I found a link to this site at Blue Gal's blog. It's supposed to analyze a blog and determine the gender of the blog author.
It does not work. It seems to assume that anyone who writes about firearms or politics or national security issues is a man.
Cases in point: The Spy Who Billed Me, View From the Porch, Adventures of Roberta X, the Breda Fallacy, TFS Magnum, ShortWoman, Echinde of the Snakes, and, of course, this humble blog. Pulp Friction and Cranky Epistles were still thought to be male, but close. Politits barely made it to the female side of the scale (the blog is written by a blogger whose handle is "DCup"-- hello? how much more do you need?).
Stupid computer widget.
Well, It LOOKS Like We’ve Identified The Problem
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Snort! Yeah, it thought my blog, which is mostly about beadwork and knitting was written by a man. Perhaps because I included my results from the Politics Test? Ah well, it was briefly entertaining.
but see? you gave me linky love!
Thanks I gotcha blogrolled now. Keep the faith.
I wonder if I changed my name to double DCups, that widget would get it?
Stupid computer widget.
Yeah. That thing said the Brain was 'probably' male (67%). An outrage since we all know me and Gord are 100% manly men. Heh ...
Fixer, you scored lower than about half of the blogs written by women which I cited.
Heh. Heh. Heh.
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