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Are you sexist?
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Gnome Scat
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I feel like some of these questions are a little bit trapping. I want to provide for the women in my life if I'm able to because I care about them, not because they are women. I think any good man would feel the same. If they worded it along the lines of strict, conservative social or insecurities towards women providing for men then I think they could get more accurate results.
I got 0.5 on both. That was a REALLY dumb and way too short survey though.
I feel like the survey should have included some similar questions about both genders because the things that I didn't "strongly disagree" with would have still had the same score if they asked the Same question about the other gender.
I feel like the survey should have included some similar questions about both genders because the things that I didn't "strongly disagree" with would have still had the same score if they asked the Same question about the other gender.
0.83 and 0.5. I think I subconsciously felt I was picking strongly disagree too many times so I did a different choice occasionally.
It's also way too easy to see the point summation method, and some questions (like "should a man provide for his woman") can be agreed with but miss their corollary if you think the reverse could be true too.
I noticed this thread was a necro before I started typing but whatever.
It's also way too easy to see the point summation method, and some questions (like "should a man provide for his woman") can be agreed with but miss their corollary if you think the reverse could be true too.
I noticed this thread was a necro before I started typing but whatever.
Count Dookkake
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This is a very good point. Pretty much all the answers would be the same, except for the one about feminists. I guess that could be replaced with MRAs or something.
The way to "win" is to strongly disagree with everything, if that wasn't already obvious.
In any case, some of the questions I wasn't sure if it was talking about any individual woman, women as a whole, or women as compared to men. Like the "exaggerating problems at work", everyone does it not just women. Questions like those I chose "somewhat disagree", because they could've been worded better.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
0.67 hostile sexism
1.83 benevolent sexism
Wait...that's way too high for what I was thinking. Shame on me
Didn't remember taking this before. My new results are
0 Hostile sexism
1.17 Benovelent sexism. Improvements motherfuckers!
chaobreaker
Member
Basically, if you made your answers based on the handful of women you met on your life and decided to generalize the billion of other women in the world because of these personal anecdotes, then you're sexist.
I got all zeroes FYI. It wasn't hard.
I got 0 and 1.8, but mostly because the wording is pretty terrible on the benevolent sexism.
You can adore and cherish someone without thinking of them as weak, inferior or as property. Also the strongly disagree to those questions could come from someone who thinks women should be independent of men, or from someone who thinks that women are disposable trash.
Also, the "women in your life" questions includes my daughter, so yes I think that I should make sacrifices to financially provide for her.
You can adore and cherish someone without thinking of them as weak, inferior or as property. Also the strongly disagree to those questions could come from someone who thinks women should be independent of men, or from someone who thinks that women are disposable trash.
Also, the "women in your life" questions includes my daughter, so yes I think that I should make sacrifices to financially provide for her.
Permanently A
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Heh, I forgot I took this already and did it again. Then I scrolled down the thread to see I had the same results as last time.
Count Dookkake
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Eh, I know it's fun to point the finger, but I think you are making a bit of a leap here. That said, I'm open to being shown that I am wrong. If you'd like, pick any of the questions and I'll explain my answer. Maybe that will help to clear up the confusion here.
protomouse
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0.17 hostile, 1.83 benevolent.
I'mma put "Benevolent sexist" on my resume.
I'mma put "Benevolent sexist" on my resume.
Trigonometrize.
Member
I think it was designed to catch people that think they're not sexist finding themselves not necessarily, hostile, but benevolent because they didn't consider that sexism takes on more forms than "I want all women to die."
unknownhero
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these questions could be worded way better then they are. They all feel like bait questions.
Inkvoterad
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0
0.5
this was the weirdest quiz. it was basically "do you agree with this highly sexist notion or not".
0.5
this was the weirdest quiz. it was basically "do you agree with this highly sexist notion or not".
Yeah, I got 0, 0.
It asks me to give answers with regard to all men and women, that's dumb. I hate generalizing. 0.83 on both. I mean I'm not going to strongly disagree because I'm sure at least some people are guilty of pulling that shit, male and female. Strongly disagreeing would be like saying 0 people do these things, in regards to this test. Reason being you'd score a 0 if you always pick that.
It doesn't do that very well though. If this was strictly a quiz on benevolent sexism, dropping all of the "I want women to die" bait questions that give you the hostile sexism score, you would get a 0 for benevolent sexism if you answered from the perspective of someone who wishes that women didn't exist.
pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
.83 Hostile Sexism
.33 Benevolent Sexism
Girls are just humans. Equally flawed as dudes.
These questions were super dumb though. It's actively guilt tripping you into choosing strongly disagree each time just by the way they're phrased.
Need to be more "scenario" based.
.33 Benevolent Sexism
Girls are just humans. Equally flawed as dudes.
These questions were super dumb though. It's actively guilt tripping you into choosing strongly disagree each time just by the way they're phrased.
Need to be more "scenario" based.
thesoapster
Member
0.33 for both...but those questions were ridiculous.
This, also the questions are geared as "Are all *gender* this way?" so you're being asked these questions in a way to force you to generalise which is just going to lead to a toxic mindset anyway.
Stallion Dan
Member
Those questions are some real bullshit questions and the interpretations of the answers can be all over.
perfectchaos007
Member
I got a 3.5, and a 2.5
I apparently have work to do
I apparently have work to do
Trigonometrize.
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Yeah, I was just going off of how it displays the results in the report card. It's probably not successful in anything it tried to do with the way the questions were set up.
Eh, interpreting the questions as asking "Are all gender this way" seems incorrect. Generalizations are toxic only when you're so extreme as to say that all gender is this way, but that is only one way of generalizing. Saying "women tend to be this way" is a statement you can make without being a sexist pig as long as you're looking at the WHY and the HOW we can fix it. It won't apply to everyone, but it lets us frame how society works and what ought to be changed. I don't think the questions were asking on a level more extreme than that.
Yeah, this quiz works better if you implicitly add in "in general" and "compared to men." Do women exaggerate their problems more than men, do women control their partners more than men, etc. Although even then I feel like I'd map the "[slightly/somewhat/strongly] disagree" half of the spectrum to mean "men do this worse," and so the nonsexist response would be a "neither agree nor disagree."
But for instance, "Every man ought to have a woman whom he adores": I agree with that statement. "Every man out to have a woman whom he adores, to a greater extent than he should be adoring other men and women should be adoring men," I can kind of see how that would be less of an agreeable statement. Although even then, I feel like in a perfect world the average man would have one more adored woman in his life than adored men (two parents and some number of children/siblings in a statisically random gender distribution, but one partner who's more likely to be female). But not moreso than a woman should have a man whom she adores.
But for instance, "Every man ought to have a woman whom he adores": I agree with that statement. "Every man out to have a woman whom he adores, to a greater extent than he should be adoring other men and women should be adoring men," I can kind of see how that would be less of an agreeable statement. Although even then, I feel like in a perfect world the average man would have one more adored woman in his life than adored men (two parents and some number of children/siblings in a statisically random gender distribution, but one partner who's more likely to be female). But not moreso than a woman should have a man whom she adores.
the-pi-guy
Member
A lot of these questions are painted with a sexist notion, but are vague enough that they could also be not sexist.
They are on the level of "do you think women argue?". Well yes, because I think most people argue. And then it's like you're "this" sexist.
I got a 0 on both of course. I'm not sexist.
They are on the level of "do you think women argue?". Well yes, because I think most people argue. And then it's like you're "this" sexist.
I got a 0 on both of course. I'm not sexist.
Apparently I have slightly benevolent sexism. But this important government message set me straight.
https://youtu.be/LS37SNYjg8w
https://youtu.be/LS37SNYjg8w
I don't think the results mean much tbh.
Glass Shark
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Im honestly terrified that anyone on this site got higher than a 0 on the first score.
Like, whats wrong with you?
Like, whats wrong with you?
perfectchaos007
Member
I had slightly agree and slightly disagree for most answers. Centrist answers were punished as usual
Trigonometrize.
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Glass Shark
Banned
I took every question with the compared to men approach which is pretty clearly meant to be the intent based on how the results are calculated.
I would think about it this way: "Is [insert trait or behavior] prevalent enough among women to make it a gendered trait or behavior?" As someone else said, the questions are designed to see how comfortable you are generalizing women, either for positive or negative reasons. The answer "strongly disagree" in this context means: "No, this is not a gendered trait." Meaning, men and women exhibit this behavior to the same extent. And anything less means: "Yeah, I feel comfortable attributing this trait to women in general, to at least some extent."
The Shadow
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Although I answered honestly, whoever made the test needed to do a better job mixing up responses. After the first few times I answered "Disagree Strongly", I though something was wrong with the site script.
Edit:
Coincidentally, the only question I didn't disagree strongly with, was the one that said every man should meet/know about an inspirational woman (or something like that).
Edit:
Coincidentally, the only question I didn't disagree strongly with, was the one that said every man should meet/know about an inspirational woman (or something like that).
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