[Meme] silly gender quiz thingy

[edenfalling]

Gacked from proanon

You scored as Male. Being mostly male, within your structures of thinking simply means that your reasoning powers are (the way they are perceived in Western Culture`) higher than the one of the opposite sex. Psychoanalsis claims this to come at the price of creative expression - a rational thinker can not think out of the box, it is claimed. Yet this 'discovery' contradicts the fact that many great minds that created something out of the ordinary were men. </td> Male 54% Either 54% Neither 46% Female 39% Should you be MALE or FEMALE?* created with QuizFarm.com

This amuses me, since most writing analysis things I've done identify me as very strongly female. And yet here I am, supposedly thinking like a man.

I tend to think that some of this is because thinking 'like a man' is the default in Western culture, which makes thinking 'like a woman' somewhat more limited, because it's defined in opposition to standards rather than being its own standard. Also, I am amused that 'male' thinking apparently means I cannot think outside the box, and am not creative... especially since I'm a writer (and have, at times, also been a musician and very bad artist), and since my writing focuses heavily on interpersonal relationships and families. :-)

Comments

[proanon.livejournal.com]

"Writing analysis things"? Such as what? I did something like that in a class once - the teacher had everyone write "something creative" for a minute or two, then read them off and had us guess if the writer was male or female. Then we did it again, knowing what the exercise was about. Both times, no one could seem to decide which one mine were. (We had an overall success rate in guessing of about 50%.)

I do agree with you on the whole "thinking like a man" thing being a default, though...