Now we can test our texts and weblogs for masculinity, femininity and gender focus. I have tested three of my blog entries in the Gender Genie. The genie informs me that my writing style is highly masculine.
This may help explain why, when I believed I had created a gender neutral weblog, readers thought I was a man. More specifically, they believed I was a Latin man. When they began to suspect I was not a man, some switched their bets on race to Black.
Either I am a very confused and confusing person, or I am living proof that women can write in an objective style, Anglos can speak Spanish, and European-Americans can comprehend why African-Americans might mistrust the government and the whites. These things are not in fact difficult to do or to understand.
I have also tested the “he/she ratio,” that is, the ratio in which these two pronouns appear, of this entire weblog on Google Blogoscoped. My ratio is 39/61, which is to say that I use the pronoun “she” far more than I do “he.” I find this very interesting, as I tend to think this weblog is heavily, perhaps even overly oriented toward cultural production by men.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
I don’t actually understand the Gender Genie. I played with it, but when I cut and paste stuff in, there is part of me that thinks…waitaminute…I’m a trained academic. In order to flourish at my job, I’ve had to learn to write in a certain way. If I believed in the gender of texts (which I am not sure I do, but I am not knowledgable enough to have an intelligent opinion), then would this prove anything other than I had absorbed the “voice” lessons of higher education in the social sciences extremely well?
I think you write like a clever woman.
I think the Gender Genie would say Virginia Woolf was a man!
I thought you were a man. It is the whole “Professor Zero” thing. It sounds like a cool DC comic anti-hero who would put oil tankers into a deep freeze for the sake of fair trade. So, I kind of went to Manga cartoons immediately. I can’t remember when I discovered that you weren’t a superman but a superwoman. I was confused for a little while. But I eventually figured out you were a female cyborg.
According to the gender machine I am a female.
“It sounds like a cool DC comic anti-hero who would put oil tankers into a deep freeze for the sake of fair trade.”
That was the idea behind the title – the immediate reference is to Subc. Marcos / Delegado Cero but what I was thinking of was a character who would catch all balls and say the buck stops here. I didn’t realize all of this would encode me as male – or that these were male characters which would identify me as male – but in retrospect, it should have been pretty obvious! 😉