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By Gene Weingarten

Sunday, June 15, 2003

Are you male or female?

To find out, take this test devised by feminist Gina Barreca and me. If you think you don't need it, you're hopelessly out of date. Modern psychologists believe that one's physical equipment is nearly irrelevant: Gender, they say, exists on a vast continuum, with Betty Boop on one end, and Jesse Ventura on the other. The rest of us are distributed in between.

To find out where you stand on the Boop-Ventura Continuum, circle all correct answers.

1. You might drive at 100 miles per hour if:

a. Your child were bleeding to death and you had to get to the hospital.

b. You were being pursued by a homicidal maniac.

c. You had too much to drink.

d. It was a rental.

2. You are fat. This makes you feel:

a. Suicidal.

b. Awful.

c. Fat.

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