Hello again, fine readers! I’m sitting here doing this assignment for my social psychology class and I’m finding it very interesting. It’s an implicit attitudes test, and it basically measures what your “gut reactions” (for lack of a better term) are to certain topics, like religion, race, weight, gender, etc. We’re supposed to do three, and these two came out interestingly: Fat and Thin, and Gay and Straight.

I’m in that little 4% bar. This one I expected. However, I find it disturbing that so many people prefer to any degree thinner people to heavier people. I guess that’s just our culture mixed slightly with evolutionary preferences (such as the perfect female waist:hip ratio for reproduction, which, surprisingly, I’m really, really close to).

I’m in that little 6% bar. This one I was surprised at. This by no means suggests that I’m disappointed with my results, people! I’ve just always thought of myself as having equal preference for both sides. Maybe I slightly prefer gay people because I’ve actually started hanging out with more than one/two gay people I knew from high school—now I know about 10 gay people personally. Who knows? I really don’t care if you’re straight or gay.

I just thought it was interesting. Here’s the link if you want to try them out—I think there’s 14 of them.