Several years ago I’d read an article that said it was easy to identify the gender of an author, even if you didn’t know the name, simply by counting the use of the pronoun “I.” Women apparently use it more than men in their writing.1 Much extrapolation was made of this on Twitter and elsewhere, and so I took it upon myself to try not to use “I” so much …
© 2025 Julie R Neidlinger
Substack is the home for great culture