[❇ Abby ❇]

Well, there's 20 minutes of my life down the drain... not that I had any other expectation than a little entertainment, mind you.

It didn't come up with any results at all when I clicked "intersex"; a "0 raw score androgynous, not a candidate for transition" for male, and "0 raw score bisexual crossdresser" for female.

Some of the questions were mildly amusing, but as every other one of these tests I've ever seen goes, it's mostly a matter of "pick which bullshit stereotypes you think fit you best to get the answer you want".

Math and science are not just a guy thing... my years working amongst the manly men of construction, and in the office environments too, taught me that 90% of people suck at math regardless of their genitalia. 100% of politicians suck at math; that much is obvious just watching how government works.

Not only that, but it's rather insulting to women, I think, to assume that men are automatically better at math. More of the accountants I know are women, and they are, each and every one of them, stellar at math.

It's also foolish to assume that women are better at poetry. How many female poets can you name of the caliber of Longfellow, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Goethe, Kipling? Name one without googling, I dare you. (If someone says Maya Angelou, I'll scream.)

Spelling is not an indication of your gender; it's an indication of whether or not you have a) a functional brain and b) a decent education, and c) not (in all fairness) dyslexic. Just ridiculous.

Or when they ask questions like "You are mostly: Assertive - Independent - Adaptable - Understanding - Compassionate". There is no case to be made that any of those things are mutually exclusive.

Some of the spatial intelligence questions were slightly more on the mark, as overall men do perform slightly better, but when a male performs poorly at spatial reasoning, we'd not so much call him a woman as we'd call him... dull. Believe me, I've known plenty of men of limited spatial intelligence, and there's nothing whatever feminine about them.

And what the everlastin' fill-in-the-blank does your favorite monkey have to do with any damn thing? Is Jane Goodall a man trapped in a woman's body because she studies gorillas?

Ah well. There's my nonsense for the day. Back to work.

Where in the test is the implication, in any way, that mathematics and science is a "guy thing"? I can not find any assumption, anywhere, that men are automatically better at maths? Where does it say that?

I would think anyone (regardless of gender) that spends their working days dealing with mathematics would be professional and practised at it. Using the analogy that the female accountants you know are "stellar at math" is baffling. They are accountants, they should be.

Where does it say "women are better at poetry"?

Spelling might not be an indication of your gender but spelling ability is also not a indicator of your intelligence or access to decent education. Having a form of Dyslexia and Dysgraphia myself I have to work extra hard to be coherent and to correct my spelling.

The question starting "You are mostly:" does not require the answers to be mutually exclusive. It's asking which of the 5 choices you are most like.

Lack of spatial awareness or spatial reasoning has no correlation with intelligence. It has been shown there is a measurable difference between male and female brain patterns using Magnetic resonance imaging when given a spatial awareness test.

Yes the test is full of bad spelling, obviously leading and strange questions but it does not contain assumptions, stereotypes, prejudice or any implied insults.

So in conclusion I have to ask where have they come from?

Denita