Woman's world: Mr Gaynor as Vikki-Marie
A transsexual is seeking thousands of pounds in damages after claiming he was forced out of his job as a truck driver when he starting dressing as a woman.
Vikki-Marie Gaynor, 37, who was born a man, claims bosses started cancelling his shifts when he dropped his old name, Mike, and started wearing women's clothes, earrings and make-up to work.
The former soldier, who has been married twice and has a teenage daughter, was taunted by other drivers who made rude gestures towards him, it is alleged.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=470183&in_page_id=1770 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=470183&in_page_id=1770)
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He, his, Mr.,and him. You'd think they could start getting the pronouns right by now.
I know it happens, but reading this type of story is just as disgusting as ever. I wish her the best of luck.
Posted on: July 22, 2007, 10:25:55 PM
I went to the gender genie that everyone is talking about and I entered this article which was by Liz Hull who I assume is a female. This is what I got.
Words: 607
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)
Female Score: 659
Male Score: 728
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
try again
Analysis
Feminine Keywords Masculine Keywords
[with] 6 x 52 = 312 [around] 0 x 42 = 0
[if] 1 x 47 = 47 [what] 0 x 35 = 0
[not] 3 x 27 = 81 [more] 0 x 34 = 0
[where] 0 x 18 = 0 [are] 1 x 28 = 28
[be] 1 x 17 = 17 [as] 11 x 23 = 253
[when] 3 x 17 = 51 [who] 5 x 19 = 95
[your] 0 x 17 = 0 [below] 0 x 8 = 0
[her] 0 x 9 = 0 [is] 6 x 8 = 48
[we] 2 x 8 = 16 [these] 0 x 8 = 0
[should] 1 x 7 = 7 [the] 14 x 7 = 98
[she] 0 x 6 = 0 [a] 24 x 6 = 144
[and] 25 x 4 = 100 [at] 1 x 6 = 6
[me] 4 x 4 = 16 [it] 4 x 6 = 24
[myself] 0 x 4 = 0 [many] 0 x 6 = 0
[hers] 0 x 3 = 0 [said] 2 x 5 = 10
[was] 12 x 1 = 12 [above] 0 x 4 = 0
[to] 11 x 2 = 22
I guess the reporter is not much of a lady herself.
She's lucky they didn't kill her.
Driving truck is not for the meek.
Harrassment of females or even rape is commonplace.
This story has a comment section. be sure to let the daily-mail know how you feel about improper pronoun usage. I did.
Quote from: Kate Alice on July 23, 2007, 12:35:18 AM
This story has a comment section. be sure to let the daily-mail know how you feel about improper pronoun usage. I did.
me too. i used my non de plume of 'robot fog'
I left a comment as well but it was not posted. I suspect it was screened out. I bet if I were to write something in favor of the bigotry, like the person from dallas who got his comment posted, I would succeed in getting that displayed. I doubt any comments against the article will be posted. I picked that link up from Drudge Report that gets I don't know how many millions of hits per day, so the fact there is only one negative comment so far is hopeful.
I went back and saw the negative comment and I wrote another one that basically attacked Mr. Texas. If they won't print my real comment, I'll bet they print this one because it attacks somebody.
I was robotfog for that one too. Although, I should be using my other name of 'Jack Human' for these socially conscious posts.
I may go back and post the fact that their 'female' writer shows as being male on gender genie. Heh heh. I know this is going nowhere, but, what the heck?
The Reeb