Halo said
Really?

Halo said
To be fair, most people who have sets with identifiable male or female characters in them tend to stick to their own gender, simply because they know the assumption will be made - which, in the long run, makes those assumptions more likely to be right, and, weeelllll, it's a vicious cycle.

Halo said
Really?From a massive message I sent to Dervish (so, informal conversation, the same context as keeps convincing people I'm female): 1. female (73.3 %)2. male (26.7 %)

Lucian said
Usually, yeah.

Kaga said
Oops. I should probably go edit my post in that mental illness thread.Although... I swear you've corrected me on this before, now that I think about it. Don't know how I could've forgotten again. I can't even remember the last time I had a female character in my set.Hooray for breaking the cycle?

Doivid said
idk if this is the original one, but here I found one for everyone to use. Grab a writing sample of yours from somewhere, and give it a go:

Doivid said
Yeah that's the thing. I can tell you from what I've learned of gendered speech: better vocab, more expressive, more agreeable (rather than obviously assertive), more emotion in general=conflated with female speech.

Jorick said
That's kind of neat. I threw in my most recent long thing I wrote, character history for an RP, and it gave me male (61.4 %), female (38.6 %).

Halo said
I meant "really, you thought I was a woman?"

Halo said
In that case, the sample you choose would have a massive effect, no? If I ran a debating speech through there it'd probably come out as superdupermasculine9000. I'll have to try different sample sources tomorrow, see what the differences are...

Lucian said
Also, I got,Female: 56%Male: 44%

Doivid said
sounds aboat right

Kaga said
Oops. I should probably go edit my post in that mental illness thread.Although... I swear you've corrected me on this before, now that I think about it. Don't know how I could've forgotten again. I can't even remember the last time I had a female character in my set.Hooray for breaking the cycle?

Lucian said
Does it indeed? Interesting.

Overwatch said
Damn, need to put more females in my set and expand my vocabulary and agree more and shit.

Doivid said
wait I'm confused, why do you need to do that? Are you a girl?

Overwatch said
Damn, need to put more females in my set and expand my vocabulary and agree more and shit.

Overwatch said
(Kaga, don't ruin this.)

Overwatch said
Wait, you're not sure? Oh Yeaah!!~~(Kaga, don't ruin this.)

Kaga said
...You want to be mistaken for a female?Is there something you haven't been telling us, Overwatch?