difference was in the preferred topics each gender talked about, and maybe that's why certain words are used more frequently by one gender over the other. Boys are more likely to talk about military armament, but I doubt that very many describe a howitzer as "cute" or "adorable."

I wonder if there would still be a difference in word usage or language construction if the two groups talked about the same topic.

 

[yowser]

While it is true I would never refer to my Lamborghini as 'cute' my descriptions when thinking about it might veer into 'feminine' warm and fuzzy categories of speech.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Fiona, in Burn Notice, talks lovingly about bombs, guns, and knifes. Adorable C4 is one example.

 

[PBAnnie]

Fiona, in Burn Notice, talks lovingly about bombs, guns, and knifes. Adorable C4 is one example.

https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/48/66/1350152395-1_bill_murray_a.jpg

 

[MillieDynamite]

https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/48/66/1350152395-1_bill_murray_a.jpg

Poor little gofer.

 

[YDB95]

Tried several of my stories, most came out male for informal, female for formal. I am male in real life, but I have often been told I come across as feminine online. Which is fine with me.

 

[AlexBailey]

Genre: Formal
Female = 2668
Male = 2494
Difference = -174; 48.31%
Verdict: Weak FEMALE