Journal: News & Comment

Thursday, June 15, 2006
# 3:27:00 PM:

Change it up

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Regender (via Chris) takes any website, Google search, etc. and converts all the male references to female, and female to male, in the text. Interesting results—they can be suble (this boy site or this girl site) or not (Billie, Stephanie, and, uh, Oprah):

Time magazine wrote, "Few people would have bet on Oprah Winfrey's swift rise to host of the most popular talk show on TV. In a field dominated by white females, he is a black male of ample bulk. As interviewers go, he is no match for, say, Phyllis Donahue."

And yes, regendering this post starts to get really confusing.

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