I think another thing wrong with this quiz is that it blends together moral beliefs with obtained education. Like, you can still be very feminist even if you don't know who bell hooks is.
I barely know who bell hooks is (I know she's a feminist author, but I've never read any of her books) and I would very much call myself a feminist. I'm literally working on an 8-page essay about the media's representation of women and people of color for a class.
I also had to skip the asked for it as i have used it in a non evil way (food related as my mother asked for a food item and i had to explain why i did it)
The problem with this quiz basically summarizes my problem with pop feminism in general. The main problem is that nuance is lost because it waters down feminist and social justice arguments. Great video as always.
So, if you don't tick any of the boxes for fun it says "You know your fair share about women's rights and suffrage, but hey, it never hurts to learn a little more!"
Hey strontiumXnitrate, I put the definitions of both feminism and cancer here to point out how misinformed you are. You're welcome. feminism noun fem·i·nism | \ ˈfe-mə-ˌni-zəm \ Definition of Feminism 1 : the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes 2 : organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests cancer noun can·cer | \ ˈkan(t)-sər \ Definition of Cancer 3 : something evil or malignant that spreads destructively
Right, like if you haven't gone to college and taken a class you are excluded from feminism. Assuming laypeople have access to all of those scholars and their books/ BS
The question about women applying for jobs that they fulfill 60% of the requirements for is a reference to the fact that men generally do that, while a women often won't apply for a job if she doesn't meet all of the requirements.
It's funny, but I never considered that behavior to be associated with a particular gender. It just seemed like common sense to me to apply for a job even if I don't perfectly meet each and every requirement. I mean, I wouldn't apply for a nursing job without a nursing degree or something like that - but if my education is in the right area, and I have some level of useful experience for a job, I would always apply/submit a resume even if I know I'm not a 100% match.
comicconcarne I don't know either actually. I think it might be related to gender neutrality, like people say Latinx for example. Or it's just phonetic spelling, I don't know. I'm not a native english speaker and this was the first version I ever saw, so I just kinda rolled with it ^-^
I go " yo dudes", i use dude on everyone i know be them male, female, old, young if i meet you i say dude to you... I grew up on loads of 90s surfer types as rolemodel in my speech
I took the quiz before finishing the video and got 40/50. Having finished the video now, we totally agree on the same points about the framing of the questions. I feel some of the questions just played to a stereotype of Feminism.
I went on BuzzFeed to take this test... & I will never forgive you for that. ;) I got: "You checked off 38 out of 50 on this list! You are a total feminist. Not only are you not afraid to lean in, but you educate yourself in feminist history and support women fully and wholeheartedly. Keep fighting the good fight!" My vertue has been signaled.
The Bechdel Test isn't even about sexism, it was about whether or not lesbians feel isolated at movies. This quiz feels really like liberal and pop feminism.
I’ve watched you since middle school, and, now almost done with high school, I realize how much your channel has shaped me into the person I am. Most of my family doesn’t understand why I am so ideologically aware and open minded, and I truly have channels like yours to thank for that. I’ll b honest that I don’t watch every one of your videos but even watching a couple interests me and pushes me to argue against sociable norms I see almost everywhere I go. Thank you and keep pushing boundaries for young people (like me)
all the "i have never" questions rub me the wrong way. it seems like they're implying that anybody who was ever misogynistic can't be a feminist because of their past.
I feel like a lot of the questions are so opinionated that it alienates intersectional feminist for disagreeing. Like the movie question is bs since it's not asking whether we should have more nonsexist movies but instead it's saying we should censor sexist movies. It's possible to have a better society without doing something so extreme as censorship. Instead of forcing people not to see it, we should try bringing the moral issue instead so people can decide for themselves. And when people decide for themselves their opinions tend to be more concrete. It's basically saying there is only one "right way" to fix an issue in society and it's bs.
Ok so kind of an unpopular opinion but I don't think these kind of quizzes and stuff from BuzzFeed is all that bad. I say this because this "pop feminism" stuff for me and a lot of other people are there first experiences with the idea of feminists not just being hysterical man haters and the issues they bring up on these articles while they admittedly treat them somewhat shallowly but they made me curious and led me to research these issues which resulted me in finding awesome creators like you and eventually shaped my views and led me to identify as a feminist. There are legit concerns with these kind of articles but I think there are benefits to it to, it's a good place for people new to feminism to first get introduced, BuzzFeed may not be the most effective site to learn about feminism but I think that it's a place to start when going down the rabbit hole of equality TLDR It's true these quizzes are flawed but there are some advantages to them
What do you think of the quote "There's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women"? I feel like it puts unfair responsibility on women to do all the work in fighting for equality when men should be doing just as much or more, especially since they have more privilege. I agree with the sentiment that women should support other women, but this quote kind of implies that men who don't support women wouldn't go to this "special place in hell." It seems kind of twisted and sexist and puts all this responsibility on women and punishes them if they can't live up to them. I feel like it also very much pushes this mainstream idea of feminism that's simply "women should support other women, yay girl power!!" kind of thing. What are your thoughts?
Miku Fujita As a sentence on it's own it doesn't seem specific enough to be helpful in a 'words to live by' sense. It leaves a lot open to interpretation and does seem pretty condemning in a blanket kind of way. I can understand the sentiment in the sense that women have it much tougher than men and that being aware of that as a woman means you should know how tough it is for fellow women and help them. But are you still expected to support women who do terrible or awful things out of solidarity out of a belief that an unfair world has mistreated them and corrupted them to make them that way and they still need help?
I agree. I feel like it leaves room for people to blame women who don't actively support other women for their oppression and take men's roles in women's oppression out of the equation -- similar to the way people like to say that homophobes are 'closested gays', which both validates homophobes' repulsion of gay men, and blames gay men for their own oppression. (I say gay men, because this argument is only used towards male homophobes like Mike Pence). It's pretty insidious, all in all.
The Bechtel test question isn't really fair because I think it would be rad to have more movies staring trans men, or men of colour, or disabled men, or any other variation of marginalized men, or NON BINARY PEOPLE. Like the test is good but it has a lot of problems too
One thing that bug me is the point "i have taken a women's/gender studies class". I didn't have the opportunity to go to University/college. You don't have to take classes to be feminist, although I am privileged in that i can afford books on feminism to educate myself.
If anyone can define intersectionalism I hope it would be you considering that Feminist Fridays is a series where we explore the social, the political, and the media from a feminist and intersectional perspective. And use a lot of F words.
I think the comments you made at the end of the video about focusing on the core of this issues is important and something we all have to remember when it's so easy to make it that 'holier than thou' competition as you said. Which sometimes I can even find you doing, but I do as well so...
The childcare and maternity leave thing is so important, but should also be given to all employees. It's implying that women are still the main carers, which is ridiculous.
I remember taking this quiz a while back and I got a similar score to what she got in the video. I wouldn't call myself an anti-feminist, but I'm not the "most feminist" person in the world, whatever that means. About half of the questions were just common sense questions that literally every sane person on the planet would agree with. Most were poorly worded, and many seemed to undermine what I believe to be the most important part of feminism: allowing women to choose how they live their own lives
Regarding the first question, you can just answer it as a hypothetical. If you had a salary, and if men get paid less, would you be willing to give up some of your salary if it helps bring pay equality?
Honestly, I agree that its annoying that we don't have a better alternative, but even as a trans woman I still use "hey guys" or avoid it. I just... don't like how "y'all" feels in my mouth
Rowan McMullan, I try my best to say, "Hey folks!" instead of using, "Hey guys!" It took me some getting used to, buy now it feels like a perfectly natural phrase for me to use. ☺️
It seems like such a non-issue to me. "Hey guys" has just become a colloquial phrase for greeting a group of people. The gender of the group you're addressing isn't at all implied, and that's universally understood. If everyone in the country stopped using this phrase, would we be somehow closer to gender equality? I doubt it.
It's telling that the quiz didn't have a single question about the enormous gender gaps favouring women in life expectancy, suicide, university attendance, child custody, homelessness and imprisonment. If feminism is about equality, then wouldn't feminists care about these issues too?
In Australia, the plural word for a group of people is 'youse' but it's a lower class thing. Because I teach female-only leadership programs, we use hey girls or hey ladies or hey women. But every plural seems to be gendered or denotes something about the person saying it. If anyone has a good word, we should just start using it.
the "inclined to believe an assaulted person" one I disagree, its innocent until proven guilty and this question is basically saying "guilty until proven innocent", if it was someone I know yes I would want to believe them but you have to look at it from an unbiased perspective
Courts have to look at it from an unbiased perspective, you personally don't have to. If someone comes to you and says they have been sexually assaulted, your reaction shouldn't be to tell tham you'll investigate the issue, but to comfort them, wich includes believing them, at least for the moment.
nature documentaries would be banned if movies that don't pass the bechdel test weren't released. its such a limiting test. you can't have any blanket test for something as complicated as sexism.
"You checked off 40 out of 50 on this list! You are a total feminist. Not only are you not afraid to lean in, but you educate yourself in feminist history and support women fully and wholeheartedly. Keep fighting the good fight!" But what is someone didn't check the box about being equally excited to have a boy or a girl because that person prefers having a girl? The test thinks not checking that box makes one less of feminist, but it could also make more of a feminist.
I just took it and I got 41/50 too. I think it's not gonna fix society's sexism but it at least brings up things we should consider whether we do in our everyday lives. I think the question about police brutality has to do with feminism because black men are disproportionately targeted by the police and feminism advocates for men too
Claudia Boleyn did some great videos like this! Maybe you've already seen them but she was also late to the trend. If you call men bossy too, what's the problem with calling women bossy? I mean, sometimes people in general do "boss people around." I may be wrong so anyone feel free to disagree.
I think the question about applying for jobs with 60% of the qualifications is in relation to men normally applying for jobs that they are underqualified for. I remember seeing a study (I think it was Pew) that said men over apply and women under apply. From personal experience I definetly apply for jobs if I meet ~75% of the qualifications because sometimes they set higher expectations knowing that people who don't fit the criteria will apply.
I found it interesting that you seemed afraid not ticking some supposedly feminist boxes even though you felt the respective question was worded in a way you could not agree on it at face value. That way you implicitly accept Buzzfeed as the arbiter on feminism, and give them way more credit than they deserve. So, stuff Buzzfeed, and get yourself some Marlene Dietrich movies - I recommend "witness for the prosecution".
I remember doing this quiz and a lot of the statements seemed off to me but I couldn't think why. Great video feel like I know get why this quiz was off a bit
1. "6 Reasons to Never Call Women 'Females'," says Buzzfeed, referring to a rape victim as "a female." 2. Encouraging girls to do STEM ranges from "hey you can be a scientist if you want" to people telling me to do computer science instead of biology because mostly boys are in tech and that's terrible. 3. Conversely, some really strong women have been in movies that don't pass the Bechdel Test because there are few speaking characters.
Okay I received 26 out of 50 which qualifies me as "woke," even though I think some of the unchecked ones would disqualify me as a feminist in many people's eyes. I didn't even say "men and women are equal" (because they had the much better "all genders should have equal social and political rights") and that carries as much weight as knowing who Bell Hooks is! Buzzfeed could at least say "three points for equal treatment in workplace, half a point for reading 'Bad Feminist'."
3:45 I think was referring not to Affirmative Action but the fact that men often apply for jobs even when they don't meet all of the qualifications, while women will see they don't meet a condition and just skip applying. At least that was my first thought.
I took it a year ago, when I was still anti-feminist and knew next to nothing about feminist issues, systems and intersectionality. I got a 39/50. Seems accurate!
They mentioned intersectional feminism in it so idk maybe they meant it for the first question idk what they meant... and idk buzz feed people use bitch so they might not care. I felt the quiz was targeting men. And the polite question.. I believe everyone should be polite. I was taught to always be polite as was my brother. That may have been the culture I was raised in. I'm Native American and from the south and conversational manners and stuff in general were both impressed upon me and my brother a lot. Granted often by the use of a switch... but yeah.
You claim to be bi yet don't know who Marlene Dietrich is?? (I'm fully kidding but I do recommend getting to know her, she's an amazing, iconic bisexual actress/singer from the world war 2 era)
I think Samantha wasn't talking about gender binaries here, but rather that the options are "agree" and "disagree", where some people might be more like "eh?".
I feel like a lot of what I don't like about feminism is shown in this video because I probably agree on most things with this RUclips on most things and according to this quiz I'm a feminist but am adamantly opposed to being a feminist. The reason I say this is not because of those extremes at the end of the spectrum that any movement is going to have but I disagree with a lot of what feminism says based on my experiences as a man. For example I've never been called bossy usually they're are not nearly that nice about it, I try to be nice to everyone I've had so many "friends" that I absolutely despised because of this, I've been judged on what I wore more times than I can count also for not shaving, and more but those weren't brought in this video. I know not every man is like this just like not everyone woman is not the same as the person who made this video, but I am frankly sick and tired of women telling me what a experience is like for men we cannot judge the world from our little snapshot that we actually get to see of it. I think everyone should try to be nice not necceasarily cherry if your not really feeling it at the time but I think it's the nice thing to do. I think everyone should have access to birth control cuz it helps to stop the spread of stds and sexually transmitted children. And I think that an employer should be able to higher whoever they want not because I think we shouldn't hire an assortment of people but we can't tell people who they can hire it's simply not the right of the government to do so. They have a right to be a sexist pig just as we have a right to not buy products from a sexist pig. Also I hate the policing of language like some people both men and women can be objectively bossy. And I've never seen anger as being a cultivated trait in my entire life that's personally just ridiculously that anyone could think that men are taught to be angry. Also if a man cannot understand what it's like to be a woman the a woman cannot understand what it's like to be a man. My absolute least favorite thing about feminism is this though. It's that so many are so concerned about language yet in feminism the word chosen to represent the fight for i quality essentially means women(feminism) and the source of inequality essentially just means men(patriarchy). So men aren't the enemy but we named the enemy after you. If you've made it this far through my rant congrats and please respond cuz I honestly do want to know what you think I know very few people that call themselves feminist even though I live in a very liberal place so please I want to talk with you.
About what I expected. Almost always supposedly feminist things on any mainstream site get thrown out as talking points in Sound-Bite and buzzword form, as things are phrased and framed for popculture and repeatability, not for comprehension. Buzz feed is particularly bad for this. Complex sociological subjects getting passed around in half understood call-and-repeat form feel like a trap, you might agree with the concept, but you're not even sure the poster/speaker grasps the meaning of the words they're bloody using. Arg
Affirmative action doesn't mean you're getting jobs you're not qualified for but I've been a part of the hiring process and it very much often means favoring someone less qualified. They do this to avoid the accusation of sexism, and it's essentially unspoken gender quotas. An accusation of discrimination could really hurt a business. Affirmative action is also in direct violation of the civil rights act and I think it does more harm than good, but I guess we only care about discrimination in one direction. Also the "equally qualified" thing isn't really how any of this works, there's always varying degrees of qualifications/experience. Plus a company may actually be looking for less qualified people to train in their own image, who haven't already picked up what they might consider bad habits depending on how they do things. It's common in entry to mid level tech not to favor the most qualified. The scenario you're painting ignores a lot of nuance. But yeah I get that you're more of an academic, so lack exposure to all this stuff.
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I think another thing wrong with this quiz is that it blends together moral beliefs with obtained education. Like, you can still be very feminist even if you don't know who bell hooks is.
I barely know who bell hooks is (I know she's a feminist author, but I've never read any of her books) and I would very much call myself a feminist. I'm literally working on an 8-page essay about the media's representation of women and people of color for a class.
I also had to skip the asked for it as i have used it in a non evil way (food related as my mother asked for a food item and i had to explain why i did it)
The problem with this quiz basically summarizes my problem with pop feminism in general. The main problem is that nuance is lost because it waters down feminist and social justice arguments. Great video as always.
"I can define intersectional feminism (unlike Buzzfeed)"
So, if you don't tick any of the boxes for fun it says
"You know your fair share about women's rights and suffrage, but hey, it never hurts to learn a little more!"
I love how SJWs and anti-SJWs both hate on buzzfeed lol. Finally found what will unite America ❤️
Asha Ali Buzzfeed makes everything look bad 😖
So, hate unites the US? lol.
XXRolando2008 yes
Hey strontiumXnitrate, I put the definitions of both feminism and cancer here to point out how misinformed you are. You're welcome.
feminism noun
fem·i·nism | \ ˈfe-mə-ˌni-zəm \
Definition of Feminism
1 : the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes
2 : organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests
cancer noun
can·cer | \ ˈkan(t)-sər \
Definition of Cancer
3 : something evil or malignant that spreads destructively
Right, like if you haven't gone to college and taken a class you are excluded from feminism. Assuming laypeople have access to all of those scholars and their books/ BS
Exactly!!!
Yet another reason Buzzfeed fails at intersectionality. Did they forget factors of class and wealth?
As long as you are a communist in panties you can't be excluded from being a "feminist".
The question about women applying for jobs that they fulfill 60% of the requirements for is a reference to the fact that men generally do that, while a women often won't apply for a job if she doesn't meet all of the requirements.
That's definitely true for me...interesting.
It's funny, but I never considered that behavior to be associated with a particular gender. It just seemed like common sense to me to apply for a job even if I don't perfectly meet each and every requirement. I mean, I wouldn't apply for a nursing job without a nursing degree or something like that - but if my education is in the right area, and I have some level of useful experience for a job, I would always apply/submit a resume even if I know I'm not a 100% match.
sarah bull We know. Still a poorly worded, cancerous question.
60%! Wow. I apply to jobs that I'm only 40% qualified for.
The best way to address mixed gender groups is obviously by saying "hello friends and enemies" or folx. I like folx. Folx is a great word.
Can you explain why people are spelling it "folx" instead of "folks"? It's okay if you can't I just never understood the need for it.
comicconcarne I don't know either actually. I think it might be related to gender neutrality, like people say Latinx for example. Or it's just phonetic spelling, I don't know.
I'm not a native english speaker and this was the first version I ever saw, so I just kinda rolled with it ^-^
I go " yo dudes", i use dude on everyone i know be them male, female, old, young if i meet you i say dude to you... I grew up on loads of 90s surfer types as rolemodel in my speech
@@comicconcarne Two words:
Scrabble.
Points.
The same principle applies to spelling "wymyn" with ys.
@@dylanschmidt9056 This is a nice theory and if I ever play analog scrabble again I might just discard an x using this method
I got a 20/50. I'm 40% feminist, 60% shitlord. Seems accurate.
I took the quiz before finishing the video and got 40/50. Having finished the video now, we totally agree on the same points about the framing of the questions. I feel some of the questions just played to a stereotype of Feminism.
"however this is a poser fuckin' quiz" LOL
I went on BuzzFeed to take this test... & I will never forgive you for that. ;)
I got:
"You checked off 38 out of 50 on this list!
You are a total feminist. Not only are you not afraid to lean in, but you educate yourself in feminist history and support women fully and wholeheartedly. Keep fighting the good fight!"
My vertue has been signaled.
The Bechdel Test isn't even about sexism, it was about whether or not lesbians feel isolated at movies. This quiz feels really like liberal and pop feminism.
I’ve watched you since middle school, and, now almost done with high school, I realize how much your channel has shaped me into the person I am. Most of my family doesn’t understand why I am so ideologically aware and open minded, and I truly have channels like yours to thank for that. I’ll b honest that I don’t watch every one of your videos but even watching a couple interests me and pushes me to argue against sociable norms I see almost everywhere I go. Thank you and keep pushing boundaries for young people (like me)
This is def a BS quiz but we got the same score so go us!!
all the "i have never" questions rub me the wrong way. it seems like they're implying that anybody who was ever misogynistic can't be a feminist because of their past.
Give me a bottle of Scotch and I will take any Buzzfeed quiz.
I feel like a lot of the questions are so opinionated that it alienates intersectional feminist for disagreeing. Like the movie question is bs since it's not asking whether we should have more nonsexist movies but instead it's saying we should censor sexist movies. It's possible to have a better society without doing something so extreme as censorship. Instead of forcing people not to see it, we should try bringing the moral issue instead so people can decide for themselves. And when people decide for themselves their opinions tend to be more concrete. It's basically saying there is only one "right way" to fix an issue in society and it's bs.
Ok so kind of an unpopular opinion but I don't think these kind of quizzes and stuff from BuzzFeed is all that bad. I say this because this "pop feminism" stuff for me and a lot of other people are there first experiences with the idea of feminists not just being hysterical man haters and the issues they bring up on these articles while they admittedly treat them somewhat shallowly but they made me curious and led me to research these issues which resulted me in finding awesome creators like you and eventually shaped my views and led me to identify as a feminist. There are legit concerns with these kind of articles but I think there are benefits to it to, it's a good place for people new to feminism to first get introduced, BuzzFeed may not be the most effective site to learn about feminism but I think that it's a place to start when going down the rabbit hole of equality
TLDR It's true these quizzes are flawed but there are some advantages to them
Then it's a really bad first exposure and a reason why people think feminism is stupid
What do you think of the quote "There's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women"? I feel like it puts unfair responsibility on women to do all the work in fighting for equality when men should be doing just as much or more, especially since they have more privilege. I agree with the sentiment that women should support other women, but this quote kind of implies that men who don't support women wouldn't go to this "special place in hell." It seems kind of twisted and sexist and puts all this responsibility on women and punishes them if they can't live up to them. I feel like it also very much pushes this mainstream idea of feminism that's simply "women should support other women, yay girl power!!" kind of thing. What are your thoughts?
Miku Fujita As a sentence on it's own it doesn't seem specific enough to be helpful in a 'words to live by' sense. It leaves a lot open to interpretation and does seem pretty condemning in a blanket kind of way.
I can understand the sentiment in the sense that women have it much tougher than men and that being aware of that as a woman means you should know how tough it is for fellow women and help them. But are you still expected to support women who do terrible or awful things out of solidarity out of a belief that an unfair world has mistreated them and corrupted them to make them that way and they still need help?
I agree. I feel like it leaves room for people to blame women who don't actively support other women for their oppression and take men's roles in women's oppression out of the equation -- similar to the way people like to say that homophobes are 'closested gays', which both validates homophobes' repulsion of gay men, and blames gay men for their own oppression. (I say gay men, because this argument is only used towards male homophobes like Mike Pence). It's pretty insidious, all in all.
The Bechtel test question isn't really fair because I think it would be rad to have more movies staring trans men, or men of colour, or disabled men, or any other variation of marginalized men, or NON BINARY PEOPLE. Like the test is good but it has a lot of problems too
One thing that bug me is the point "i have taken a women's/gender studies class". I didn't have the opportunity to go to University/college. You don't have to take classes to be feminist, although I am privileged in that i can afford books on feminism to educate myself.
If anyone can define intersectionalism I hope it would be you considering that Feminist Fridays is a series where we explore the social, the political, and the media from a feminist and intersectional perspective. And use a lot of F words.
You did the thing !
the "i have never" q's were super awful oh my god
I do think it is women's responsability to be friendly and polite, because it's everyone's responsability, but yeah, I guess I get what the test meant
Can say "Hello everyone!" :)
I think the comments you made at the end of the video about focusing on the core of this issues is important and something we all have to remember when it's so easy to make it that 'holier than thou' competition as you said. Which sometimes I can even find you doing, but I do as well so...
The childcare and maternity leave thing is so important, but should also be given to all employees. It's implying that women are still the main carers, which is ridiculous.
I remember taking this quiz a while back and I got a similar score to what she got in the video. I wouldn't call myself an anti-feminist, but I'm not the "most feminist" person in the world, whatever that means. About half of the questions were just common sense questions that literally every sane person on the planet would agree with. Most were poorly worded, and many seemed to undermine what I believe to be the most important part of feminism: allowing women to choose how they live their own lives
Regarding the first question, you can just answer it as a hypothetical. If you had a salary, and if men get paid less, would you be willing to give up some of your salary if it helps bring pay equality?
Honestly, I agree that its annoying that we don't have a better alternative, but even as a trans woman I still use "hey guys" or avoid it. I just... don't like how "y'all" feels in my mouth
Rowan McMullan, I try my best to say, "Hey folks!" instead of using, "Hey guys!" It took me some getting used to, buy now it feels like a perfectly natural phrase for me to use. ☺️
It seems like such a non-issue to me. "Hey guys" has just become a colloquial phrase for greeting a group of people. The gender of the group you're addressing isn't at all implied, and that's universally understood. If everyone in the country stopped using this phrase, would we be somehow closer to gender equality? I doubt it.
It's telling that the quiz didn't have a single question about the enormous gender gaps favouring women in life expectancy, suicide, university attendance, child custody, homelessness and imprisonment. If feminism is about equality, then wouldn't feminists care about these issues too?
In Australia, the plural word for a group of people is 'youse' but it's a lower class thing. Because I teach female-only leadership programs, we use hey girls or hey ladies or hey women. But every plural seems to be gendered or denotes something about the person saying it. If anyone has a good word, we should just start using it.
the "inclined to believe an assaulted person" one I disagree, its innocent until proven guilty and this question is basically saying "guilty until proven innocent", if it was someone I know yes I would want to believe them but you have to look at it from an unbiased perspective
Courts have to look at it from an unbiased perspective, you personally don't have to. If someone comes to you and says they have been sexually assaulted, your reaction shouldn't be to tell tham you'll investigate the issue, but to comfort them, wich includes believing them, at least for the moment.
TheOscar401 it’s not your job to be the jury that prosecutes someone. Your opinion does not require a ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ standard.
nature documentaries would be banned if movies that don't pass the bechdel test weren't released. its such a limiting test. you can't have any blanket test for something as complicated as sexism.
"You checked off 40 out of 50 on this list!
You are a total feminist. Not only are you not afraid to lean in, but you educate yourself in feminist history and support women fully and wholeheartedly. Keep fighting the good fight!"
But what is someone didn't check the box about being equally excited to have a boy or a girl because that person prefers having a girl? The test thinks not checking that box makes one less of feminist, but it could also make more of a feminist.
bajbhdkn preferring a girl isn’t very feminist.
it has a lot of questions that doesn't even really involve feminism
I didn't major in maths because of inequality in stem . I majored in it because i enjoy it. Do what you enjoy.
I just took it and I got 41/50 too. I think it's not gonna fix society's sexism but it at least brings up things we should consider whether we do in our everyday lives. I think the question about police brutality has to do with feminism because black men are disproportionately targeted by the police and feminism advocates for men too
Funny take on this from you, Marina! I like it.
1:13 part of feminism is also racial equality
Claudia Boleyn did some great videos like this! Maybe you've already seen them but she was also late to the trend.
If you call men bossy too, what's the problem with calling women bossy? I mean, sometimes people in general do "boss people around." I may be wrong so anyone feel free to disagree.
I think the question about applying for jobs with 60% of the qualifications is in relation to men normally applying for jobs that they are underqualified for. I remember seeing a study (I think it was Pew) that said men over apply and women under apply. From personal experience I definetly apply for jobs if I meet ~75% of the qualifications because sometimes they set higher expectations knowing that people who don't fit the criteria will apply.
"Hey guys" is fine
So is y'all
I am the most feminist person to ever walk the earth.
I found it interesting that you seemed afraid not ticking some supposedly feminist boxes even though you felt the respective question was worded in a way you could not agree on it at face value. That way you implicitly accept Buzzfeed as the arbiter on feminism, and give them way more credit than they deserve. So, stuff Buzzfeed, and get yourself some Marlene Dietrich movies - I recommend "witness for the prosecution".
I remember doing this quiz and a lot of the statements seemed off to me but I couldn't think why. Great video feel like I know get why this quiz was off a bit
I just fell in this channel, and she have a cat AND talk about important subjects. So for sure I will subscribe. 😻
1. "6 Reasons to Never Call Women 'Females'," says Buzzfeed, referring to a rape victim as "a female."
2. Encouraging girls to do STEM ranges from "hey you can be a scientist if you want" to people telling me to do computer science instead of biology because mostly boys are in tech and that's terrible.
3. Conversely, some really strong women have been in movies that don't pass the Bechdel Test because there are few speaking characters.
Okay I received 26 out of 50 which qualifies me as "woke," even though I think some of the unchecked ones would disqualify me as a feminist in many people's eyes. I didn't even say "men and women are equal" (because they had the much better "all genders should have equal social and political rights") and that carries as much weight as knowing who Bell Hooks is! Buzzfeed could at least say "three points for equal treatment in workplace, half a point for reading 'Bad Feminist'."
3:45 I think was referring not to Affirmative Action but the fact that men often apply for jobs even when they don't meet all of the qualifications, while women will see they don't meet a condition and just skip applying. At least that was my first thought.
The bathroom issues can easily be resolved by using the urinal symbol and the toilet bowl. Remove the gender and replace with the duty lol
See, Marina, you WOULD be equally excited to have a son or a daughter. You would have the equal excitement level of negative a billion.
I usually say hay y'all, hey folks, or hey people. But I do live in New Orleans so I think I can say y'all as many times.
Concerning emotional strength, I think everyone is different. A man could be emotionally stronger than a woman and vice versa.
Alcohol is a solution! Thanks for making all the videos that you do, I can see you put in the hard work.
I got a 39/50. It's a Buzzfeed quiz, mildly amusing but ultimately bullshit.
You're awesome girl!
I took it a year ago, when I was still anti-feminist and knew next to nothing about feminist issues, systems and intersectionality. I got a 39/50. Seems accurate!
I got 0/50💀
Buzzfeed back at it again with the Nick Jr quizzes. 🙄
novel means fiction
They mentioned intersectional feminism in it so idk maybe they meant it for the first question idk what they meant... and idk buzz feed people use bitch so they might not care. I felt the quiz was targeting men.
And the polite question.. I believe everyone should be polite. I was taught to always be polite as was my brother. That may have been the culture I was raised in. I'm Native American and from the south and conversational manners and stuff in general were both impressed upon me and my brother a lot. Granted often by the use of a switch... but yeah.
You claim to be bi yet don't know who Marlene Dietrich is?? (I'm fully kidding but I do recommend getting to know her, she's an amazing, iconic bisexual actress/singer from the world war 2 era)
Ya know the ones that she was like "obviously everyone's gonna click that"
Unfortunately... I know people _irl_ that wouldn't... ugh...
You're the only person that I am totally ok with having to choose over Supergirl.
I got a 22, a lot of questions are very stupid. The ones I feel like I understand, I answered.
PS Marina for fun I got a 0 and there's nothing bad they had to say. They just said you need to know more
I love y'all I use it all the time. lets make y'all a thing
I found it interesting as an MRA I got "super in-tune" and "woke". Of course it's all superficial.
Bad Feminist is such a good book ❤
7:24
I say Hey All, that's one that I like.
You really should look up Marlene Dietrich.
Lol that quiz was suuuper reductionist
I think another problem with this quiz is that it was very binary. like a lot of those questions left out people in the middle.
Samantha Gordon in the middle?
Suvi-Tuuli Allan non binary
Well Ok but I'm nonbinary and I'm not in the middle.
Suvi-Tuuli Allan true. Its not an accurate description
I think Samantha wasn't talking about gender binaries here, but rather that the options are "agree" and "disagree", where some people might be more like "eh?".
As a Certified Midwest-er I Hereby Grant You Special Permission To Use "Ya'll".
I feel like a lot of what I don't like about feminism is shown in this video because I probably agree on most things with this RUclips on most things and according to this quiz I'm a feminist but am adamantly opposed to being a feminist. The reason I say this is not because of those extremes at the end of the spectrum that any movement is going to have but I disagree with a lot of what feminism says based on my experiences as a man. For example I've never been called bossy usually they're are not nearly that nice about it, I try to be nice to everyone I've had so many "friends" that I absolutely despised because of this, I've been judged on what I wore more times than I can count also for not shaving, and more but those weren't brought in this video. I know not every man is like this just like not everyone woman is not the same as the person who made this video, but I am frankly sick and tired of women telling me what a experience is like for men we cannot judge the world from our little snapshot that we actually get to see of it. I think everyone should try to be nice not necceasarily cherry if your not really feeling it at the time but I think it's the nice thing to do. I think everyone should have access to birth control cuz it helps to stop the spread of stds and sexually transmitted children. And I think that an employer should be able to higher whoever they want not because I think we shouldn't hire an assortment of people but we can't tell people who they can hire it's simply not the right of the government to do so. They have a right to be a sexist pig just as we have a right to not buy products from a sexist pig. Also I hate the policing of language like some people both men and women can be objectively bossy. And I've never seen anger as being a cultivated trait in my entire life that's personally just ridiculously that anyone could think that men are taught to be angry.
Also if a man cannot understand what it's like to be a woman the a woman cannot understand what it's like to be a man.
My absolute least favorite thing about feminism is this though. It's that so many are so concerned about language yet in feminism the word chosen to represent the fight for i quality essentially means women(feminism) and the source of inequality essentially just means men(patriarchy). So men aren't the enemy but we named the enemy after you.
If you've made it this far through my rant congrats and please respond cuz I honestly do want to know what you think I know very few people that call themselves feminist even though I live in a very liberal place so please I want to talk with you.
But gender pay gap is equal, at least in the west
I feel like I recognize the questions on the quiz so maybe I have taken it? I don't remember what I got though.
22/50
I got 36/50
About what I expected. Almost always supposedly feminist things on any mainstream site get thrown out as talking points in Sound-Bite and buzzword form, as things are phrased and framed for popculture and repeatability, not for comprehension. Buzz feed is particularly bad for this. Complex sociological subjects getting passed around in half understood call-and-repeat form feel like a trap, you might agree with the concept, but you're not even sure the poster/speaker grasps the meaning of the words they're bloody using. Arg
unrelated but did you recently start stretching your ears? they look cool :)
It's not pry-mer, it's prim-er.
this was not in my sub box
:(
Naaa...Just not a communist in panties here.
lol, i got 43 and yes a lot of the "questions" are weird.
So silly thing but can you make a video about why you hate jennifer lawrence? I dont know why i care
I'm 30/50 :/
Isn't 'you guys' gender neutral by now? My brother (in SoCal) calls his daughters dude so... Maybe we've neutered them by now(?) ;)
Affirmative action doesn't mean you're getting jobs you're not qualified for but I've been a part of the hiring process and it very much often means favoring someone less qualified. They do this to avoid the accusation of sexism, and it's essentially unspoken gender quotas. An accusation of discrimination could really hurt a business. Affirmative action is also in direct violation of the civil rights act and I think it does more harm than good, but I guess we only care about discrimination in one direction.
Also the "equally qualified" thing isn't really how any of this works, there's always varying degrees of qualifications/experience. Plus a company may actually be looking for less qualified people to train in their own image, who haven't already picked up what they might consider bad habits depending on how they do things. It's common in entry to mid level tech not to favor the most qualified. The scenario you're painting ignores a lot of nuance. But yeah I get that you're more of an academic, so lack exposure to all this stuff.
EH!!! WRONG! Try again
Don't have to. What I said was correct.
Mason Anderson You're a fucking idiot
This quiz is stupid
You don't think there are real differences between the genders?
Depends on what do you mean by "real"? I think your question is not clear.