The Gender Genie strikes again...

[agilebrit]

I was poking through some of my entries from last year and came across the one where I'd run my fics through the Gender Genie to see what my fic voice was doing, and got some interesting results. I decided to do it again with my longer fics (because doing it for the drabbles would just take too damb long), and got some interesting results.



Indispensible, Exquisite Cats: male. Since this is told from Spike's, Gunn's, and Angel's POV, this is a good thing.

Legolas' True Love: female.

Chicken Soup for the Old One's Soul: female. Since it's kind of a caretaking one, that fits. Gender stereotypes R us!

Retained Skills: female. Buh? It's a Xander fic. A short one. But, okay.

A Mess of Pottage: male for the first chapter, female for the remaining three. Strikes me as odd. But, I think one of the words it keys on is "her," and Spike is concerned about the Slayer, so he's focused on that, so I suppose it makes a weird kind of sense.

Grief Reconciled: female. Again I say Buh? Wes, Spike, and Illyria.

Remembrances and Plans: female. Dawn's POV, so that's cool.

Cold Comfort: male. Illyria's POV. Interesting.

Soulless, Evil Things: female, all four chapters. Mostly Buffy's POV, I guess, so, okay.

Blood Rite: female. Lots of Fred in there.

Aftermath: male. Gunn's POV. Yay!

New Beginnings: female. Wesley's POV. I don't get it. Again, the script has a thing about assigning "her" and "hers" to female writers, and since Wes in this story is trying to either save Fred or Lilah, then I guess it makes some sort of sense--and it also seems to think that "me" is a female word, and it's a first-person fic. So, the results are just a wee bit skewed for this one.

So, yet another exercise in geekiness from yours truly. Most of them female this time, and a few surprises.

Comments

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

hi, I'm over here on (belated) f-list exchange with faith_of_borg and wanted to thank you for the fascinating link. this actually made my day, because I put in a piece of male-POV original fic where I really like the voice, and it scanned as "male." my own writing scanned as pretty female, as did the Wesley Postcard Project (http://www.livejournal.com/users/karabair/137787.html) overall. But when I just used the cards where Wes was being more terse and less babbly, it turns out he IS male. cool stuff, thanks!

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Greetings and welcome! Definitely an interesting experiment.

I think I've seen you in passing, other places. Come on in, kick back, and have fun. :-)

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

PS -- maybe try your first person fic as a blog entry; that probably adjusts for the "me"s. also, I do think a Wesley first person would skew more toward "female," because he is a little wordy and circumlocutious. also, I wonder if this thing was developed with regard to American men? because I imagine English discourse styles would be a lot different