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




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

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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?


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