Thanks to the hard work of Argenti Aertheri and the suggestions of various other Boobzers, the Man Boobz survey is now up and ready to be taken. It will give me — and all of you — a better picture of just what sort of people read Man Boobz on a regular basis. It’s completely anonymous. Go take it! It will only take a few minutes.
I will probably leave it up for a couple of days, and will report the results here as soon as the numbers are crunched.
I think pretty much any other question you might have about it will probably be answered on the survey itself, so hop to it!
Thanks Argenti!
That’s not Ceiling Cat and Basement Cat, that’s Longcat and Tacgnol!
Google haz betrayed me! I searched Basement Cat and that pic came up (which it does every time).
MISCATRY!
To be fair, I think there’s a lot of syncretism in lolcat religion.
It could just be that Google has been infiltrated.
Well done Argenti. Best. Survey. Evah!
sredni_vashtar: Ooh, another Munro fan. 🙂
Which is to say, I should like to come back as an Otter.
@Skybison
Essentially:
Social democracy is a capitalistic system with a strong welfare state and/or government oversight in industry. Think of the Nordic countries, or to a lesser extent most Commonwealth countries.
Democratic socialism is democratically-elected true socialist system (i.e., with workers’ control of the means of production) or can refer to heavily democratic “botton-up” socialist systems. Think Chavista Venezuela.
US “liberalism” tends to mean a support of weak social democracy.
If you mean the Canadian NDP and you’re not just voting for them as the lesser of however many evils while waiting for the revolution, you’d probably want to tick social democracy.
SkyBison, welcome! Please to accept one Official Manboobz Welcome Package. 🙂
That survey was fun. But now I need to think harder about which political theory makes the most sense.
Oh my, so excited to see the data from this poll once it’s available! 😀 😀 😀
David Futrelle,
I just took the survey. I’m waiting to see the results.
Thanks lowquacks 🙂
Yeah Social Democracy sounds right. No offense to any democratic socialists but it sounds too utopian and idealistic for my taste. SD appears more practical possible.
And SPINNING SEAL YAY!
Done. … This was fun. Which is saying something, because I don’t like taking surveys at all. (Even less since our politicians began misusing them.)
This is the first survey I’ve taken that had interesting and fun questions! There should be more like it.
Done. Hope it got sent as I did it on my phone. Great survey, Argenti
Nice one, Argenti 😀
Skipped the politics one – I have no idea what any of them mean, and still wouldn’t even if someone explained.
Awesome survey! Thankyouthankyouthankyou…
1. I’m middle class, but looks like in the U.S. I would be considered low class, by those ridiculously high income standards.
2. I’m atheist, and whenever I don’t check the ‘religious’ box in surveys I have this strange feeling like I’m losing a part of my identity.
3. OMG there was a ‘neo Nazi’ box in the political views. XD you’re killing me.
4. I am also a cat in David suit.
5. I can’t wait for the results!
Awesome survey.
I couldn’t answer the class one though- I’m dirt poor with a college education.
Impressive survey. This is the level of inclusivity every survey should have.
Just one one question I didn’t get: “Are you political?” What does it mean? Active? Party member? Interested? Or something else?
@Talacaris
Presumably could mean any of those things. Really opinionated = really political, really involved in party politics or political activism also = really political, and so on.
@Nepenthe
@katz
Thanks. I think I’ll stick with “androgynous” for now, even if it’s not 100% correct. 🙂
Done and that was awesome Argenti!
Only issue I had was what other people have pointed out, that the class options appear to be very US based.
In the UK there is some overlap in terms of what class is but it is less directly linked to money, though education is a factor. Also Upper Class essentially means aristocracy.
Though actually it would be tricky to do a survey based on UK ideas of class for an international audience. UK people know what class they are even if they couldn’t quite articulate exactly what makes them that class, it’s a much more amorphous concept than in the US. So you wouldn’t need or even be able to put definitions for class but that wouldn’t work for anyone from outside the UK.
I put Upper Middle because that’s what I am in UK terms and also I think that my family would roughly fit into that category (or has done in the past) in it’s US definition.
Also I found the Politics category quite US centric as well, none of the options really worked all that well with the UK political spectrum.
However please don’t take this to heart, this is a US based website and therefore it’s perfectly reasonable to have the survey be based on US ideas. Also a lot of the UK stuff would only really be understood by Brits, so it’s be a bit of a waste of time to put it in just for the Brits.
Whatever happened to “genteel poverty” as a descriptor, eh? 😉