Can you often tell sex from writing style in relationship threads?

[JadziaD]

whenever the TWAW types are out there, there's always lots of statements about how we (women) can't tell who are TW and who are biological women. And we all say that categorically, we can (or at least, in 99% of cases).

I realised today that it's not even just about how someone looks and moves, it's how they speak too. How often on a thread where the genders are vague or not specified can you tell which ones are a woman and which ones are a man? It's so common. there's just something in the way the posts are written and, particularly when it's about relationships, in the way responsibility is/is not taken or blame is/is not allocated.

And then those same men complain that if they were a woman with the same issue they'd get a very different response. But ther eality is that the response they get is because we can all sense the different. The one I see the most is that when a woman posts, she thinks maybe she IS responsible or to blame, she feels bad about her part on whatever it is that's gone wrong, she twists herself into pretzels to see his side....

... when the post is from a man, they're dogmatic, never accept responsibility (except occassionaly vague things like, "I accept there were faults on both sides... but"), and get SO defensive and SO aggressive SO quickly.

Men are men are men are men.

Research suggests that people can tell the sex of people from writing style with about 80% accuracy.

It is stereotyping, but it's a stereotype that's relatively accurate because the way we communicate is socialized to a fairly extreme extent.

When I was young and fed up of being patronised, I used to post on anonymous forums without specifying my sex. I found men tended to assume I was male and women tended to assume I was female.

Went out of the window when I had babies and wanted to talk about the uniquely female experiences that involved.

Ah yes, because women only write in dainty little paragraphs.
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No, people on here can't usually tell and "Urg. Man" gets thrown about all the time, usually when it's someone posting in disagreement with a comment.