Burton MacKenzie, a blogger in Canada, claims to have cracked open the dark, twisted secret that is Ann Coulter and discovered that she is, in fact, a he. MacKenzie's argument? Not only does she... he... Coulter allegedly have an Adam's apple (pictured right from MacKenzie's blog), but the Gender Guesser, an online writing analyzer ("As Demonstrated at Black Hat Briefings, 2006"), spits out a big fat "MALE" when it takes a gander at her written work. Well, if the Internet says it, it must be true!
Actually, we don't know what Coulter's gender has to do with her making us want to turn off the TV every time we see her, but in the interests of specious, unverifiable science, we ran a couple tests with the Gender Guesser for ourselves. In our limited trials, confirmed-fake-dude-and-writer George Eliot came up "MALE" and romance novelist extraordinaire Barbara Taylor Bradford only came up as half "MALE," half "WEAK FEMALE," which seems unlikely. So all in all, we're pretty iffy on the Gender Guesser's value as, well, what it says it is. Maybe y'all could have a look and tell us what you get?