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Show HN: Toasted – Remove gender bias from your writing
5 points by kawin 2816 days ago
Toasted tells you how gender-specific the tone of your writing is. By following its suggestions, you can tune your writing to better engage with male or female readers.

https://www.isittoasted.com/

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I pasted in several of my more recent blog posts. I seem to be pretty consistently gender-neutral, though sometimes indulge in masculine words like "feeling" and "goal", and in feminine words like "feel" and "daily".
Thanks for taking a look! "Feeling" and "feel" are both pretty close to neutral, but it looks like the different in verb tense is responsible for them being on different halves of the spectrum.
Where does the data come from? How do you determine the gender bias of a word?