tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12478084.post647204054976416518..comments2024-01-17T02:39:06.048-05:00Comments on rude truth: eschewing our gender, yet againJJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14920416765778868736noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12478084.post-74658920343414042602008-03-24T22:08:00.000-05:002008-03-24T22:08:00.000-05:00I put in one of my posts which I would have consid...I put in one of my posts which I would have considered stereotypically "masculine" (I was making a sort-of-kind-of formal argument) and it came out female (with a score of 2025 to 1721). Strange. <BR/><BR/>By and large the genie think I am male, which is correct, but I was surprised at that one particular one. Looking at my score, I got a lot of female points for "if" and "with"... interesting... <BR/><BR/>(Post in question: http://spiffthespaceman.blogspot.com/2008/02/argument-against-scripture-as-epistemic.html)Spaceman Spiffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02195067716296117149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12478084.post-5628576436021608332007-10-11T12:50:00.000-05:002007-10-11T12:50:00.000-05:00I'm going mostly off of intuition here, so I might...I'm going mostly off of intuition here, so I might be overlooking some important points.<BR/><BR/>My experience with school has been that more scholarly discussion tends to make very fine distinctions between things, whereas less academic (though still intelligent) discussion can get away with broader generalizations.<BR/><BR/>It seems to me that a more agressive (though hopefully not harmfully combative) style of discussion is better suited for graduate school, because someone is always there (hopefully) to challenge students when they aren't making fine enough distinctions. (It's no use getting away with sloppy thought or language during grad school, because no one will read your books or articles after you graduate--unless you're provocative.)<BR/><BR/>A more congenial mode of discourse, in contrast, would be more helpful for undergraduate education, where the goals are primarily for students to learn how to think and to learn some generalizations to approach life with.<BR/><BR/>The corrollary to this (and I think my experience bears this out) would be that harsh professors probably don't reach undergraduates very well, whereas more lenient professors probably don't prepare grad students as well as the students need them to.<BR/><BR/>This doesn't have to break down to gender differences, and of course a professor (or a fellow student) can be tough and respectful at the same time, which is the ideal. <BR/><BR/>But to the extent that the stereotype about women valuing relationships and men valuing ideas is true (I've experienced a slight tendency in that direction, though less so as more and more of my friends are grad students), then gender might make a different for this reason: it seems to me that most of life should be more about relationships, but grad school should be more about ideas.scootshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14648062432937107093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12478084.post-47281117878951370592007-10-01T09:14:00.000-05:002007-10-01T09:14:00.000-05:00Jocelyn, I've also wondered about the academese co...Jocelyn, I've also wondered about the academese correlation...although all the texts I've used are blog posts. All the posts involved some amount of analysis and quoting: the Marcus Ross rant, the Doctor Who post, and this one. Interestingly, the rant is the only one to score female (and just barely--you can see it on hermit greg's link).<BR/><BR/>But it raises the question of just how "male" the academic world still is, a question that all of my female colleagues at PTS have discussed from time to time with regard to seminar discussions, expectations, and generally combative atmosphere...JTBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05977180734561873789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12478084.post-45052993321853002852007-09-29T09:37:00.000-05:002007-09-29T09:37:00.000-05:00I checked out the Gender Genie test. (I did it twi...I checked out the Gender Genie test. (I did it twice, once with a professional document, once with a blog entry.) At first, I was thought to be male, then female. Here's my observation: it seems that almost any professional or academic writing would almost certainly get the author deemed "male" because the masculine keywords include such common words as "a," "the," "at," and "it" and has no personal pronouns, whereas the feminine keywords are chock full of pronouns (your, her, we, she, myself, hers). So, it just seems a little bit skewed. Any woman who writes a blog about her friends and uses pronouns then turns around and writes a professional document using appropriate definite articles ("the") could be "ambisextruous" (I like that word!). Am I right?<BR/><BR/>I'm just wondering how the quiz-makers collected their data and if women really use that many pronouns over other, more common words like "the."<BR/><BR/>But here's to gender-bending and fooling the machine!jocelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07297153326314366962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12478084.post-67832128168199310972007-09-28T21:08:00.000-05:002007-09-28T21:08:00.000-05:00Haha, I saw pictures of you at Lectureship taken b...Haha, I saw pictures of you at Lectureship taken by GKB and your hair is getting longer, woman! I miss you. Loves to Clare and Brent.TKPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07830562753725505668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12478084.post-44981976601962985302007-09-28T20:03:00.000-05:002007-09-28T20:03:00.000-05:00I agree: it's totally cool to be ambisextruous.I agree: it's totally cool to be ambisextruous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12478084.post-33954988647452100472007-09-28T18:01:00.000-05:002007-09-28T18:01:00.000-05:00Yes, but my Doctor Who post was WAY male. So ther...Yes, but my Doctor Who post was WAY male. So there. Besides, how much cooler is that I can float back and forth between cybergenders?JTBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05977180734561873789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12478084.post-3375022578625024452007-09-28T16:40:00.000-05:002007-09-28T16:40:00.000-05:00In my original survey, you came out "Chick"--but j...In <A HREF="http://www.hermitsrock.com/article/sex-you-up" REL="nofollow">my original survey</A>, you came out "Chick"--but just barely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com