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.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
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 28286
"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 28286
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 28286
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 28286
Because books.
I did that on the last question, JZ.
P.M. Marc - Jun 02, 2011 1:32:24 pm PDT #15047 of 28286
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 28286
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 28286
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 28286
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 28286
"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 28286
"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.