I also failed it and it suggested that I might be a girl. There are times I can tell; I suspected Tiptree back in the day and knew for sure with "The Women Men Don't See," because, well, men really don't see those women.
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Ginger - Jun 02, 2011 1:23:39 pm PDT #15043 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Amy - Jun 02, 2011 1:23:54 pm PDT #15044 of 28333
Because books.
I got five out of ten on that quiz, and that was mostly pure guessing.
I had a sort of mixed media feminist lit class with a professor I loved at Hunter. We watched Camille and one of the early Joan of Arc movies, and read Emma and Antony and Cleopatra. There was also a book of essays which is out of print now -- it's packed up somewhere.
JZ - Jun 02, 2011 1:27:18 pm PDT #15045 of 28333
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I got 3 out of 10. I think I reverse-reverse psychologied myself out of a few correct answers, where something read as so thoroughly male that I figured the test-makers were trying to make us second-guess ourselves and think we were outsmarting them by choosing "female," only to have it turn out it actually was written by a male-type person. And then it turned out it actually was written by a woman.
Or something. Anyhow, I talked myself out of at least three correct answers based not on the texts but on what I thought the test-writers thought I would think of the texts.
Amy - Jun 02, 2011 1:29:56 pm PDT #15046 of 28333
Because books.
I did that on the last question, JZ.
P.M. Marc - Jun 02, 2011 1:32:24 pm PDT #15047 of 28333
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I also failed. And assumed VS Naipaul's paragraph was written by a woman.
Consuela - Jun 02, 2011 1:33:49 pm PDT #15048 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I guessed blindly, didn't even try to think them through, as I recognized none of them. And because I have so frequently had my writing taken for male that I figured there was no point in trying to guess.
sumi - Jun 02, 2011 1:42:21 pm PDT #15049 of 28333
Art Crawl!!!
I got 50% and it told me that I need to read more books by men.
Polter-Cow - Jun 02, 2011 1:47:16 pm PDT #15050 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I got 50% and it told me that I need to read more books by men.
I got 60% and it said the same thing. I think this is just one big scam to get us to read more books by men.
megan walker - Jun 02, 2011 1:52:13 pm PDT #15051 of 28333
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I got 7 out of 10 and it did not tell me I need to read more books by men.
Ginger - Jun 02, 2011 1:53:28 pm PDT #15052 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
VS Naipaul, Nicholas Sparks and Salman Rushdie write like women. Neener, neener. Also, their mothers dress them funny.