Thursday, June 26, 2003
Euh...Blogger changed. I'm sure that I'll manage to fuck this up within a reasonable amount of time.
Now, I found the Gender Test at Emme's blog and decided to give it a try. And, like Emme, I found that I am actually a man. Who would have known?! Just because I'd rather be lonely for the rest of my life than bleed to death? However well-meant, a test like this is both predictable and inaccurate. Firstly because, well, I am a woman. Really. Secondly, going through the test again, choosing "soft" (the circle over the square) and social answers (company over loneliness etc.) I can "make" the quiz believe I am a woman. Tests like this do not cater for social, racial, national and cultural diversity.
My point is that I sometimes get sick of the way assumptions are made about what women want or how men behave only from their gender. Yes, there are obviously common characteristics for women (and men), but that does not mean that I necessarily prefer a blue bedroom over a white! (Which I don't.) I am Charlotte. I'd rather fall to my death than drown. Yet I am a woman. Please don't assume otherwise.
Now, I found the Gender Test at Emme's blog and decided to give it a try. And, like Emme, I found that I am actually a man. Who would have known?! Just because I'd rather be lonely for the rest of my life than bleed to death? However well-meant, a test like this is both predictable and inaccurate. Firstly because, well, I am a woman. Really. Secondly, going through the test again, choosing "soft" (the circle over the square) and social answers (company over loneliness etc.) I can "make" the quiz believe I am a woman. Tests like this do not cater for social, racial, national and cultural diversity.
My point is that I sometimes get sick of the way assumptions are made about what women want or how men behave only from their gender. Yes, there are obviously common characteristics for women (and men), but that does not mean that I necessarily prefer a blue bedroom over a white! (Which I don't.) I am Charlotte. I'd rather fall to my death than drown. Yet I am a woman. Please don't assume otherwise.
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