Do You Have a Male or Female Brain?

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www.magiquiz.com/quiz/is-your-brain-more-male-or-female/

I know it's just a stupid online quiz but this is the environment young people are growing up in, and I thought you'd all find it ridiculous.

I got 'female' which means I'm better at finding my keys and maintaining the peace apparently.

If you can't be bothered to look at the quiz (which is sensible because it is daft and looong), it consists of questions like:

What was your favorite thing to do as a child?
- Play Doh all day
- Play with my Easy Bake Oven.
- Make Creepy Crawlers

You're walking through your house. How likely are you to notice dirty plates on the table?
- I always notice them.
- If I’m not distracted I’ll notice them.
- If I’m paying close attention I might notice them.
- I probably won’t notice until someone mentions them.

Oh lovely. The same gender crap that stopped women voting, being scientists etc because our brains couldn’t cope.

It’s not ridiculous. It’s harmful. What messages does that give a teenage girl who does not fit the female sterotypes? There’s something wrong with me?

What messages does it give other teenage girls? There is something wrong with her. Where does that lead. Bullying and exclusions.

I am female therefore my brain is a female brain as is my body.

It’s not ridiculous. It’s harmful. What messages does that give a teenage girl who does not fit the female sterotypes? There’s something wrong with me?

You're 100% right. This whole female = sexual stereotype thing is everywhere and I still can't quite work out how the hell we got here. It's a massive step backward.

It's so regressive. I cant believe that we are foung back to a place where females are defined by stereotypes.

It is so dangerous particularly in a world where AI will dominate the world in the next 30 years and tech companies seem full of woke bros. Sorry for the detail and conspiracy theory rant.

I have a 'male' brain. I'm autistic.
I still have to find the keys.
Not just with my DC but at work for some reason.

Surely most peoples brains are a mix

I stopped at 9 as it's such a badly worded quiz.

Surely most peoples brains are a mix

Sorry but liking pink or finding your keys or being submissive is sexist stereotyping and nothing to do with being female (except that when you're female you're indoctrinated to believe you should behave certain way from your social development).

The brain is "plastic". You learn from your environment. The brain is not inherently built with a preference for .

The brain controls the hormonal endocrine system of your body which will be very different in males or females. Asking "Did you prefer maths or art at school" will not give any single clue as to whether your brain released a flood of testosterone on reaching puberty or not.

These ridiculous tests are a pile of sexist crap.

First question:
Kids play with what they're given and what their friends have.

Second question:
I guess the Mr Carsons of this world have a woman's brain? Oh, no, I see, that only applies to housewife, not distinguished head of household.

Sorry Qcng but I disagree with your reasoning

liking pink or finding your keys or being submissive is sexist stereotyping and nothing to do with being female

Stereotypes have evolved from observation and biological psychology

The brain is "plastic". You learn from your environment. The brain is not inherently built with a preference for

Yes of course the environment and nurture shape us all but I would argue that we are all born with unique personalities due to genes and the brains hard wiring. New born babies are not all identical but have different abilities, likes and dislikes. If our brains are plastic then why do so many GNC children refuse to adopt the stereotypes expected of them?

Asking "Did you prefer maths or art at school" will not give any single clue as to whether your brain released a flood of testosterone on reaching puberty or not.

But that simple question would enable you to be correct well over 80% of the time if you are guessing someones sex without meeting them.

My position has always been that men and women are (on average) very different psychologically. Yes there is a big overlap in the middle but if you are born one of the female outliers who is more boyish than 90% of the boys, or a male outlier who is more girly than 90% of the girls, life is going to be hard and there won't be many of your own sex that you can befriend or identify with. We need to support and celebrate those children as members of their biological sex not tell them they are in the wrong bodies nor push them to conform to stereotypes.

I am one such outlier and the test predictably said I was a man although the mirror, my children and grandchildren would dispute that.

These ridiculous tests are a pile of sexist crap.

I think we can agree on that.

I have a female brain! I never knew that before. All those years of being female and I had no idea...

I took a look at the quiz... relationship status choices single, something else I can't remember and 'taken' ....wtf?

Stereotypes have evolved from observation and biological psychology

Stereotypes have evolved from observation of what people do, in the constraints of societies which have at least since the dawn of agriculture been structurally sexist.

'Are you good at finding keys' is much more 'are you the one whose time and effort is least valued so you are expected to waste it finding stuff for people who CBA'.

^ Asking "Did you prefer maths or art at school" will not give any single clue as to whether your brain released a flood of testosterone on reaching puberty or not.

But that simple question would enable you to be correct well over 80% of the time if you are guessing someones sex without meeting them.^

Do you have a shred of evidence to support that remarkable assertion?

i don't think there's male/female brain.

I'm on a phone Errol so can't figure out how to link to studies but try out the question on your family and friends.

Did you prefer maths or art at school, pink or blue, go hunting or stay in camp? These are nothing to do with female physiology and everything to do with society. Maths/blue/hunting are all female roles/stereotypes in different geographical or historical cultures. Long hair, heels and makeup has been the height of masculinity at times.

*Psychology not physiology

This quiz isn't determining whether you have a male or female brain but whether we were socialised as male or female.

A simple example would be the much higher uptake of STEM subjects by girls in all-girl schools

What a pile of regressive shit.

'Your other half says you have to do the dishes'

Where's the answer 'why haven't you done them? Have you lost the use of your arms'?

stereptype are based on observation and biolog

Do you believe that people observed that one nationality is stupid or subhuman and that’s how racism evolved?
That having legs that don’t work mean you are most likely deaf?
Clearly incorrect.
But it’s ok, sterotypes about women are totally justifiable?

The point where I noticed the backlash against women's equality was the 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus' book. Whilst it was sexist claptrap Suddenly male colleagues could and would use it to undermine me and my ability to do the same job as them.

It gave me a male brain, which doesn’t surprise me, I can do manly useful shit which would just be too much for one with an inferior female brain.

Joking aside, as a female with adhd, I noticed a strong correlation between some answers and what are usually more typical presentations for boys with adhd versus girls, whom mostly tend to be more socially conditioned to minimise the symptoms/ outlets. So for me anyway it didn’t just stereotype gender, but neurodiversity too.