Guanabee is a pretty fun site to write, even after the site hit puberty back in June. We’ve had to try and give the site a more “girly” feel which, if you know us (or any girl) is hard to accomplish. We can’t write about lipstick and heels without including the fact that red lipstick makes us think of dog boners or that, while we find heels lovely, we don’t personally wear them because we’re not a fan of weeping blisters on our feet or of not being able to run away from Los Pigs should the need arise. We don’t think this makes us less of a girl, but it does make us less girly - which is a social construct we sometimes see as harmful and, as such, try to comment on and maybe analyze while making a joke about canine erections.

Anyway, all this is background meant to explain our interest in something called the “GenderAnalyzer” - a site designed to determine whether any given blog is written by a male or a female. So who’s writing Guanabee? See for yourself, after the jump:

We’re kind of ambiguous! Let’s see what results some other sites get…

Machochip (Written, primarily, by Alex F. Who is a dude.):

We think http://machochip.com is written by a man (72%).

Hm, well. What about Perez Hilton? (He has a penis, somewhere.):

We think http://perezhilton.com is written by a man (78%).

Ok. What about Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez’s site? (She’s a lady.):

We think http://alisavaldesrodriguez.blogspot.com/ is written by a man (71%).

What about sites written by both men and women? Like The NY Times’ website, for instance:

We think http://www.nytimes.com/ is written by a man (84%).

Craigslist? Specifically New York’s “Missed Connections:”

We have strong indicators that http://newyork.craigslist.org/mis/ is written by a woman (92%).

Which is weird because, as of posting time, the Missed Connections page was mostly m4m and m4w. Which gets us wondering… how does the GenderAnalyzer work? Are there certain topics deemed more feminine? Or are there word choices, phrases or syntax more commonly preferred by men versus women? What do you think?

[GenderAnalyzer]