We All Write Like White Men
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teaberryblueSo, I’d been eyeing that meme going around since yesterday…
You know the one, the one where you plug in something you’ve written, and it tells you who you write like?
But I was starting to notice an uncomfortable pattern, so I decided to plug in some famous authors.
I started with people whom I knew were actually represented in the meme generator:
Hemingway
Margaret Atwood
Chuck Palahniuk
PG WodeHouse
Raymond Chandler
JK Rowling
Douglas Adams
Then I progressed to people who I thought were probable entrants in it.
William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Geoffrey Chaucer
I write like
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper
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Bill Burroughs
Franz Kafka
Mark Twain
I write like
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
Thomas Jefferson
Ralph Ellison
Virginia Woolf
I hope at this point, you can see where I'm going with this. I started putting in the names of famous female writers, both white female writers and women of color, and posted up the results here. It's completely unscientific and unordered, people are listed in the order they popped into my head to try.
Toni Morrison
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Sappho
Dorothy Parker
bell hooks
Isabel Allende
Zora Neale Hurston
Alice Walker
Sandra Cisneros
Maxine Hong Kingston
Octavia Butler
Ursula K Leguin
Willa Cather
Madeleine L'Engle
Shahrnush Parsipur
Phyllis Wheatley
I write like
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
Shirley Jackson
Sylvia Plath
Arundhati Roy
E Nesbit
Lucy Maud Montgomery
ETA for those of you coming from Roger Ebert's Twitter, there are two follow-up posts:
Rhetorically Constructed
My Father Writes Like Me
I recommend you read before commenting because they have additional information. Thanks!
I also want to thank you, Mr. Ebert, for linking.
Mirrored from Antagonia.net.
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Date: 2010-07-13 07:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-13 09:37 pm (UTC)It seemed like, when I'd google looking for Top X Authors, I'd get people that you were pointing out as missing (Toni Morrison, Agatha Christie, and so on.), so I would rule out that list as being used in the meme.
So, perhaps this is more like top authors according to the meme writer?
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Date: 2010-07-13 10:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-13 10:18 pm (UTC)