Betty's Pub 20.1
Main Menu => Old inactive posts. => Topic started by: Betty on April 26, 2014, 04:15:26 PM
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Another quiz.
http://www.playbuzz.com/gregs/what-gender-should-you-actually-be
I got male.
But in my family, most of the women weren't very feminine. Mom & my sister had only a few dresses that were just worn on special occasions. There were 5 boys, my sister, Mom, & dad in the house. So the guys outnumbered the girls by a lot. My sister usually played with me or the other brothers, doing the same things we did, & rarely played with the dolls. The "Easy Bake Oven" toy was the only girl's toy I ever remember my sister enjoying. But we all liked that one.
My mom did most of the minor repairs & painting inside the house. Even painting/remodeling the rooms, or switching out & fixing light fixtures, & switches, fixing the vacuum, toaster, & other stuff. In the day when most electronics still had some vacuum tubes, my Mom maintained & repaired all the TVs, & radios too. She was also into science, astronomy, & sci-fi. There were lots of science books & full encyclopedias in the house that my Mom bought for her own interests. So in the day before google, if you wanted to look something up, you just went to a book. If you wanted more up to date info, or more on the topic, you went to the library. Almost every neighborhood had one nearby, or in the nearby schools, plus a big main branch/town library that had everything. Science, astronomy, popular mechanics, popular science, & other magazines arrived at the house monthly to keep up on the newest stuff. Daily newspapers were also thick & packed with stuff other than just news. On weekends, it was twice as thick. Many kids in the neighborhood made extra money just delivering them all.
So even if I was born female, a quiz like that would have said I was male, & probably would have said my sister & Mom were male too. I was raised in a very "butch" household compared to most of the time. Most of the women in my family could probably pull a plow with their teeth. So we were all brought up "butch".
Dad was a crane mechanic at the steel plant. He took care of the outside of the house, painting, roofing, building a new porch, plumbing, furnace, & he was our car mechanic. Everybody (guys & girls) in the house knew how to mow the lawn, fix their own bicycles & tire flats, cook, clean, sew holes in socks, or buttons on a shirt, cut hair or glue a toy model car together. We depended on outside contractors, services, or repair people for almost nothing. We did everything ourselves that we needed done.
So I wasn't exposed to much femininity except outside the family, like at some of our neighbors houses, at school, or on TV. If I was born a girl, I probably would have grown up to be a Peppermint Patty type, who happened to like pretty things.
But as the youngest, & smallest of the boys in the house. I got the hand-me-downs. There was a sewing machine in the house, so it meant the clothes would last almost forever. They also knew how to fix shoes & be a shoemaker. So in the 1960s I could be stuck wearing clothes going back to even the 1940s. If I needed some new clothes, or shoes, they dug through big boxes of stuff until they found something that fit good enough. It didn't matter if it wasn't a perfect fit, or it looked like crap, or nobody wore anything like it in a decade or more. Even my underwear was used worn hand-me-downs.
At school they thought we were poor because of what I wore. Nope, they were just too cheap to buy us anything. My childhood bicycle was one from the late 1940s. I had to pick parts out of the neighborhood garbage, & steal them out of a junkyard to get enough parts to get it running. If I didn't, I wouldn't have a bicycle. It wasn't until high school I had a recent model bike, because I bought a used one from a friend out of my own pocket. Years later we were poor when my Dad got sick, & had to go through several operations, that they botched more than fixed anything, but I was much older then.
We had a nice home. New car every 2 years. Nice camping property with a cabin in the country too. But us kids lived in poverty. Parents were raised during the depression & had a rough life then. They also struggled during WWII. So they felt their kids should get nothing too, or it would spoil them. But nobody was raising their kids like that anymore in the 1950s & 60s unless they were poor. Most other people didn't make their children & loved ones go without things they need, or suffer just because they did decades ago. They had closets full of new clothes. Buy your kids clothes, & every kid should have their own bicycle that isn't a broken down ancient antique that they have to fix themselves. Jeeze, no kid in our family ever even got a birthday present. How hard can that be?
In our house you got a choice. Cake or pizza for your birthday, not both, & not anything else. An hour or 2 later, it was all over, except the birthday kid didn't have to do chores that day... which usually meant you had to do twice as much the next day.
I hated what I had to wear. All the kids in school poked fun of them... right down to my old shoes & sneakers. From head to toe, I was dressed like a poor fool. It was all boy clothes, but no kid wore anything like it in at least a decade, they didn't fit, & looked worn out. Even our haircuts were 1940s or military style. I looked like a WWII refugee. It didn't help that I was the littlest person in the school at the time either.
I was so jealous of my sister's clothes. She was the only girl, so no hand-me-downs for her. Most of her clothes were brand new, pretty, & fit. So I got fascinated by what all the pretty stuff the girls in the neighborhood, & at school wore too. The ones who dressed the prettiest, I had a crush on. I would browse through catalogs of pretty girls stuff when nobody was watching, wishing I could have them.
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Well, it says female. This would have thrilled my family as I had two older brothers and everyone was convinced I was going to be the girl they all wanted. I was told I would have been named Sonya after a distant relative but they probably would have settled on Susan. Susan G? Doesn't have the same rhythm to me. This was something my elderly relatives continued to tell me well into adult life. But again, I picked a number of answers only because I had no other choice. Anyway, I will continue to indulge my female side by visiting Betty's and enjoying our hobby.
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Girl for me too, but I knew that already.
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Whenever I take these quizzes I always try to do so as honestly as I can. Once again I'm a girl. I don't believe I've ever been anything but a girl.
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male but really the questions didnt seem to relate to gender anyway and in some cases were just too limiting i.e. favourite subject History.English and Phys Ed I loved all three.
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Hi
I managed female and in the monster quiz I am Dracula LOL
Love and
wishes as
always NB x x x
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OK, you made me consider taking the monster test.
http://www.playbuzz.com/suttercane10/which-universal-monster-are-you
I got Phantom of the Opera.
Of course none of these quizzes are very scientific. They're just for fun & entertainment.
The ones on gender are particularly biased on old obsolete standards, & in at least one by how horny you are or how much you whore it up.
I found that ones where you do well in science & math or like those topics, or where you like the outdoors or camping rule you more masculine. That's an old 1960 & earlier attitude.
In modern times, surveys & research have shown women are doing better in math & sciences than men. This has come about from modern attitudes, that people good in science or math, or are generally smart are sissies, brown-nosers, & snitches. So those topics & excelling too well in school is not desirable in schools, esp. in public funded, & rough schools.
Indeed esp. among many minorities, doing well in math & sciences is not considered manly, or you may even be accused of being an "uncle tom" by doing well in them. Among most minorities the gap between women doing well in science & math & men is far greater than the general population.
Consider that most publicly funded schools in most cities are just a step less rougher than most prisons, where science, math, knowledge, & getting along with your teachers is considered a bad thing to many of the students. Many of the kids in public city schools have at least 1 parent or brother who did serious prison time for a serious crime.
If someone was in an American prison, which one would be more likely to get raped, & forced to become someone's bitch, the big dumb guy who did good in sports, or the smart science & math whiz?
You can only view the news to see which kids in school are getting bullied. It's not the big dumb ones, it's the smart ones, physically weak ones, or the handicapped ones.
Then on the topic outdoors & camping being masculine... Women love it too. Granted, you won't find many women roughing it sleeping on bare ground at night in a sleeping bag, or deer & bear hunting. But that's not what hiking & camping is all about. Plenty of women love camping, hiking, the outdoors, & nature.
Just do a utube search of off grid camping, off grid little house, or off grid homestead, & you'll see plenty of women living off the grid, in cabins, tents, trailers, in the middle of nowhere with no electricity , gas, or running water, unless they're making it themselves.
So the only thing in most of these quizzes that would point to a feminine side in me would be what I like to wear, I could cook, & like cats. But many guys know how to cook or owned a cat. If a guy by the time they've grown up can't cook, they quickly learn by college, or in the military, or in their first apartment. Many residences don't allow dogs but will allow cats. Some people's busy schedule doesn't make time to walk a dog regularly 4 or more times a day & give it the attention it craves. For someone raised around pets, a cat, bird, or fish tank may be the only option.
When you're raised around pets, they're like part of the family & a normal household. So they need a pet in their home to feel normal. It's like getting a place with no TV radio, or music. If you're used to those things, it doesn't feel right or comfortable without them.
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No surprise on this one,
http://www.playbuzz.com/benjaminbirely10/which-world-leader-could-you-be-one-day
I got Dalai Lama. I'm mostly a Buddhist anyway, but also thought he was a pretty cool guy.
Started out Catholic. Turned mostly spiritualist through my Mom, then because of my love for hiking, camping, nature, wildlife, & science became more Buddhist.
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They say I'm a Male, then I got the Wolf man, then the Dali Lama.
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Dracula and Elizabeth The First :-)