Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by bridge of love
try some of the sensitive stuff from the politics board you did a few weeks back
http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html

If you type in "I am a woman" the genie thinks you are a man. Anyone care to analyze that?

Ps. Every phrase of mine from the boards that I have entered into the thing results in a female finding. Guess it has me pegged.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Try The Gender Genie. It takes a passage of text and tells you, based on an algorithm, the gender of the author.

So far, I've been able to determine that:

ThrashersFan = F
Taxwonk = M
Connect the Dots = F
W.W.L.D. = F
Coltrane = M
Purse Junkie = F
SEC_Chick = F
RT = M
Gwinky = F
Shape Shifter = M
reba = F
Paig's Sock = F
Less = F
Me = F

It's uncanny!

I'm late getting to this but it's a quiet afternoon so for kicks, I just ran some emails from my various dates through the gender genie...and they all came back with the "well he writes like a girl" analysis. So my question is, am I dating a bunch of girly-men or do men alter their way of talking/writing when they are "pitching woo"?

[Mr. Man]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
If you type in "I am a woman" the genie thinks you are a man. Anyone care to analyze that?

Ps. Every phrase of mine from the boards that I have entered into the thing results in a female finding. Guess it has me pegged.

Unfortunately, I don't think the same can be said for your long lost half-sister NFH.

[bridge of love]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
If you type in "I am a woman" the genie thinks you are a man. Anyone care to analyze that?

Ps. Every phrase of mine from the boards that I have entered into the thing results in a female finding. Guess it has me pegged.

it's the just making the statement baldly, try "I am a strong woman, with my values and goals set", or something with more description

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I still see a lot of them around. And don't call me a geek.

That doesn't make it right.

There are still comb-overs and mullets for godsakes.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
If you type in "I am a woman" the genie thinks you are a man. Anyone care to analyze that?

It was your use of "a" that did it.

Take any piece of fiction and do the following:

1. Count the number of words in the document.

2. For each appearance in the document of the following words ADD the number of points indicated:
'the' (17)
'a' (6)
'some' (6)
any number, written in digits or in words (5)
'it' (2)

3. For each appearance in the document of the following words SUBTRACT the number of points indicated:
'with' (14)
possessives, ending in 's' (5)
possessive pronouns, such as 'mine', 'yours', 'his', 'hers', (3)
'for' (4)
'not' or any word ending with 'n't' (4)

4. If the total score (after adding and subtracting as indicated) is greater than the total number of words in the document, then the author of the document is probably a male. Otherwise, the author is probably a female.

— Courtesy of Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology

Technically, it's only supposed to work for fiction. When I put one of my posts about transmissions in, it thinks I'm male. When I put in my post about second-time bridal showers, it thinks I'm female. I guess I'm in perfect hormonal balance.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Mr. Man
Unfortunately, I don't think the same can be said for your long lost half-sister NFH.

I've avoided this thing for 2 days, and now you make me do this!

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: Female!
Ha!

[bridge of love]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
It was your use of "a" that did it.
.

you took the mystery out of it, my explanation is better

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
It was your use of "a" that did it.



Technically, it's only supposed to work for fiction. When I put one of my posts about transmissions in, it thinks I'm male. When I put in my post about second-time bridal showers, it thinks I'm female. I guess I'm in perfect hormonal balance.

I didn't mean technically analyze it, but that's what I get for posting such a statement on a board full of lawyers.

So if I put "I am your woman" it should say female, correct?

[Mr. Man]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
I've avoided this thing for 2 days, and now you make me do this!

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: Female!
Ha!

I was hoping no one would notice that. Of course, I am slow enough to have thought of entering that phrase AFTER I submitted.

I will also note that "Carver is the Camaro of amps" is also a male statement (how could it not be with Carver and Camaro in the same sentence?), but I will assume you were doing that for dramatic effect.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
That doesn't make it right.

There are still comb-overs and mullets for godsakes.

Like I'm going to take style advice from a fucking moose.

[ThrashersFan]

Here we go again folks. Yesterday I walked into the breakroom and there sits the catalog with obligatory note "help me raise funds for my school and win the 'limo to lunch' prize." School started last Monday for fuck's sake. Then I go home only to discover that my son had been tapped by the "crappy Christmas wrap" fairie. He is only 5 years old. What the fuck. You all know how I feel about this shit (please review numerous ranting posts about the sale of girl scout cookies in my office). My 5 year old child will not be going door to door to sell this crap and they fucking know it -- they know that all this does is force parents of school-aged children to tote these catalogs into their offices and bug the hell out of their co-workers to buy some useless crap. This sucks ass. Despite my very vocal protestations, my HR guy refuses to ban this type of activity from the office. My idiot husband was proud to have discovered that you can e-mail the catalog and announced that he would send it to all of his relatives. Naturally I freaked out -- I don't know these people but it would be a total embarrassment nonetheless. Long story short, I ripped the catalog from his hands, quickly scanned the instructions for what I was looking for and wrote the $40 blackmail check that allows you to "opt out" and still meet your "voluntary commitment." Fuckers.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Well, based on my non-scientific sampling of your collective posts and some random e-mails I have lying around:

atticus: male
Fugee: male
Penske: female
ncs: goes both ways
mmm: male 2/3 of the time
legal: female
Taxwonk: female
Bilmore: male (an unprecedented 3/3 time)
Str8: female
me: male.
me from real e-mail I sent once: female
c2ed: female
randome female friend: male
other random female friend: female
aunt: female
female cousin: female
best man at our wedding: female
silly skadden summer who sent that e-mail: male
cadwalader associate unhappy exit memo from '98: female
ex-boyfriend: male/female 50/50
Edward Gorey: male
evil partner: male
evil client: female
The Mr: female


So go figure.

[bridge of love]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
my son had been tapped by the "crappy Christmas wrap" fairie. He is only 5 years old.

as will every other kid in the neighborhood so door to door is useless- send to grandma/grandpa, maybe aunts and uncles, but now take the position you don't bring your kid's shit to work, so don't participate in the circle jerk of buying from other's kids- taking this stand requires YOU buy your's kid's gift wrap/ pizza coupons/ etc., but it is much cheaper long run

[MisterEbola]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Here we go again folks. Yesterday I walked into the breakroom and there sits the catalog with obligatory note "help me raise funds for my school and win the 'limo to lunch' prize." School started last Monday for fuck's sake. Then I go home only to discover that my son had been tapped by the "crappy Christmas wrap" fairie. He is only 5 years old. What the fuck. You all know how I feel about this shit (please review numerous ranting posts about the sale of girl scout cookies in my office). My 5 year old child will not be going door to door to sell this crap and they fucking know it -- they know that all this does is force parents of school-aged children to tote these catalogs into their offices and bug the hell out of their co-workers to buy some useless crap. This sucks ass. Despite my very vocal protestations, my HR guy refuses to ban this type of activity from the office. My idiot husband was proud to have discovered that you can e-mail the catalog and announced that he would send it to all of his relatives. Naturally I freaked out -- I don't know these people but it would be a total embarrassment nonetheless. Long story short, I ripped the catalog from his hands, quickly scanned the instructions for what I was looking for and wrote the $40 blackmail check that allows you to "opt out" and still meet your "voluntary commitment." Fuckers.

Joe Corbi's pizza has to be the worst tasting stuff on the face of the earth.

I also like it when they try to sell packages of snickers and reeses for $1.25. A four pack of reeses for $1.25??? Fuck, CVS isn't even that expensive.