Feminism - College Project

You have ensured that your responses will come from a very specific self selected group though.

And so your results will be very skewed.

Thanks to those responding to the survey.

I am a college student and am in the process of doing research on the topic of feminism. I am a feminist, believing in equality for all and do my best to be inclusive and inter-sectional. I believe that it is a very broad topic and everyone is entitled to their opinions and views. Please, answer my survey only if you are comfortable and happy with the questions. The intention of the survey is to gather all opinions and thoughts on feminism. The first two questions were created with the purpose of classification and are required when holding as survey like this for research purposes - much like when signing up to MumsNet where a similar question is asked.

I chose to use the word gender as it I wanted to be inclusive of those who were not born biologically of the specific sexes

So.... Not really about feminism then?

You'll find that a lot of feminists have huge problems with the use of "identify as" and its underpinning assumptions.

roisinjf, debate is fairly robust here, and you are young, so brace yourself!
However it is one of the best places to challenge one's own views, so if you are willing, stick around and ask questions. Posters will invest a lot of time in responding to you if you post in good faith.

What do you think about the religion example I posted upthread?

Presumably you did not consider that by your choice you excluded those of us who refuse to identify as a gender on principal. This will inevitably distort your results especially when you are asking about feminism!

You've not really researched your audience here have you?

Imagine question 1:

"What is your religion?
a. Christianity
b. Judaism
c. Other

Do you see the problem?
'Other' still doesn't allow for a wholesale rejection of all religion. It implicitly implies that one has an 'other religion'. It starts from a premise that every respondent must have a religion.

The sex they were given at birth - what, like a christening present?

People aren't given their sex at birth.

So if I tick to say that my gender is female, I'm saying that I 'identify with' the social and cultural roles associated with females, which are...?

I'd love to help, but whilst I have a biological sex, I don't believe in gender at all. I can no more answer questions about 'identifying as a gender' than an atheist could answer questions about which deity they most believe in.

Wording questions this way excludes vast numbers of people from answering.

'Identify' as a word has become meaningless and is not grounded in objective fact. You may as well use "wish I was" or "am not" or "falsely declare I am" as interchangeable phrases.

Are you new to feminism? Your question suggests that you aren't familiar with some basic principles. It might be better to start with a few questions about the terms you are using and how they are defined: sex/gender/male/female/man/woman etc. This forum is a great place to learn to be honest.

Everyone is born 'biologically of the specific sexes'.

"those who were not born biologically of the specific sexes"

What happened to them then - did they hatch out of an egg?

Ditto. Change it, and I'll complete it.

Hi Roisin. I’ve done your survey - one thought. I don’t like, and I’m sure many others on here will agree, the phrase “identify as”. I just am. I am a woman. I am a feminist. I don’t identify as anything. Hope your project goes well

Why did you use the term gender and not sex?