# Female/Shemale: The Quiz **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916 "2002-03-30T13:16:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/1 "2002-03-30T13:16:08Z")
How slick are your powers of [observation](http://b3ta.com/femaleorshemale/)? 12/16 here…I demand a recount! ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/2 "2002-03-30T13:24:45Z")
14/16 🙂 I got fooled by the blond who looked like she was having something unpleasant done to her anal, and the one on the upper right who just looks like a girl. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/3 "2002-03-30T13:28:34Z")
11/16. You’d think that as a woman I’d be able to tell a little better than that. ---
**Author:** ![rubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@rubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rubes)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/4 "2002-03-30T13:48:03Z")
14/16, I missed the bottom two ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/5 "2002-03-30T14:54:36Z")
13 of 16. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/6 "2002-03-30T15:00:45Z")
12/16 3 of them I thought were women but were actually men, and one of them was a woman but I thought she was a man. ---
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/7 "2002-03-30T15:02:57Z")
13/16 But those wrong 3 will worry me next time I’m on a date! ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/8 "2002-03-30T15:07:35Z")
8/16. I’m a pushover. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/9 "2002-03-30T15:17:13Z")
13/16 ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/10 "2002-03-30T15:34:37Z")
Personally, I find the whole thing offensive. As far as I can tell, **all** of them are female; none of them are men. The author is making the double error of assuming that all transgenders are “shemales” and that shemales are “men”. Neither statement is true. This site spreads ignorance, rather than combating it. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/11 "2002-03-30T15:51:36Z")
Ok, just how did y’all get a score? I only saw a reset button. (And I tried Netscape, Mozilla and IE5) ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/12 "2002-03-30T15:55:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KellyM \* > \*\* This site spreads ignorance, rather than combating it. \*\* Which is why I posted it (like the [Mueller Invitational thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=106448) by Jack Batty) in MPSIMS. Apologies if anyone was offended though… ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/13 "2002-03-30T16:02:50Z")
Nevermind, I retried it in IE and it worked. 6/16 Given that I’m not overly fond of the premise myself, I don’t mind that score at all. ---
**Author:** ![moe.ron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@moe.ron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moe.ron)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/14 "2002-03-30T17:11:53Z")
9/16 Yikes!!! I’ll never trust another woman unless she shows me the goods (all of them)!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/15 "2002-03-30T18:04:54Z")
## Hmm, 14 out of 16. I think Jerry Springer has had better ones than that… my hit rate on those episodes were much lower. **Kelly** , “_The author is making the double error of assuming that all transgenders are ‘shemales’ and that shemales are ‘men’. Neither statement is true. This site spreads ignorance, rather than combating it._” Eh. I think you are making the same mistake in the other direction. There are certianly a lot of men who simply dress up like women. We cannot tell which are which by inspection, so there is really no way we can avoid being ignorant here. But if you find it offensive, well, nothing to argue about that (not saying I do, just syaing: what can I say?). Heh, I took it a second time and corrected one of my errors, but the blond who looks like she’s getting it doggie fooled me _again_. Maybe I should ask her out on a date. ---
**Author:** ![quixotic78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3ab097/32.png) [@quixotic78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quixotic78)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/16 "2002-03-30T18:21:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KellyM \* > \*\*Personally, I find the whole thing offensive. As far as I can tell, **all** of them are female; none of them are men. The author is making the double error of assuming that all transgenders are “shemales” and that shemales are “men”. Neither statement is true. This site spreads ignorance, rather than combating it. \*\* I find this post odd, considering that the same poster posted the following in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?&threadid=105721&perpage=50&pagenumber=2) thread > [@](#): > > **No, they awarded the Best Picture award to a movie with a “retard”. The Academy is unreasonably infatuated with movies about mental illness (“retard movies”). I use the term (which I damn well know is un-PC and likely to offend fluffy-puffy therapist types) because I think the Academy’s position in this regard is silly.** Once again–very odd. Color me 😕 Quix ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/17 "2002-03-30T18:32:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by erislover \* > **Eh. I think you are making the same mistake in the other direction. There are certianly a lot of men who simply dress up like women.** Men who “simply dress up like women” **are not shemales**. The term **shemale** is derogatory and refers to a preoperative transsexual who participates in either prostitution or pornography. The term is on a par with “whore” and is, standing along, very offensive. Using the term “shemale” to refer generically to transgenders is extremely offensive and is akin to calling all women “bitches”. See what I mean about spreading ignorance? Oh, and **quixotic** : my use of “retard” in that other thread was intended to be deliberately offensive. Do not confuse rhetorical purpose with casual insult. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/18 "2002-03-30T19:09:37Z")
13/16. For some reason, I can usually tell by the eyes. I can’t describe it, but women’s eyes are different. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/19 "2002-03-30T21:18:59Z")
15/16. I beat alla y’all so far. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916/20 "2002-03-30T22:09:57Z")
I shudder to think of the implications, **Geobabe.** [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-shemale-the-quiz/100916.md?page=2)