You Totally Had "Be A Guinea Pig" On Your To-Do List, Anyway

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Hey, dudes! Feel like filling out a survey? Well, I've got one for you: childthursday is doing a sociology survey asking what race/ethnicity you'd associate with individual American Girl dolls here. A couple are surprisingly hard and got weirdly specific answers out of me, but mostly it's fairly straightforward, and you don't really have to know anything about American Girl to take the survey.* And it'll be interesting to see what conclusions she comes up with.


*Although if you are afraid of the soulless gaze of the evil idol, you may want to skip.

Comments

[childthursday.livejournal.com]

I am glad that you were pleased with the options. I do feel regretful for literally "Othering" people, but I struggled to find terms that were both inclusive and specific. So I tried to create a space where people could define themselves - or not, as the choice might be.

I have had several respondents express appreciation of this section of the survey, and my answer to that is mostly that I regret that more surveys don't have these options.

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

Since non-cisgender identification isn't exactly covered in formal English, and isn't in most folks' vocabulary, it would be difficult to include all other options; I don't feel that the "other" option is a bad word choice there. Since most surveys don't offer it, it's notable and makes me happy to see it. Here's hoping that more surveys will include it in future.