bob the angry flower and sex-role memery

[iridium]

from asarwate, who reminds me every few months to go catch up on Bob: Narnia!
and 'We are not abandoning America to GIANT SPIDERS!!'

from deedeebythebay:
Bem Sex Role Inventory Test

"The Bem Sex Role Inventory was developed in 1971 by Dr. Sandra Lipsitz Bem. It characterizes your personality as masculine, feminine, androgynous, or undifferentiated. The BSRI is based on gender stereotypes, so what it's actually measuring is how well you fit into your traditional sex role. Thus, your score says as much about how our cultural expectations have changed over the last 35 years as it does about your personality."

Androgynous You scored 76 masculinity and 63 femininity!

You scored high on both masculinity and femininity. You have a strong personality exhibiting characteristics of both traditional sex roles.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender : You scored higher than 81% on masculinity You scored higher than 59% on femininity

Link: The Bem Sex Role Inventory Test written by weirdscience on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Comments

[asarwate.livejournal.com]

Hehe. I really do think reinvestigating failure as an option is important though...

[iridium.livejournal.com]

well, yes. though possibly not if failure means being overrun by GIANT SPIDERS!!

[violin.livejournal.com]

Androgynous
You scored 50 masculinity and 73 femininity!
You scored high on both masculinity and femininity. You have a strong personality exhibiting characteristics of both traditional sex roles.

I didn't get all that extra info, though-- perhaps because I wasn't logged in or because I have scripting disabled.

[violin.livejournal.com]

I suppose you could take some pride in being Butcher than Adam. But really, who isn't?

[iridium.livejournal.com]

well, yeah. :) but that's ok.

interestingly, i think most of the women i know who've taken it have scored androgynous (mostly with masculine higher) or masculine. i only have 2 data points for men, and y'all both scored with femininity higher. as the test says, i think it likely just says more about 'traditional' gender roles and the construction of the test (and the ways in which accepted-behavior has shifted) than the test-takers themselves.

I didn't get all that extra info, though-- perhaps because I wasn't logged in or because I have scripting disabled.

the latter, i think. i wasn't logged in either.