Your Score: Masculine

You scored 60 masculinity and 43 femininity!

You scored high on masculinity and low on femininity. You have a traditionally masculine personality.

The Bem Sex Role Inventory Test written by weirdscience

*checks down shirt*

Yup, still a girl. Damn!

The weird thing is, I actually expected this. Every time I do these sex-role or gender of the mind online tests I end up being told I'm a guy, and pretty damn firmly a guy at that. Every. Single. Time. And I'm beginning to get the feeling they might be right, largely because I'm just not very good at being female.

I know they're only online quizzes, but I constantly get the same results. I think they're trying to tell me something.

Well, at least I'm consistent, I guess.


Meme stolen from nightwhisp

List of the top 110 banned books (of all time). Bold the ones you've read. Italicize the ones you've read part of. Underline the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of). Read more. Convince others to read some.

001. The Bible
002. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
003. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
004. The Koran
005. Arabian Nights
006. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
007. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
008. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
009. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
010. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
011. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
012. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
013. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
014. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
015. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
016. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
017. Dracula by Bram Stoker
018. Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
019. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
020. Essays by Michel de Montaigne
021. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
022. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
023. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
024. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
025. Ulysses by James Joyce
026. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
027. Animal Farm by George Orwell
028. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
029. Candide by Voltaire
030. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
031. Analects by Confucius
032. Dubliners by James Joyce
033. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
034. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
035. Red and the Black by Stendhal
036. Das Capital by Karl Marx
037. Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
038. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
039. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
040. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
041. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
042. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
043. Jungle by Upton Sinclair
044. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
045. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
046. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
047. Diary by Samuel Pepys
048. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
049. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
050. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
051. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
052. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
053. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
054. Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
055. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
056. Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
057. Color Purple by Alice Walker
058. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
059. Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
060. Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
061. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
062. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
063. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
064. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
065. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
066. Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
067. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
068. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
069. The Talmud
070. Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
071. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
072. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
073. American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
074. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
075. Separate Peace by John Knowles
076. Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
077. Red Pony by John Steinbeck
078. Popol Vuh
079. Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
080. Satyricon by Petronius
081. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
082. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
083. Black Boy by Richard Wright
084. Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
085. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
086. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
087. Metaphysics by Aristotle
088. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
089. Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
090. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
091. Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
092. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
093. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
094. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
095. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
096. Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
097. General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
098. Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
099. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
100. Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
101. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
102. Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
103. Nana by Emile Zola
104. Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
105. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
106. Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
107. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
108. Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
109. Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
110. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

... damn, some of my favorite books are on this list. God, my parents mjust have been dangerous anarchists, I first read Catch-22 when I was - what, ten? I have a teddy bear called Yossarian upstairs, for God's sakes, which speaks volumes about how young I must have been. My father read us James and the Giant Peach, too. And they recomended I read at least a half-dozen of the books on here. God, what heinous subversives my family must be.

I didn't even know half of these had been banned. I wonder where The Well of Loneliness ranks on that list? (Largely because I've read it, and though it's not banned any more it wasn't terribly easy to find a copy, either.) And Cancer Ward?

... gah, now I want to read Cancer Ward again.


In other news, I did a lot of washing, but then it rained. At least I managed to get a couple of things properly dried before it happened (something to do with the fabric, I guess) so at least I have clean pants for tomorrow. I'm sure I'll be able to find a shirt somewhere.