So I was poking into that “I write like…” topic again, and realized something that I’ve never seen mentioned here: the Gender Genie.
It checks out a sample of your writing and then guesses your gender, based on a simplified version of an algorithm.
It’s fun. Its results actually match when I’m writing from a female or male perspective. :mrgreen:
I just got through playing around with it. It matched my male and female perspective too. I don’t know if that means if I’m good or it is.
Hmm. I came out as male. (I’m not.) On the other hand, I used a first-person excerpt by a character whose gender I haven’t yet decided.
cw
I had an editor reply to a story submission once by telling me that from his “years of astute observation” my female protagonist was obviously based on the author and that I should learn to write from a male perspective.
Thing is, I’m a male, and the female character was based on two girls I knew at the time, neither one of whom was “tomboyish.” Wonder what other noble observations that astute editor had observed before and after my brief encounter with him. Perhaps he got a job coding “I Write Like…” programs.
[I love nasty rejections almost as much as publication paychecks. They make my job far more fun when I talk shop with others.]
Hmmmmmmm… 
I put in a bit of my current unpublishable novel, and I am overwhelmingly (4:1) male. Then I put in a few pages of my most recently finished one: female by 2:1.
Perchance I am evolving, like some strange amphibian.
Non!Cherie. You are just a kinky broad 
Le D
But in the “current unpublishable novel”, is the narrator male or female? Or are there more male than female characters? That would skew the results. :mrgreen:
Well, this is interesting: I put in parts of a draft dissertation chapter I sent to my supervisor. The one paragraph he marked “good!” is overwhelmingly ‘masculine’ (10-1), while others are classified as feminine (though there isn’t the same skew–the distribution of gendered words is closer to the middle). Hmmm…
Interesting, very interesting, she says, musingly scratching her beard.
I know that I tend to qualify what I say in general … oh, drat. … Maybe I need to get a magickal hat* or listen to particular music when I write, like Dorothy Dunnett who wrote to Wagner. That should work, right?**
*Probably a black silk top hat, unfortunately.
I’m only musing, btw, since my supervisor, though not effusive, approves of my work so far in general.*
***Ack! I’m going to be hypersensitive as I qualify everything I say.