Gender Genie Feels You Out

Posted on September 7, 2003 in Blogging Crosstalk Sexuality

Gender Genie thinks Al Muhajabah is a man. It says that I must be a woman and that Lynn must be a man.

In the wake of these revelations (more evidence that I have an enlarged clitoris), I went down the list of blogs in my daily walk. I discovered that according to Gender Genie, many people weren’t what they seemed to be:

Blog	Name	Actual Sex	Gender Genie
A Clever Sheep	evan	Male	Female
A Fifty Pound Bag	Mileah	Female	Female
Asylum	Tracy	Female	Female
Bag and Baggage	Denise	Female	Female
Beautiful Horizons	Randy	Male	Male
Betsy Burke	Betsy	Female	Female
Body and Soul	Jeanne	Female	Female
Brian Kane Online	Brian	Male	Male
Burningbird	Shelley	Female	Male
Byte Back	Andrew	Male	Male
Chronicle Corvidae	Raven	Female	Female
Conniption	Rob	Male	Male
Deborama	Deb	Female	Male
Desert Viking	DV	Female	Male
Elkit in Wonderland	Elkit	Female	Female
Fantastic Planet	Jeremy	Male	Female
In Remembrance of Me	Kimber	Female	Female
In Sequence	Teresa	Female	Male
Insignifica	Michael	Male	Female
Jaded Ju	Jill	Female	Female
Joker on the Run	Tracy	Female	Male
Kathryn Kramer	Kathryn	Female	Female
Mute Troubadour	Doug	Male	Female
Back from the Edge	Bill	Male	Male
Nothing but Love	Stacey	Female	Female
Nurse Ratched	Ratch	Female	Female
Otter’s Den	Mel	Female	Male
Pam’s Blog of Random Stuff	Pam	Female	Male
Prairie Point	Bill	Male	Male
Pure Land Mountain	Robert	Male	Male
Reading & Writing	Joseph	Male	Male
Red Water Lily	Suzanne	Female	Female
Serial Deviant	Andrea	Female	Male
Shameless Agitator	Andrea	Female	Female
Sneakeasy’s Joint	Kirial	Male	Male
Techfluid	Chari	Female	Female
The Grey Bird Talks	Bird	Female	Female
The Gutless Pacifist	Pen	Male	Male
Under the Fire Star	Nancy	Female	Male
Yeah, What of It?	Sally	Female	Female
Yule Heibels Post Studio	Yule	Female	Male

For the fun of it, I entered the phrases “I am a man.” “I am a woman.” “I am male.” “I am female.” For the first two, Gender Genie guessed that the writer was a male; for the second two, a female.

Go figure.