# Take the Gender Test! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 2, 2001, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854 "2001-02-02T13:19:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/41 "2001-02-02T20:50:06Z")
Well, it guessed right (guy) but the picture I got at the end looked like a guy wearing his wife’s clothes. Does the picture reflect how far over the slide bar you are? I was on the guy side, but not far right. ``` Well, we have a lot of women complaining they were masculinized. Do you think this is a problem with the test or that the guys who were picked as women just don't want to admit it? ``` ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/42 "2001-02-02T21:59:35Z")
Can I just say: _Damn_, I feel so butch. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/43 "2001-02-02T22:04:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Well, we have a lot of women complaining they were masculinized. Do you think this is a problem with the test or that the guys who were picked as women just don’t want to admit it? I suspect it indicates that they don’t have the first fraction of a clue about how women really think. I don’t think it’s that we’ve been “masculinized” so much as it is that the test is so “feminized” that women who do not answer as ultra-femme women would, do not register as women at all. OR maybe we all REALLY ARE MEN, and we’ve been fooling you all all along! Ever think of _that_??? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/44 "2001-02-02T22:44:33Z")
Hey, they guessed right, I’m male. My wife will be relieved. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/45 "2001-02-02T22:52:59Z")
It correctly identified me as male, but then showed me a graphic of a man wearing a skirt. For some reason, that concerns me. I gotta legitimize the equipment, like soon. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/46 "2001-02-02T23:16:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pldennison \* > \*\*Weird. It told me I am definitely a man (which I am). Then it gave examples of the differences between how men and women answer some of the questions–and for every single one, I had chosen the answers they say that women prefer. \*\* Same thing for me, and according to the test I’m barely a man. I think five questions the other way and they’d have told me I was a woman. I just don’t know how my godmother is going to deal with the fact that she’s a man. Her husband must be quite confused. ---
**Author:** ![Nimue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/47 "2001-02-02T23:20:16Z")
I found this amusing. It guessed my gender correctly, though, despite my preference to bleed slowly to death than to be lonely forever. ---
**Author:** ![CyberHippy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@CyberHippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyberHippy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/48 "2001-02-02T23:20:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lurkernomore \* > \*\* Well, it guessed right (guy) but the picture I got at the end looked like a guy wearing his wife’s clothes. Does the picture reflect how far over the slide bar you are? I was on the guy side, but not far right. > \*\* Same situation here, still male by proxy but apparently barely so by their defenition! Hmmm… perhaps that’s why all my pot pipes are so phallic? Nah, still can’t get excited about groping or kissing a man :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/49 "2001-02-02T23:27:45Z")
I, too, am I man. But barely. I wonder which monkey each gender prefers. I was rooting for the flying one on the right. ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/50 "2001-02-02T23:34:39Z")
Yay! The test correctly guessed I am a woman, even with my manly answers. 1. I’d rather fall to my death than drown. 2. I’d rather bleed to death than be forever lonely. 3. I think “used” is a grosser word than “moist”. That test can root out the truth!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/51 "2001-02-02T23:51:20Z")
Hell, I picked drowning over falling, white bedroom over blue, and bleeding to death over being lonely forever (I can always make a tournequit, even if I can’t spell it). I’m still a woman, apparentily. Huh. That’s what I get for hating sport so much, I guess. 🙂 **Soda** said > [@](#): > > Apparently, I’m a man. Funny, I always figured men came equipped with penises. Maybe it will pop out if I jump around a bit… Try taking a deep, DEEP breath, holding your nose, closing your mouth, then trying to blow out. That should do it. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/52 "2001-02-02T23:54:53Z")
monster, those were my answers, too . . . ? ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/53 "2001-02-03T00:04:02Z")
> [@](#): > > It all adds up… You are definitely a woman! > > How do we know? Well, deep down, your gender affects everything about you, from your favorite number to your views on Canada. Using the previous takers of the Gender Test, our patented Geni-Tell technology has discovered the subtle, surprising differences between male and female. > > It’s sooo obvious you’re a chick. Whew! For a second there I thought I would have to change my UserName to **not-a-lady bug**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/54 "2001-02-03T00:27:55Z")
Apparently I am a man. Anyone want to donate their penis for a transplant. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jcp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@jcp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jcp)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/55 "2001-02-03T01:02:14Z")
Well, i’m one of the guys who is apparently not!!! I take it as a compliment – We defy stereotypes… ---
**Author:** ![jeyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a4c791/32.png) [@jeyen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeyen)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/56 "2001-02-03T01:17:53Z")
…which is interesting because, in my world, “dude” is a gender-neutral word. I always knew I was a man! And I have the 36Fs to prove it! Jeyen ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/57 "2001-02-03T03:01:49Z")
This is very difficult for me, but I can’t hide it any longer. I won’t lie to my fellow Dopers any more… I am a woman. Yup. The test says it, so it must be true. They even want my input: > [@](#): > > People like you, who walk the scary line between man and woman, are _very_ helpful in understanding exactly what makes someone fucked up. Thanks, and good luck. :: shakes head in disbelief :: [sup]I just don’t get it…I’d rather fall to my death, I print, Black Jack is a better porn name, I even picked onion rings for cryin’ out loud![/sup] ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/58 "2001-02-03T03:20:06Z")
Funny it said I am a woman and although I have man-boobs I also have the male dangly bits and am a man, so this site is messed up. Notice I didn’t say retarted ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/59 "2001-02-03T03:36:06Z")
I first testicled as a Man, Then went back and tweaked a few obvious variables, and came out a woman, which by all curvaceous trajectory, I have always appeared to be. The variables were: Use Cursive Stay Put Happy Ending Drown Used Painkillers:Yes What the hell is that? Who are the women they use as the norm? And, on the second go round, the graphic was a paste-up of some guy in a suit looking like he was going to fist-up a baby goat. I thought,“Aww, cute l’il goatie”, but, really, these folks are a bit cranked. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854/60 "2001-02-03T03:59:59Z")
Guessed me right. Although I do have a penis. It’s just not attatched to me. I’m loaning it to my husband. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gender-test/52854.md?page=4)