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I came across this via Bitch Ph.D:
Using your browser URL history to estimate gender
Oh yeah, I thought–it’s not like I frequent a bunch of G-I-R-L-Y sites–
Apparently I am more gendered than I thought though.
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 68%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 32%
Site Male-Female Ratio
google.com
0.98
yahoo.com
0.9
youtube.com
1
mapquest.com
0.83
photobucket.com
0.85
cnn.com
1.35
weather.com
1.08
merriam-webster.com
0.89
gmail.com
0.9
psychologytoday.com
0.63

The boyfriend came in at:
Likelihood of you being […]

How quaint! Too bad he’s spying on you.
I’m no fan of the RCMP, one of our glorious national symbols. They had a historical role in abducting indigenous children from their families so that they could be tortured, brainwashed, and frequently killed in residential schools. More recently, they’ve been responsible for an out-of-control taser epidemic that […]

It’s hard to take seriously, but I’m doing my best. I couldn’t stop myself from doing a Google search on it; one of the first hits was this blog quote:
Yes, there really is a Journal of Happiness Studies — which could either be wonderful news or yet another sign of our imminent demise.”
I’ll buy […]

It’s Caturday, after all, and I exercise my right to be a crazy cat lady on the internet.
I hadn’t heard of Rachel Lucas before today, and it’s probably just as well. (I object on principle to cutesy diminutives of the name Rachel—Rachie is bad enough, but Wachel is the worst I’ve heard. Also, people who […]

When I was eighteen…
…I was an MRA.

Okay, not really. Not totally! and definitely not consciously. But I had some interesting ideas about men and women.

In a recent post by Sabotabby, Amanda commented that she had “just started Julia Serano’s book that was partially inspired by this, and her theory seems to be […]

Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival is, strictly speaking, not really any of my business. It’s been a few years since any artist I particularly like performed there, and I have an allergy to alternative spellings of “women.” This said, as a feminist, I do feel it’s my right to criticize gender essentialism and transphobia and take […]

Best line in the whole article.
Usually I don’t blog about these kinds of studies, as they irritate me no end–either they are driven by a need to prove women are “inferior,” or if the study doesn’t pan out in that desirable direction, they are full of inanities delivered in tones of hushed astonishment–“Girls have caught […]

After having spent my adult life variously not being a mom, being a married mom, being a single mom, being a mom who stayed at home and being a mom who worked outside the home, I have come to the conclusion that if you are a fertile woman of childbearing years, no matter what you’re […]

We have a contender.
Meet Dmitri. He’s a pick-up artist, which in itself gives him about 50 million douchebag points. He met a woman named Olga, who talked to him for a few minutes, gave him her card, and said, “Call me.”
So he did. She wasn’t home, and he left the second-douchiest phone message in […]

I got back from San Francisco pride a couple of weeks ago, and that is one intense. fucking. party., let me tell you.
I thought I would be writing right now about the commercialization, commodification, and normalization of “the gay lifestyle.” I thought I would be talking about how the rainbow-banner Bud Lite banners were vaguely […]

I’ve always yearned to be “ilk!”
Of course, I may be flattering myself. When the Lady Lydia referred to persons of “Kyso’s ilk,” she may not have been referring to me because she didn’t specify what Kysoean attributes a person must have to be considered one of “Kyso’s ilk.”
(I’m sorry for the incessant […]

On one level, it isn’t really hard to understand, though it does require that one accepts the truism that people tend to believe what they want to believe, rather than genuinely evaluating a given situation into which they have poured a lot of emotional investment from a logical and dispassionate standpoint. It’s not like […]