Guess I can't audition for The Crying Game

Up for some gender pigeon-holing, algorithm-style? 

According to this page that allows you to search your browsing history to determine whether you're likely a male or female, the:

Likelihood of me being FEMALE is 95%
Likelihood of me being MALE is 5%

Similarly, Gender Genie allows you to input text from a blog entry, piece of fiction or nonfiction, and it will calculate, based on the frequency of certain words (i.e. "around."  Who knew "around" was a "masculine" word?!), whether you're a male or female.  I guess I need to start saying "around" more often, because every frakking time I tried it -- and I tried it more than six times -- the Internet mooned me, then turned around and said, "Haha, you're stupid and I'm not!"

This really irritates me.  I don't know what's worse, getting nailed as female (and who knew that could make me as mad as it does, as feminist as I am?!), or that apparently it's easy to categorize me in this strictly dual dichotomy? 

Like, hello?  I'd like to think of us as individual souls within a giant web of humanity, not as the innies and the outies, biologically, linguistically, and technologically.

Humph.  Guess I should go give myself a pedicure or something.

Comments

[Carrie]

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 92%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 8%

[Josh]

Um.

I just tried the Genie out on my proud-geek.com blog post from today about an alarm system interfering with my DSL Internet service. I thought my blog post was geek-laden with tech language.

The Gender Gene conclusively said I'm a FEMALE!

Here's the score:

Female Score: 989
Male Score: 906

And, for the record, I didn't use a single "around" in that blog post.

Hmf. Or maybe not hmf. Hmm.