To me, the test seems designed to measure how aware a man is of the ways that women seek to benefit unequally from being born female. It seems to state truths that every man who’s ever interacted with a female will have experienced, and then asks men if men agree or disagree.
If you disagree, it demonstrates that you interacted with women without realizing these unreasonable expectations, or without objecting to them. It is s~~~-science to be sure. But I think its most useful purpose for women would be to measure how many men have caught on to their agenda (hostile sexist), and of those that have, how many are willing to conform to it (benevolent sexist).
If I were a feminist organization, the results of this test applied to men would tell me 1) how much resistance will I get from men when I claim to want to be treated equally? 2) how much acceptance will I get from men when I still want to be treated as though I am special?
Benevolent sexism means your thoughts are still sexist, but in ways that are useful to women’s agenda of benefitting from their gender. Hostile sexist means that you are sexist in ways that are obstructive to women’s agenda of benefitting from their gender. Notice that your thoughts are sexist either way.
I have held feminism’s claim of seeking equality deeply suspect since I first learned of it as a teenager. I suspected then, and now, that the real aim is to keep those behaviors and traditions that treated women differently that were of benefit to them (exemption from the draft, first seats in the life boats), and simultaneously eliminate any traditions and behaviors that did not benefit them (no female presidents, few CEOs). To me, this test seems to be an attempt at measuring how much cooperation they are getting from a man with the former agenda, and how much resistance they are getting from men on the latter.
The title of the test, Are you a sexist?, is a bit of a give away about the real aim of its authors. Being smeared with the ‘sexist’ label is sort of like being smeared with the ‘racist’ label. It is often an accusation thrown out followed by a challenge to prove you are not sexist by handing the accuser some special unearned treatment to prove that you are not what they have just accused you of being. You are guilty until you prove you are not guilty by giving the accuser something they want.
This sort of manipulation is classic female behavior. “Here’s a load of scorn and shame… now prove you don’t deserve it by giving me what I want.”
I did a brief read of the test from the posts, but didn’t enter any answers. In this case, as usual, what they seem to want is just insight into my thoughts that will allow them to better strategize their future efforts on getting even more of what they want from me…
Same crap, same package, same label, same agenda… old strategy.
Look, it's not my fault that tornado dropped a house on your sister. Now get back on your broom and get your ass out of here... and take your monkeys with you
BrainPilot 2 years, 10 months ago.
