masculine vs. feminine

This is a cute vintage article testing a guys masculinity!  I've typed it all out below the picture so its easier to read!  Enjoy!

How Masculine or Feminine Are You?

You can be a real he-man and still like to make a cheese souffle.  To find out, though, how strongly masculine or feminine your interests are, study these six sets of pictures, check your preference, score yourself.

Fabrics: A. You'd pick plaid for drapes.  B. You'd prefer flowered print.

Gardening: A. You enjoy planting flowers.  B. You'd prefer vegetables.

Puttering: A. You like to make slip covers.  B. Repairing chair is more fun.

Recreation: A. You'd like to go crabbing.  B. Dancing suits you more.

Reading: A. You'd enjoy reading this.  (The Winning of the War in Europe and the Pacific)  B. You want a romantic movel.

Movies: A. Favorite movie star is a man.  B. Favorite star is a woman.

SCORING:  Under "fabrics" count one point if you checked A, two if you checked B.  In "gardening," A is two points, B is one.  In "puttering," A is two, B is one.  In "recreation," A is one, B is two.  In "reading," A is one, B is two.  In "movies," A is one, B is two.  A score of 12 indicates feminine interests, 6 shows masculine.  9 indicates a mixture of interests.

What we enjoy doing as grownups depends on early life. 

It's no reflection on your masculinity if you are a man and sometimes prefer feminine things.  Nor should you feel dismayed if you are a woman and have some masculine tastes.  There would be little basis for companionship between sexes if interests didn't overlap.  No one would say that one sex has, or should have, greater interest in the arts, painting, music, literature.  There are interests, however, which remain strongly masculine or feminine.  A child looks to his parents for guidance.  And the more a boy wishes to be the man his father is, the more he takes on his father's interests.  the same is true of a girl and her mother.

Parents will give a boy the urge to play with mechanical toys and tools, a girl the urge to play with dolls and clothes.  This does not mean that the boy chooses only masculine interests.  He loves his mother, too, and is tremendously influenced by her.  Inevitably, he grows to like many things she likes.  The child, then, is subject to various pressures.

There is the pressure from parents to follow the main interests of his six.  There is the tendency to adopt the likes and dislikes of the parent of the opposite sex.  There is the stronger urge to be as nearly as possible like the parent of the same sex.  Therefore, when the child grows up, he is not likely to make consistently masculine or feminine choices.  His choices will be a mixture of the two.