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Home for Thanksgiving and Not Interested in the Game, Your Cousins, or More Pie?

Dan Savage
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1
Aren't you under the table yet, Dan?
Hope you're day has gone well.
LavaGirl on November 27, 2014 at 3:45 PM Report this
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Shit. Before the linguistic police wake from their siestas .
I meant. Hope Your day has gone well.
LavaGirl on November 27, 2014 at 3:57 PM Report this
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Man, this survey just assumes only cisgendered people exist.



I'm a woman and I have a penis, so questions like this:



"MEN ONLY: Performed anal sex on (meaning you put your penis in their anus)?"



Tell me I don't exist.



There is also the underlying assumption in this survey that there exist only two, binary genders.
imhkr on November 27, 2014 at 4:06 PM Report this
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The hell? I took the whole survey and it didn't tell me whick Punk Rock Icon I am.
--MC on November 27, 2014 at 4:26 PM Report this
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The survey asked if I was in a relationship. I said no. Then it proceeded to ask me about my relationship and partner.



I left those all blank.
Urgutha Forka on November 27, 2014 at 4:38 PM Report this
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What do you call someone who is not getting paid to work and not self-employed, nor looking for work, yet is also neither retired or disabled? Does anybody exist outside those categories? Let me think...
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn on November 27, 2014 at 5:08 PM Report this
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The asymmetry of asking if you've ever put your penis in someone's anus, if you've ever had a penis in your anus, and if you've ever had a strap-on/plug in your anus, without "have you ever pegged someone," is, well, an asymmetry.
Orsh on November 27, 2014 at 5:28 PM Report this
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@3 - there were some missing bits all over this survey - as an old widowed person not currently sexually active, I also felt that many questions forgot that people like me exist. I'd blame it more on bad survey design than anything exclusionary.
It could have really used some neutral options - lots of times I wanted to hit "don't care" rather than "agree" or "disagree".
agony on November 27, 2014 at 5:47 PM Report this
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@6 - Yeah, I'm currently not working outside the home and not looking for work, taking care of my kids. It seems pretty strange that a survey would forget such a large category.
on November 27, 2014 at 6:23 PM Report this
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@3 I am a woman with a strap-on and I was left out of the previous set of questions.
Marrena on November 27, 2014 at 7:14 PM Report this
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@3,
The survey asks if you are trans, but that question comes much later than makes sense.

@5,
Yeah. Not the best format. And if you answer "other" to the relationship status, it asks for an explanation but doesn't open a dialog for input.

I'm single, but not dating anyone. This in no way means that I'm not sexually active. This assumes that dating means doing things outside of the bedroom/play space.

This survey was clearly not made with people like me in mind.
vab251 on November 27, 2014 at 7:46 PM Report this
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No really good category for a person like me, no longer sexually active or interested but with plenty of previous experience. perhaps they want to narrow down their types of respondents, or expand their categories. Asking about number of sex partners and which specific acts were done with how many.... why? At least offer a range if that info is useful in any way. I dunno...was I supposed to keep score for the last 40 years? "More than five years ago" but they want numbers?
on November 27, 2014 at 8:40 PM Report this
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So, I confess. when I got to the part in which it started asking me about my partner after I told it I was single, I backed off a month or so and used the unhappy relationship I finally got myself out of. I mean, had they asked me anytime in the past year (possibly longer), that's how I would have answered, so doesn't skew anything statistically.



Sad how clear things become when laid out on a survey like that.
wingedkat on November 27, 2014 at 8:41 PM Report this
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LOL, ye olde methodology is fuckd.
venomlash on November 27, 2014 at 9:21 PM Report this
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@8 -- I agree. I would really like to have had the "don't care" option on a lot of the questions, especially since I'm an old retired guy and happily single.
Calpete on November 27, 2014 at 9:32 PM Report this
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It took way too long, too many questions. I gave up.
originalcinner on November 27, 2014 at 9:41 PM Report this
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Once the column descriptors scrolled off the screen, I made up my own answers with random meanings. For some questions, I answered as if the columns were:

Fnarf -- KellyO -- LavaGirl -- Will-inSeattle.
on November 27, 2014 at 11:02 PM Report this
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@17. Say what?
LavaGirl on November 27, 2014 at 11:41 PM Report this
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There was not a neutral option on the four point scale questions. I neither like nor dislike when my partner flirts with other people. And whereas I like it when she does housework or childcare, I don't like it in a sexual way.

And I've been in an open relationship with my partner for over 20 years. The idea that I have some sexual fantasy that I'm holding back for her, but will totally share with surveymonkey, is pretty funny.
L0k1 on November 28, 2014 at 5:45 AM Report this
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Adding my not-so-much frustration as eventual indifference to a survey that didn't adapt to how one answered the first few questions. Uh ... if one is bi and poly, but it's impossible to check both *man and *woman. Design fail.
Helenka (also a Canuck) on November 28, 2014 at 6:06 AM Report this
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They should have included some survey logic! Ask the demographic questions first and then filter which questions you get based on your responses to those questions. i.e. MEN ONLY questions won't apply to women. If you say you're not in a relationship, you don't get relationship questions... etc.
on November 28, 2014 at 6:21 AM Report this
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A very poorly designed survey.
I answered the first couple of questions and indicated that I didn't have a "partner," and then scrolled through pages of questions I couldn't answer. I stopped before finding out whether there were questions that pertain to me. There's a way to structure a survey so that if you answer an initial question one way you can skip to question #___ or you're redirected. (if you answered "yes", please skip to question ___. If you answered "sometimes," please skip to question ___. If you answered "no," please continue. etc.)
nocutename on November 28, 2014 at 9:08 AM Report this
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This survey has some serious issues.

"7. How long has it been since you and your partner have had sex together? (if you have never had sex together, write “0” in each)"

Does this mean, "since the first time", or, "since the last time"? And in either case, what if the answer is "10 minutes"? Are you supposed to say it's been a month? That's pretty dumb.

Also, as was noted above, it has a lot of mono/heteronormative assumptions built in. (Like, it asks if your partner is a man or a woman. To which my answer is: Nope.)
Auros on November 28, 2014 at 12:38 PM Report this
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Oh, and there's no way to say "Not Applicable" to some items where it really needs that. (Like: "Seeing my partner take good care of the children")
Auros on November 28, 2014 at 12:50 PM Report this
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@23: Exactly what stopped me. Glad I wasn't the only one confused.
hurrdahurr on November 28, 2014 at 8:32 PM Report this
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Yeah, this survey was really badly designed. When they asked "kissing more often" I thought... more often than what?
alguna_rubia on December 1, 2014 at 12:09 AM Report this

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