But my short stories are liminal. They are barely male and sometimes rated as female.
I put in some of my dreams and they turned out to be 65% male, all of them hovering right around that mark.. Of course all of my essays come out Male, hovering around 70%. But not to the extent that all of my poetry is simply off the scale.
I written some of my short stories in female first person and they are the ones that ticked up the verdict: "female", which I suppose is interesting.
But my poetry? Real men write poetry, no doubt! This this is an artifact of the computer.
Jerry
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> The first chapter of Fanny Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans
> came out more male than my stuff did -- a slightly uneasy feeling, that.
>
> Here's Fanny:
>
> Genre: Informal
> Female = 1230
> Male = 2742
> Difference = 1512; 69.03%
> Verdict: MALE
>
> Genre: Formal
> Female = 928
> Male = 1388
> Difference = 460; 59.93%
> Verdict: Weak MALE
>
>
> A random chapter of Grant's memoirs, not surprisingly I guess, got
> a decidedly thumbs-up male verdict. Sherman, also maybe not surprisingly,
> wasn't quite so ballsy.
>
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