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Androgyny: Where do you fit on the Bem Sex Role Inventory Scale?

Hmmmm. Well, I'm wearing a black v-neck top, a white skirt, and pink lipstick. Yet, I scored higher on masculine than feminine, so go figure.
 
ABSTRUSE said:
That might be worth looking into.

Now, where the hell are my girlie clothes?....and yes, I do have some...Next to my power suit.
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In girly clothes is the only time my attitude ever approaches anything even remotely resembling "demure." ;)
 
impressive said:
If they change your attitude, yes.
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I think this is an exceedingly interesting and important point.

These characteristics are highly mutable, and the results can change depending on even such simple things like how you are dressed.
 
Equinoxe said:
I think this is an exceedingly interesting and important point.

These characteristics are highly mutable, and the results can change depending on even such simple things like how you are dressed.
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Yes! very interesting indeed.
 
lesbiaphrodite said:
In many ancient tribes of various nations, androgyny was regarded as something to be sought after. In some tribes, shamans were either androgynous or hermaphroditic (intersexed) b/c the tribe felt this gave them special insights into humanity since they could see life from both the male and female perspectives simultaneously.
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Interesting. So, perhaps if we had all been raised that way, some of our scores would be very different. How much is learned and how much is innate?
 
Funnily enough

Masculinity~5.9 (pretty much what I expected)
Femininity~2.45 (much lower than I thought it would be)

Probably because I look at me and my body screams *I am a WOMAN....*, I expected my scores to show that...*head shake*
 
Equinoxe said:
I think this is an exceedingly interesting and important point.

These characteristics are highly mutable, and the results can change depending on even such simple things like how you are dressed.
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Maybe for you but what about us? Is Bel any less masculine when he's in his kilt? Not likely! So the M/F androgyny question regarding clothes only applies to women?
 
voluptuary_manque said:
Maybe for you but what about us? Is Bel any less masculine when he's in his kilt? Not likely! So the M/F androgyny question regarding clothes only applies to women?
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No, he's not -- but his entire posture changes and, with it, his self-confidence. It *does* affect his attitude.
 
voluptuary_manque said:
Maybe for you but what about us? Is Bel any less masculine when he's in his kilt? Not likely! So the M/F androgyny question regarding clothes only applies to women?
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Well, that's not what I'm trying to get at.

People's personalities are not static concrete things which are always the same in every circumstance. How people feel and what personality characteristics they express will vary depending on a host of factors, some of them purely internal, others having an external impetus.

Look at the saying "Dress for success". It isn't merely that people will react to a person better if they are well dressed and look authoritative, but that that person will feel they belong in that role. Now, that has nothing to do with Masculinity or Femininity in and of itself, but what people perceive as sexed are certain personality traits—and what this test measures is the applicability of said traits to an individual's personality. Incidentally, this is why I keep capitalising those words, they represent an idea of what is feminine and what is masculine.

So, in that sense, an individual's attitude and personality depend on all sorts of things: including how they dress.
 
Belegon said:
A false positive. A kilt is MORE masculine, not more feminine. You'll need to learn this if you are going to wear yours properly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_WEP9ZkpS4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y52pJhSnpeE&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQonTlU66I&feature=related
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Damn text without facial expressions! :rolleyes: That's what I meant, hence the "not likely" comment. Believe me, I know about kilts after as many Highland Games as I've been to. The only dress more masculine is naked with a hard-on . . . :D
 
Equinoxe said:
Well, that's not what I'm trying to get at.

People's personalities are not static concrete things which are always the same in every circumstance. How people feel and what personality characteristics they express will vary depending on a host of factors, some of them purely internal, others having an external impetus.

Look at the saying "Dress for success". It isn't merely that people will react to a person better if they are well dressed and look authoritative, but that that person will feel they belong in that role. Now, that has nothing to do with Masculinity or Femininity in and of itself, but what people perceive as sexed are certain personality traits—and what this test measures is the applicability of said traits to an individual's personality. Incidentally, this is why I keep capitalising those words, they represent an idea of what is feminine and what is masculine.

So, in that sense, an individual's attitude and personality depend on all sorts of things: including how they dress.
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Excellent point. It's only recently that I've taken to walking around in civilian clothes the same way I used to march on parade in uniform. The attitude that you project is the one that you assume, IMO, hence the principle that you can change someone's ideas by changing their behavior, not the other way around.
 
I've always dressed differently from those around me, I guess you could say more masculine, but I never thought of myself as androgenous, though some might say yes, I've always thought of myself as non-conformist.
 
Hey abs...

My clothing choices don't reflect the inner me very much. I look feminine, therefore I dress to show off my shape (unless I am going to a gay bar...then I dress much more masculine..but with my face fully made up).
 
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