Am I Gay or Straight? Maybe This Fun Quiz Will Tell Me
Am I Gay or Straight? Maybe This Fun Quiz Will Tell Me
My habit started in middle school, in the backs of magazines like CosmoGirl
and Seventeen and Teen Vogue, where short quizzes promised girls guidance on issues ranging from “Does he like you?” to “How much does he like you?” Each Valentine’s Day in high school, our first-period teachers would pass out Scantron forms for a service called CompuDate, which promised to match each hormonal teenager with her most compatible classmate of the opposite sex, without regard for the social consequences.
My quizzes might ask, “Which One Direction member is your soul mate?” or “What type of ghost would you be?”
But I already knew what I wanted those answers to be, and my quizzes simply bore them out.
I remember politically incorrect and leading questions, such as “When you think about the type of person you want to marry, do they have short hair, like a
man, or long hair, like a woman?” One quiz took my lack of interest in driving a pickup truck as definitive evidence that I was not, in fact, a lesbian.
I’d never had a boyfriend or even slept with a man, and I didn’t particularly like going on dates with men or hanging out with them, but I thought
that was normal — all of my friends constantly complained about the guys they were dating.
My habit started in middle school, in the backs of magazines like CosmoGirl
and Seventeen and Teen Vogue, where short quizzes promised girls guidance on issues ranging from “Does he like you?” to “How much does he like you?” Each Valentine’s Day in high school, our first-period teachers would pass out Scantron forms for a service called CompuDate, which promised to match each hormonal teenager with her most compatible classmate of the opposite sex, without regard for the social consequences.
My quizzes might ask, “Which One Direction member is your soul mate?” or “What type of ghost would you be?”
But I already knew what I wanted those answers to be, and my quizzes simply bore them out.
I remember politically incorrect and leading questions, such as “When you think about the type of person you want to marry, do they have short hair, like a
man, or long hair, like a woman?” One quiz took my lack of interest in driving a pickup truck as definitive evidence that I was not, in fact, a lesbian.
I’d never had a boyfriend or even slept with a man, and I didn’t particularly like going on dates with men or hanging out with them, but I thought
that was normal — all of my friends constantly complained about the guys they were dating.
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