perverse-idyll ([identity profile] perverse-idyll.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van 2009-08-31 07:02 am (UTC)

I'm really sorry you posted this here, because I took your good-faith support to mean that this survey was being done by people who understood fandom and were interested in some of the questions we've been discussing internally for years.

I found the survey questions increasingly disturbing and insidious in their underlying assumptions as I progressed through the list. I left several unanswered altogether because they were biased or non-inclusive or just plain offensive. Now I REALLY wish I'd never participated, and I've tried to go back and either eradicate or skew my answers.

Read their explanatory post, people. They're looking to fandom for evidence to support a hypothesis that that males and females are hard-wired differently:

"We're deeply interested in broad-based behavioral data that involves romantic or erotic cognition and evinces a clear distinction between men and women."

It seems to me that what they hope to provoke with this survey are the kind of answers that will fit a preconceived, highly problematic, and culturally regressive premise.

I wish this had been pointed out beforehand. I realize it was my responsibility to read the explanatory notes more closely before taking the survey, but I wouldn't even have been interested if [livejournal.com profile] crack_van hadn't endorsed it. *sigh*


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