Gay buzzfeed quiz
Online buzzfeed promise to guess your sexuality based on your favourite fruit, colour and pasta shape. Read more in the Internet wormhole series. Gay have vivid memories of combing through each questionnaire, predominantly on BuzzFeedanswering questions about my favourite animal guinea pigdream job acrobat turned weather reporter and the sports I played tennis.
I also have vivid memories of manipulating each response to seem straighter than I was. Sounds about right. No — I mean the extremely restrictive, undoubtedly sarcastic, completely unscientific quizzes that proclaim to divine queerness based on the most tenuous of preferences. You prefer spaghetti over penne?
Your favourite school subject was literature? Take this BuzzFeed quizfor example. Mark each box, the quiz demands, that applies to you — and the resulting sum is how straight you are. Do you love giant Jenga? Have you ever taken a photo with a fish? Is Perfect by Ed Sheeran the ideal wedding song? Click, click, click. The majority of the 6, respondents said they had.
How does this hobby make me look? What do people think about my pasta preference? Is everyone secretly judging my love of giant Jenga??? Yes, some will contend that these quizzes are reductive … and to those naysayers I say: duh. We know that an online quiz cannot accurately reflect the complexities of the queer experience.
While some play Minecraft and others Monopoly, I like to play my silly little sexuality quizzes in my gay corner of the internet, marvelling at my supposedly fluctuating queerness as if the level of my desire to have intercourse with the same sex was entirely dependent on my breakfast choice full English.
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Or my preferred season spring, mostly. Or the number of Bruce Springsteen albums I can name none. And remember, we are all unique. There are no wrong answers. Apart from wanting Perfect by Ed Sheeran to play at your wedding. This article is more than 1 month old. View image in fullscreen.