How homophobic are you? (quiz inside)

[boann]

21 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic."

In his 1996 study of 64 white, male college students, Dr. Henry Adams classed 29 participants as "non-homophobic." Their mean score was 30.48, however, placing most of the men outside of this sub-group. Dr. Adams reported that he had difficulty finding heterosexual men whose scores ranked them as high-grade non-homophobic

[Az]

13 - some really stupid question. I do make jokes about gay people, and can sometimes use the parallel of the 'f' word in Russian, but I really try to cut down on that. Blame school . The funny thing is that I found out what it meant only a lot of time after it entered my "bad word" lexicon.

[Gibsie]

I got 9. Then I read this thread and thoroughly confused myself, as I thought the scale was 1 to 10, then I saw people getting higher scores which I assumed meant they were less homophobic than me, then realised I had it arse-end up, and in conclusion, I'm not homophobic.

[Space05us]

25 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic."


this quiz gets the official seal of suckyness

[Q Classic]

it's blindingly obvious what you should choose to get a high score.

in any case, i still got a 15, mostly because i plum don't care what one's orientation is.

[Gangerolf]

30 - Your score rates you as "non-homophobic."

[Agathon]

I suppose that no one has pointed out that homophobia is a misleading term since it assumes that one dislikes homosexuals because one is afraid of them. Yet another example of politics infecting language.

[self biased]

Originally posted by boann
21 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic."

In his 1996 study of 64 white, male college students, Dr. Henry Adams classed 29 participants as "non-homophobic." Their mean score was 30.48, however, placing most of the men outside of this sub-group. Dr. Adams reported that he had difficulty finding heterosexual men whose scores ranked them as high-grade non-homophobic

myself as well...

[Zopperoni]

34.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Agathon
I suppose that no one has pointed out that homophobia is a misleading term since it assumes that one dislikes homosexuals because one is afraid of them. Yet another example of politics infecting language.

But isn't fear, or unsecureness, the main reason of anti-homosexual hatred?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Gay Homophobe!

shaddup

[Giancarlo]

Face it Mrfun, i'm less homophobic then you.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Agathon
What a dumbass question:

"Do Gays deserve everything they get?"

These questions are stupid.

"I tease and make jokes about gay people" - Yes, and everyone else as well.

I got 17. I suspect my latent misanthropy didn't help.

[Asher]

Haha. I did the quiz with the scale wrong, I thought 5 = strongly agree, 1 = strongly disagree as it usually is.

Oh well.

92 - Your score rates you as "high-grade homophobic."

In his 1996 study of 64 Caucasian, male college students, Dr. Henry Adams classed 35 participants as "homophobic." Their mean score was 80.40, placing many of the study participants in the high-grade homophobic sub-group. This is not conclusive, however. Dr. Adams, the researcher who helped develop this scale, writes that "a major difficulty of this area of research is in defining and measuring homophobia." Elsewhere, he cautions: Since there is no universally accepted definition of homophobia, the scales currently in use may not measure all aspects of homophobia.

[Sava]

14 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic."

I think that's a good score.