Do gendered writing styles exist? - troons btfo; fail to write-pass

[???]

How is it possible I can clock an anonymous poster just by how they write? There's something going on there, but for me it's just intuition - I can't articulate what gives it away. Do any of our more big-brained posters have insights into what I'm detecting?

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I've noticed guys tend to be rather blunt and when they sperg, they sperg hard. G.I.R.L.s, in the meantime, exaggerate in their writing and come off really whiny. If you can hear the high-pitched squeeing in text, don't engage or you'll catch cooties.

 

[Underestimated Nutria]

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I don't know if the above tool is an accurate one, but the principle is certainly real.

 

[inexplicable ethos]

If you can't tell whether someone is a guy or a girl, just deliberately misinterpret their writing. Men will get annoyed and correct you. Women will get mad, but never actually tell you what they meant.

 

[Wendy Carter]

Yes, they do. I can tell by the way you write that you're either a girl or a massive faggot.

 

[kūhaku]

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I don't know if the above tool is an accurate one, but the principle is certainly real.

I pasted some random stuff I've written in the past, and half of it is pretty masculine and the other half is pretty feminine, so I suppose you should just take it with a grain of salt.

 

[Kenya Jones]

idk about writing style but i know for sure handwriting is a huge giveaway. Good to use when trying to clock a tranny (that came out wrong)

 

[Coffee Shits]

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I don't know if the above tool is an accurate one, but the principle is certainly real.

 

[The Empirical Bogey]

Using lower case or words like "idk", "yall", "smh", are feminine traits to me. Having a female avatar or username could also play a subconscious part

 

[mr.moon1488]

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[Shield Breaker]

Women and men write differently. One of the biggest giveaways is women tend to follow grammar rules a lot more closely.

 

[garakfan69]

You can tell by the pink text.

 

[queerape]

I would say the answer to this question is yes, even with regards to speaking. I noticed that I tend to be a bit more roundabout than a former boyfriend with a similar vocabulary level.

 

[Nintendo Switch Engage]

I would think no, though generally when I'm reading someone's comments or content I'm not really thinking about the gender of the writer.

 

[HeyYou]

I would say the answer to this question is yes, even with regards to speaking. I noticed that I tend to be a bit more roundabout than a former boyfriend with a similar vocabulary level.

 

[Oglooger]

 

[Underestimated Nutria]

Having a female avatar or username could also play a subconscious part

Really? In my cursed experience, a readily sexed avatar/name emits the whiff of big swingin' ladydick.

 

[Spedestrian]

Yes, gendered writing styles absolutely exist. This study used samples of male and female writing to develop a predictive algorithm that could determine the gender of unknown writers with 80% accuracy. It was published in 2003 so there are probably more detailed and impressive studies available by now, but it's still notable for establishing that gendered writing styles are consistent across both fiction and nonfiction genres.

Essentially, the difference is that male writing is more "informational" and female writing is more "relational." Men use more determiners (a, the, that, these) and quantifiers (one, two, more, some) because they tend to talk more about specific features of objects. Women use more pronouns (I, you, she, her, their, myself, yourself, herself, xir, xirself, theyself) because they tend to talk more about relationships between entities. In short, all the data seems to support the most common stereotypes about male and female communication.

Another observation the study makes is that the features of male writing and nonfiction writing are strongly correlated, as are the features of female writing and fiction writing. This can lead to some interesting quirks in male fiction and female nonfiction writing. Namely, male fiction has a striking tendency to include more "informational" passages despite the genre's overall focus on the subjective experiences and relationships between characters. If a work of fiction seems strangely preoccupied with the facts and history of its world, it is statistically more likely to have a male author. Likewise, female nonfiction has a notable predilection towards "relational" language despite the genre's focus on relating specific facts about objective reality. If a work of nonfiction seems strangely preoccupied with its author and the people whose facts it references, it is statistically more likely to have a female author.

This isn't part of the study, but gendered differences in writing styles may be why women are so commonly accused of having "Girl on the Internet Syndrome." Obviously some women do make lots of overt references to their gender in order to garner attention and favors, but a lot times you'll see presumably male users screaming "GOTIS" any time a female user references her gender, even when said reference is clearly innocuous and unmotivated. Why? Because most online discussions are nonfictional, and women tend to insert themselves into nonfiction writing more often due to their "relational" writing style. Since men tend to be more "informational" this behavior may strike them as jarring and deliberate rather than a natural extension of the way that women normally speak. The concept of "mansplaining" is likely based on a similar misunderstanding of gendered differences in communication, but that's a story for another day.

tl;dr - Men talk about facts and objects, women talk about relationships and people. These aren't just subjective stereotypes, they're backed by objective data.

 

[Safir]

These aren't just subjective stereotypes, they're backed by objective data.

> This paper explores differences between male and female writing in a large subset of the British National Corpus covering a range of genres.

British National Corpus
Written corpus

• Newspapers (regional, national)
• Research journals
• Periodicals (published, unpublished)
• Fiction books

Another observation the study makes is that the features of male writing and nonfiction writing are strongly correlated, as are the features of female writing and fiction writing.

You don't say?

These "gendered styles" they found are "what men and women are paid to write about". We already know this, for the breakdown of jobs by sex:


What a garbage study.

 

[ScamL Likely]

Full xir status unintentionally achieved.