And does anyone else find the Boy/Girl bulletin a little odd?
I mean, first of all who doesn't like hoodies? I don't think that would make anyone more of a man. Saying dogs are better than cats isn't manly - just ignorant. And someone being obsessed with Power Rangers only proves they were a child when the show was on - not really an indication of sex. It's like saying that because I love Transformers, I must be a guy, when it really means I was a child in 1984. And I am a complete geek.
I don't know anyone in this country that collected baseball cards.
And yet the girl questions are so stereotypical it's ridiculous; no guy owns a skirt or a dress, and that was used for 2 seperate questions! Talk about desperately trying to be condescending.
Most terrifying of all, though, is the calculations that are then used to determine your 'Male/Female Levels'. Most people scored highly in their own sex (duh), but then some also scored quite well in the opposite sex and gained a total higher than 100%. Brumbys actually scored 126% as a man - double my score - and then a further 28% as a woman. Does this make him twice the man I am? And 1.5 the person the rest of us are? And being a half a person more than anyone, does he have any superpowers???
So if you still feel the need to do this quiz and determine your sex, I have devised my own that should help you:
BOY
[ ] You have a penis
GIRL
[ ] You have a vagina
Now there's two words I never thought I'd ever see me write!
And I realise some people may tick both answers, and they are a special breed of people. They are called "Fashon Designers" and can be seen on a show called Project Runway.
Man I wish TV3 would hurry up and bring that back.
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It's like there's this really strong push going on this decade to try and restore antiquated ideas of 'men as men' and 'women as women', rather than allowing a nice sort of 'do whatever the heck you want and act however the heck you want'.
You should see the WAG culture being created over here - as Lotte puts it, girls and women are being taught to aspire to marry a rich footballer, and that the way to achieve this is by being very skinny, wearing very trendy fashions, having an uber-tan, and peroxiding peroxiding peroxiding. Dumbing down your IQ and pumping up your breasts are also major pluses.
Men, meanwhile, are still meant to want to flick straight to page 3 to see a naked woman, grunt over beer and football, and of course dominate the economy and the corporate sector.
Way to environmentalise the next generation back into the 1950s. Thanks a bunch.
What is the gender test you're referring to? Am curious as to what the other questions are and what I would get (on the proper BBC gender-cognitions test I am smack bang in the middle of traditionally masculine, traditionally feminine).
ok i will email it to you
i scored 63% male and 49% female, so i fell quite nicely in the middle. when you read it, you'll see why i didn't score too high on the male side (i'll send the copy i filled in)
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