Bingo! The Gender Genie got it right. But I thought it was funny that a huge part of my female score was the word “she,” which is a natural result of the story being about a woman. Another big one was “not,” but I don’t know why that word is female.

It’s interesting that possessive words and words that deal with human relationships (we, myself) are feminine. Masculine words are words with authority and certainty (is, are) and feminine words are more unsure (if, should).

It thinks I write like I man, which is good I guess. An interesting little test, but I’m not sure how accurate it is, judging from the other responses.

The little chart at the bottom was interesting to examine as well.

I dunno, I guess I write like a man?

I can see the insult coming now — “You write like a girl!” Well, I guess it’s kind of neat to see how many masculine words you use in your writing as compared to how many feminine words.

How did they determine words as masculine or feminine? Why is “the,” which I used 46 times in my story, considered masculine and “and,” which I used 43 times, considered feminine? I think it’s all a little strange to me.

Haha, The story thing got me all kinds of right. My story was overwhelmingly written by a male, which is good because I am a male.

Apparently, men are concerned about things and women are concerned about the connections people have with those things. Men show this in their writing by using articles and women show this by using possessives. I think it’s crap. It also doesn’t explain why using words like “she” would be feminine. What if the focus of a man’s story is a woman? That would greatly effect his female score, but wouldn’t necessarily mean that he’s talking about connections more so than if he used the word “he” in his story rather than “she.”

It seems my story has a desired readability level. I tend to write simply in my stories, yet I was still expecting a higher index because of the nature of this particular story. The word “acupuncture” appears several times throughout my story, and was counted as a four-syllable word, yet there is no alternative word I could have used. Interestingly, “curiosity” is also counted as a complex word since it has five syllables.
I question the accuracy involved in equating complexity with multiple syllables. There are many monosyllabic words that I’m sure the average high school senior would not know. These doubts aside, and when considering that many of my three-syllable and four-syllable words are in fact simple words, perhaps my story’s readability level is really much lower than 10.45.