What Kind of Girl Am I?

[willow_red]

I am a hybrid of: Progressive Girl Academic Girl Click on the pictures below to read more: Take the 'What Kind of Girl Are You?' quiz at CookingToHookup.com

The Progressive Girl
Moderation in all things, excess in nothing.
-- Epicurus

Imagine that the Girl Next Door moved to the big city. Think of Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally. She's America's sweetheart with an urban sensibility. She's a post-Christian spiritualist, a pre-Monica Clintonite, and a dues-paying member of at least one social-change organization like NOW, Planned Parenthood, or the Sierra Club. You won't find her at an Earth First or PETA meeting, though. Those are the Granola Girl's stomping grounds. Progressive Girls want the world to be a better place, but they live out their politics in a moderate, left-of-center way.

If you are going to date a Progressive Girl, the one sin you can commit is to be a chameleon. Molding your opinions to fit hers will lose her respect. One very positive thing you can do is offer her new experiences -- the Progressive Girl is fearless about trying new things. Whether it's pluralism, skydiving, Asian peanut sauce, or this book, the Progressive Girl is always looking for new ideas.

She Might Be a Progressive Girl if:

1. She drives: a small SUV but really wishes it got better mileage; once she can get a good hybrid, she will.
2. She can talk for more than ten minutes about: just about anything.
3. She begins her sentences with: "Susan Sarandon says..."
4. She'd never: pass up the chance for a new experience.
5. She owns any of the following: a water filter, a tabletop fountain, an acre of rain forest, a mutt from the pound.

Well, the checks I bought send a small donation to the Sierra Club, but I'm not actually a member. Number one: I already drive a good hybrid. Number two: I like to think so; my interests are pretty diverse. Number three: Um, no. I didn't know who half the people were on that list, so that wasn't a good gauge. Number four: I'm a little more timid than that, but most of the time, sure. Number five: I do own a water filter, I've sold t-shirts to raise money to buy acres of rain forest (though I do actually "own" some land on the Moon), and I've been looking at mutts at the pound.

The Academic Girl
La-la-la I'm in love with a four-eyed girl.
-- Rhett Miller

If you want to date the Academic Girl, it's time to hit the books, or at least hit the bookstore. This is the girl you never met in college because you never spent an evening in the Rare Books Room. Or, if you did, you were too busy reading rare books.

Actually, the Academic Girl has never really left the university, not because she's still chugging margaritas (see The Party Girl) or wearing her college colors (see The Girl Next Door), but because the Academic Girl is a lifelong learner, eternally seeking knowledge and culture and the answers to the Big Questions. This is the Girl whose favorite date is a lecture, whose cat is named Plato, and whose favorite love note is a footnote.

She Might Be an Academic Girl if:

1. She drives: a Volvo, a Saab, or a Toyota.
2. She can talk for more than ten minutes about: her thesis.
3. She begins her sentences with: "Noam Chomsky says . . ."
4. She'd never: read Cosmo.
5. She owns any of the following: an Oxford English Dictionary, any book written in a "dead" language (Greek, Latin, Aramaic, etc.), a lifetime membership to Mensa.

This one is pretty accurate too. I do miss college, and love libraries and bookstores. I wouldn't have a cat (and if I did, it would be Schroedinger long before Plato). Number one: I used to drive a Volvo. Number two: If I had a thesis, this would be true. Number three: I...don't know who that is *hides*. Number four: Ugh, no response required. Number five: Yes, I have a copy of Beowulf in Old and Modern English, and hope to read it before much longer.

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Why wasn't "Geek Girl" an option, damn it? *gryn*