What sex are you? | Lesbians and STDs: the truth | Liza Minelli's yard sale
?In the wake of recent debacles such as the Gay Girl in Damascus expose, and VS Naipaul's wazzocky remarks about female authors, a team from the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey claims to have developed software that can identify the gender of writers with an 85% accuracy rate. Apparently there are 157 discernible differences between male and female writing, including words that indicate the author's mood or sentiment, emotionally intensive adverbs, affective adjectives and more question marks (all female traits) and more frequent use of the word "I" (male). According to the New Scientist, Naipaul rated 88.4% male, George Eliot scored 94.6% female, Sarah Palindrome 70.77% male, and the Gay Girl in Damascus blogger, 63.2% male.
I remain sceptical. My esteemed colleague Mr Oliver Burkeman once introduced me to a similar site that claimed to discern the gender of a writer from a single paragraph of writing. When I entered my paragraph, the site announced that I was male.
?A report in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that young lesbian and bisexual women are less likely to have STD check-ups and smear tests than their heterosexual peers. Researchers at the Harvard School of Medicine analysing data from 4,224 women aged 17-25, concluded that lesbian women are significantly less likely than heterosexual women to have had a pap smear either in the last year or in their lifetime.
?There are many times we wished we lived in the Hamptons, but never more so than last weekend, when Liza Minnelli decided to throw a yard sale at her home there. On sale ? I kid ye not ? were a pair of Michael Jackson's epaulets, various sequinned confections, furniture from her Lake Tahoe residence, and a book on hip-replacement. We hope this starts a trend for yard sales of the rich and famous; nothing would delight us more than Liz Hurley flogging her old white jeans from a trestle table, or rifling through Geri Halliwell's unwanted self-help manuals.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/20/view-from-a-broad
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