Memes Now Come with a Full Helping of Sexism

You scored 70 masculinity and 46 femininity!

You scored high on masculinity and low on femininity. You have a traditionally masculine personality.

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

You should read the whole test, but typical questions include:

willing to take risks
-never or almost never
-sometimes
-often
-always or almost always

sensitive to others' needs
-never or almost never
-sometimes
-often
-always or almost always

leadership ability
-never or almost never
-sometimes
-often
-always or almost always

Comments

[Pete]

Great I'm Boy George

Androgynous
You scored 66 masculinity and 50 femininity!
You scored high on both masculinity and femininity. You have a strong personality exhibiting characteristics of both traditional sex roles.

[Roxanne]

Well, Pete. You've always been more kinder, gentler and sensitive than me. NOT.

[Pete]

Ah but I'm in therapy now,
so obviously getting in touch
with my feminine side at last.

I'll have to go out and buy the
KT Tunstall album soon

[carla]

I'm 63 masculine and 46 feminine.

Does that mean we can share a razor, Rox?

[Roxanne]

Do you mean you and me?

I don't share razors. I steal and hide them.

[rose]

I'm more masculine than 55% and more fem than 55%.
painfully stupid question frames.

[bitchphd]

I am both more manly *and* more womanly than Rox: 80 male, 50 female--in the 88th percentile for masculinity and the 20th percentile for femininity. Therefore, I am androgynous.

My analytic masculine side feels the need to point out that as this test relies on self-reporting, it is likely to skew towards masculinity, since people will in general tend to prefer their "high status" qualities and devalue their "low status" qualities.

[sylamore]

I'm 66 masculine and 36 feminine. That's just great. You're more of a man AND more of a woman than I am, Rox. On the positive side, I think this means YOU have to buy the drinks in February when I hit D.C.

[sylamore]

I'm 66 masculine and 36 feminine. That's just great. You're more of a man AND more of a woman than I am, Rox. On the positive side, I think this means YOU have to buy the drinks in February when I hit D.C.

[doghouse riley]

96/46, which I think, if it proves anything, shows that "masculine" values and buying into gender stereotyping are not inextricably linked, and weren't in 1971, either.

Like to see some honest scores from the CWFA board.

[pansauce]

43 masculinity and 66 femininity

What the heck does this mean?

[marie antoinette]

I got 73 masculine, 43 feminine. I see that a lot of us are scoring high in masculine..probably because we're assertive. I'd like to know what the averages of the general population are. I'm sure it's shifted since the '70s.

[Kyra]

Ha ha! 86-36! I piss off the sexists more than you do, merely by existing!

95% masculine, 3% feminine, if I remember the rest of the results properly.

[bryant]

58 masculine/44 feminine...