Well, so far this is my favorite response to Jaclyn Friedman’s American Prospect piece on the Men’s Rightsers and that woman-hating problem of theirs. Because what better way to refute charges of misogyny than by declaring derisively that you “can usually spot whether or not a woman wrote a piece by the first few sentences?”
Let’s let rjworks13 explain just why Friedman lacks the intellectual heft to be taken seriously by serious men with credentials — sorry, CREDENTIALS — like him:
Oh boy.
I have to say that very favorite sentence of all in this wondrous bit of HeManWomanHatersplaining is this one, if it can even be called a sentence:
CREDENTIALS: I’m a long-time trained technical and creative writer from male-based military training and put to use over 20 years.
Oy. I can only assume from the evidence of this, er, sentence, that as a technical writer his job is to make sure that instruction manuals are as unreadable as possible. And that his “creative” writing most likely consists of many volumes of self-published Gorean porn.
If you want to compare Jaclyn Friedman’s CREDENTIALS with his, you can always go to her Wikipedia entry. I looked around a bit for rjworks13’s Wikipedia entry, but he doesn’t seem to have one.
rjworks13 was evidently so proud of this bit of writing of his that he deleted it. Luckily, I grabbed a screenshot beforehand. ABS: Always Be Screenshotting.
PS What’s “indifference propaganda?”
Weird. My academic writing comes across as strongly male (87% in the informal and 64% in the formal) and my blog writing as weak male, suggesting European.
I tend to come out as a weak male for both my fiction and my nonfiction (academic work and student newspaper). For those Manboobzers who have forgotten, I’m female. I’ve also never been to Europe.
Google also attempts to guess your gender, based on your browsing history. You can check it here: http://www.google.com/settings/ads, along with the rest of Google’s guesses at your identity (age, interests, etc.).
Google corrected ID’s me as female, but guessed me age a little to old. (I’m 22, it guesses 25-35).
When I surveyed students at my college, Google was only correct 50% (actually, a little less, but only by one person in an odd sample) of the time for guys, but 80% of the time for women. I think there is something about using a computer for academic work that leads to Google thinking you are female.
Incidentally, I’ll try to get more snuggling pictures of the little buggers in my avatar. Pan (the tabby) is only half a pound less than Jade, who is four months older than him. They are still snugglebugs.
@ La Strega – OMG Forney is a toooooooootal mangina lol [/sarc] Seriously though I just ran David’s piece on the Elam/Hembling video through it and it rated it as male…so clearly David is much more of a man than Matt Forney! 😉
wordsp1nner, Yes please, on the snuggling kitty pictures!
“I write things too, but I write MANLY things because I am a MAN who does MANLY THINGS. Grammar is not MANLY, nor is subject-verb agreement, so I won’t use them because I am a MAN doing MANLY THINGS. HEAR MY MANLY ROAR!”
*nod*
RE: Scary Trees
Learning to fight with your dick?
“I see your schwartz is as big as mine, but can it handle as well?”
I turned out to be informally male, and formally weak European female.
Regarding that Redditor, meh. Nothing unexpected.
RE: gender guesser
I’ve used it before, I tend to come up either male or weak male, possibly European. Example: my blog posts tend to lean towards “male”, especially in the informal category.
Obviously it’s time to find out. Whoooooo wants to send me writing samples to put into a gender-guessing survey? Send ’em to this temp email: [email protected]
I ran my article “Radical Feminism in the 21st Century” through the Gender Guesser. The result was “male”. I suppose it’s one reason I was targeted and harassed and terrorized by A Voice for Men afterward. I write strongly and with authority. I think they agree with my premise, that there may be a biological component, not just a sociological component, to violence. But they got awful mad at my conclusions. Still, my conclusions were perfectly logical. 🙂
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Ugh, I can’t do that gender thing. It’ll just make me grouchy.
That gender guesser is fun. I’m apparently very strongly male regardless of whether I’m writing fiction, informal blogs or formal papers (well, I got one weak male/possibly European for a piece I did on animal communicators, which is hilarious to me on several levels); I guess that follows since I’m a butch lesbian feminazi* and all.
*you know, like all of us are because otherwise we wouldn’t be commenting here
Uh, Katz, what should I put for gender if I send you one? This is evo psych shit right? So gender = anatomy at birth?
Argenti: No, just put your preferred identification. (I think I’ll have male/female/other/don’t know as the options.) The evo psych people can bite me.
@katz | October 26, 2013 at 5:02 pm
I’ll send you one. Aaron Dellutri.
“so clearly David is much more of a man than Matt Forney! ;)”
Well, I think we already knew that!
(If you send something to me, please keep it short, up to 200 words. And include whatever name you want it to be attributed to.)
I ran a sample of one of my fanfics through Gender Guesser and it came up male for formal writing and weak male/European for informal. A fanfic, people. The work it’s based on is also written by a woman. Though she is European, so there’s that.
katz – sent you three samples. Sorry if they happen to be long.
Addendum – Shit, I didn’t read your request to make it less than 200 words. Oops. >_>
If he’s no longer recognizing those who use deceptive rhetoric, lies, hate and indifference propaganda, POOF! He’s no longer an MRA. He himself may well fail to exist by his own measure.
Propaganda’s a lot of things, but indifferent isn’t one of them.
Alice: Not to worry, I can truncate.
@Scary Trees
Minecraft subreddit is rather decent – but it has its rules that forbid sexism among other things, and it’s focused on a game. So far I didn’t see anything that would break the rules so I guess it’s rather well moderated.
I avoid most of the reddit for obvious reasons though.
hellkill – Indifferent propaganda. I wonder what it would look like.
Something like this?