Relationship Meme
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greenstormFirst try through says this:
You are a XPYT--Expressive Practical Physical Taker. This makes you a Player.
You are clever, sexy and sexually oriented. You know what you want and how to get it. You command attention in a room of strangers, as your charisma, your personality and your spending habits are all oriented toward making an impression on your target sex. You pay attention to details.
You reel people in easily, but have a harder time keeping them around since you are just as demanding in a long term relationship as you are on a night out. Combine your demanding nature with the fact that you're hard to keep up with and easily bored, and you get a recipe for problems with fidelity.
In a conflict, you're brutal -- you know how to unleash one cutting remark that turns a normal fight into a brawl or a breakup. Your general attitude is you just don't have time for fighting -- if you feel like your current partner doesn't understand you, you know you can find another one.
You may see yourself in a parent and dislike his/her choices, so you want to avoid them for yourself. You feel confined by social pressures, both to pair up and stay paired. It will (and should) take you years to settle (and for you, it may really feel like you're settling).
Please use a condom.
Of the 176855 people who have taken this quiz, 8 % are this type.
This quiz can be found here. http://hokev.brinkster.net/quiz/default.asp?quiz=Better+Relationship&page=1
Next time through: You are a RPYG--Reserved Practical Physical Giver. This makes you a 1950s Parent. Heh.
Now, relationship memes tend to make me pretty wary. They don't usually have space within them for the poly paradigm, for instance, and they're... well, pretty trite. I kinda wonder about this one, though. There are some accuracies, and some things that I'm afraid might be accurate. Doing it twice, I realise that they probably all have at least a paragraph that is accurate to me.
Memes in general remind me of the horoscope game. Take the horoscopes in the paper, cut them out, and black out the sign name on all of them. Then, let people try to choose 'theirs'. About half will apply, often more.
Memes are more interesting to me, though, because of the phraseology. I am a ---. I am a horse. I am a paper doll. I am the movie Titanic. I am a bungalow. I am Brad Pitt. I am a keyboard. That sort of totemism, taking on characteristics of a thing and self-defining that way (to the extent that those sort of statements are all some people post in livejournal) -- what a weird social trend it is, no? Or maybe it isn't weird in the unusual-over-history sense, but there's something mind-bending going on there when people are continuously asking little internet quizzes, 'who am I?.'
My meme response:
Tangent aside, yes, I'm not into 'typical monogamous fidelity', I'm pretty into sex, I don't think I command attention in a room of strangers, er, I hope my life is oriented towards doing other things than making an impression although some things I do lean in that direction. I'm demanding, yes. I'm easily bored by boring people, which is why I always end up with people who have no time for me - they need to have a life. I think I can deal with that now, though. I totally feel that way about fighting, nowadays, although long-term partners aren't so replacable as all that ;P. I don't say those cutting remarks aloud often. I'm totally avoiding being like my parents. And I don't think I feel confined by social pressures? And, dude, I use multiple condoms! You're not supposed to re-use. ;)
What percentage of accuracy is that?
You are a XPYT--Expressive Practical Physical Taker. This makes you a Player.
You are clever, sexy and sexually oriented. You know what you want and how to get it. You command attention in a room of strangers, as your charisma, your personality and your spending habits are all oriented toward making an impression on your target sex. You pay attention to details.
You reel people in easily, but have a harder time keeping them around since you are just as demanding in a long term relationship as you are on a night out. Combine your demanding nature with the fact that you're hard to keep up with and easily bored, and you get a recipe for problems with fidelity.
In a conflict, you're brutal -- you know how to unleash one cutting remark that turns a normal fight into a brawl or a breakup. Your general attitude is you just don't have time for fighting -- if you feel like your current partner doesn't understand you, you know you can find another one.
You may see yourself in a parent and dislike his/her choices, so you want to avoid them for yourself. You feel confined by social pressures, both to pair up and stay paired. It will (and should) take you years to settle (and for you, it may really feel like you're settling).
Please use a condom.
Of the 176855 people who have taken this quiz, 8 % are this type.
This quiz can be found here. http://hokev.brinkster.net/quiz/default.asp?quiz=Better+Relationship&page=1
Next time through: You are a RPYG--Reserved Practical Physical Giver. This makes you a 1950s Parent. Heh.
Now, relationship memes tend to make me pretty wary. They don't usually have space within them for the poly paradigm, for instance, and they're... well, pretty trite. I kinda wonder about this one, though. There are some accuracies, and some things that I'm afraid might be accurate. Doing it twice, I realise that they probably all have at least a paragraph that is accurate to me.
Memes in general remind me of the horoscope game. Take the horoscopes in the paper, cut them out, and black out the sign name on all of them. Then, let people try to choose 'theirs'. About half will apply, often more.
Memes are more interesting to me, though, because of the phraseology. I am a ---. I am a horse. I am a paper doll. I am the movie Titanic. I am a bungalow. I am Brad Pitt. I am a keyboard. That sort of totemism, taking on characteristics of a thing and self-defining that way (to the extent that those sort of statements are all some people post in livejournal) -- what a weird social trend it is, no? Or maybe it isn't weird in the unusual-over-history sense, but there's something mind-bending going on there when people are continuously asking little internet quizzes, 'who am I?.'
My meme response:
Tangent aside, yes, I'm not into 'typical monogamous fidelity', I'm pretty into sex, I don't think I command attention in a room of strangers, er, I hope my life is oriented towards doing other things than making an impression although some things I do lean in that direction. I'm demanding, yes. I'm easily bored by boring people, which is why I always end up with people who have no time for me - they need to have a life. I think I can deal with that now, though. I totally feel that way about fighting, nowadays, although long-term partners aren't so replacable as all that ;P. I don't say those cutting remarks aloud often. I'm totally avoiding being like my parents. And I don't think I feel confined by social pressures? And, dude, I use multiple condoms! You're not supposed to re-use. ;)
What percentage of accuracy is that?
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Meme - I don't get it
Date: 2005-01-14 07:06 am (UTC)I got a lot more insight by discovering my love languages.
Re: Meme - I don't get it
Date: 2005-01-14 04:07 pm (UTC)Re: Meme
Date: 2005-01-16 06:51 am (UTC)