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Via [livejournal.com profile] nojojojo,[livejournal.com profile] zia_narratora took the bull by the horns and wrote to the creator of the I Write Like... meme that's gone around in the past few days. High points: out of 40 authors in the analysis, 37 are men--even Margaret Atwood's writing comes out like P.G. Wodehouse. And the creator refuses to add more women or PoC authors because people are equal and race and gender don't matter. Which is why all the authors on the list are white, doubtless.


On a contrapuntal note, Happy Birthday, [personal profile] owlectomy!  

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Date: 2010-07-15 19:51 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] outou
I thought Sappho's result in the meme was hilarious, but I'm glad someone got to the root of the problem and tried to talk some sense to the programmer. If only his head wasn't apparently as thick as concrete.

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Date: 2010-07-15 16:57 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zahrawithaz.livejournal.com
I've been wondering why it is that everyone I know who's done this meme has come out a white man. Glad to see that someone took it on--I will be following that link....

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