I was looking at my 13 year old sister’s  Facebook page today to check up on the youngins, and keep up with what’s hip with the youths, and I spotted a quiz titled, “how boyish/girlish are you?”. Naturally, I took the quiz.

Turns out that both me and my sister are androgynous.

I had three distinct reactions to this quiz.

1) How AMAZING that a quiz is allowing kids to identify their masculine and feminine qualities, and allow for the fact that all people have personality traits that have been classically assigned to one or the other gender. Even the idea that people have qualities of both genders is truly progressive….

but then in reading the actual quiz, I had reaction#2

2) What the??$#%$?^%$^?%$# The quiz assigns behaviors that are aggressive/violent/criminal as “boyish”, and behaviors that are passive/boring/ as female. Ergh. No wonder domestic violence is the number one cause of death for females in America.

3) I LOVED that there was a question where the kid could identify themselves in whatever way they pleased. This allows for self-identification of gender/personality traits as opposed to gender assigned by sex organs.

Here is the quiz in its raw form…..Any other reactions?

How Boyish are you? And how girly are you?

1. What do you do in spare time?

Play outside with friends and pick flowers

Play with dolls

Listen to the ipod or mp3 player

Prank people

Play videos games

2. On a scale through 1-5, how would you say that you act like a girl? (Be honest)

3. On a scale through 1-5, how much would you say you act like a boy? (Be honest)

4. Someone takes your chair? What do you do or say to them?

Get off or else!

GET THE F$%*@ OUT OF MY F$%*@ING SEAT YOU F$%*@ING MORON!

Go to another seat. Who cares?

Push him off. I had it first.

Sit in another seat and watch him.

5. Which one of these movie genres would you prefer?

Comedy

Adventure

Horror

Sci-Fi

Action