This is one of the most stimulating discussions I have ever seen. It is SO SWEET. I am Googling and learning alot... thank you, Glitchens, for teaching love and stimulating my tiny, little mind.
IRL - physically female (but BBC thinks I'm male).
My Glitch is neither, I've been thinking of it as an "it". Although the hairstyle might indicate a female.
I play a girl on TV :/ I'm low-key femme, but only because I couldn't pass as a boy if I tried.
My glitch is...whatever fickles my tancy! Last test, my Glitch was a bumble bee :)
Well I took that BBC test, and all my hopes of ever being professionally androgynous have been crushed. I scored 50% male, which was average for all the males taking the test.
I guess I'll have to figure out how to be unique and interesting in other ways.
Male & Male.
Did the BBC test & apparently I'm a big fat 0... right down the middle LOL
1) More male than male for the angles, more female than female for the differences test.
2) Left thumb on top. Although I'd take issue with anyone who said I was visual & intuitive
3) The questions part says I'm hopelessly male but the eyes part says I'm female
4) Ignoring my left hand, apparently I have male hands
5) Apparently I like feminine faces... although the test freaked me out slightly
6) For both words and shapes I'm more male than male. And what a bunch of meanies... isn't the only way to split the pot 25/25?
BBC test? I'm wary of any test that tells you whether you're male or female. Unless the questions are "DO YOU HAVE A PENIS/VAGINA" then I doubt it can help you determine your sex, and your gender is how you define it, not how society defines it. If you want to wear a sun dress, drive a Jetta, wear pumps and lipstick, stay at home and cook and care for the children, decorate houses on the side, and cover Celine Dion songs during karaoke, but you identify as male, then that's what you are and NO ONE can tell you otherwise.
@Cerulean: I don't think the point of that test is to force societal expectations of gender and sex on the taker, but rather to see whether the psychological differences between men and women hold true and to look at the effects testosterone has on birth order and the brain. When I finished my test it wasn't like, "You are neither male or female, you tranny" but rather, "Your brain is masculine when it comes to spacial recognition, and feminine when it comes to linguistic capabilities." I don't think anyone who takes the test will be like, "OMG, I'm a female but apparently think like a male, should I take oestrogen therapy?" or vice versa. Anyone sane anyway.
And with regards to oestrogen... It should be noted that while testosterone is responsible for secondary sex characteristics in men (facial hair, Adam's apple, broad shoulders, et cetera), healthy oestrogen levels are responsible for male virility. Also, oestrogen is actually the "male" hormone in mice, and no, drinking soymilk will not give men moobs.
It's interesting what different societies expect about gender, sex, and behaviour. "Wakashuudou" and "fa'afafine" are some terms you can Google.
@Liridona: the thing is, many of those difference may still be caused by psychosocial factors. There are many ways to argue this, including the fact that psychosocial elements impact physical and biological brain development. I genuinely believe that if society and the public were truly egalitarian and treated everyone equally, the differences would be extremely minimal both in quantity and "quality," if you will. I know the results of the test can't cause someone rational to suddenly change gender identity, but I do feel that it may reinforce the idea that men and women are much more different than they actually are given all other variables being constant, which opens the door to "separate but equal" and inequality in general.
Also, I have moobs because I'm fat. Soy milk is partially to blame for that, lol. But not because of any abnormal hormonal boosts in growth. I'm just fat and I like soy milk and it adds calories to my intake. :P
@Freeman: I hope your biceps aren't as big as your head, lol. Ahaha... Why Chris Redfield, why!?
@Cerulean: Ah, I totally see where you're coming from now. I agree that environment and upbringing greatly affects sexual and other biological development. My parents definitely had a role in shaping my psyche. For better or for worse...
I did the test way above and it told me I was female.
...I'm male. Although I suppose the test's results could have been influenced by some factors... *cough* taking a screen-shot of the memory game *cough*
Avatar is male.