Rain Dove Dubilewski Instagram – Why do You think this turned out the way it did?
I’m a person who is perceived as all genders and non at times. Sometimes, it can be more advantageous to be perceived as one identity over the other because of bias or culture. Even though I wear what I want and face what I face every day, I decided to do a series of experiments to illustrate how my one life can have drastically different realities simply just from what I wear! “Menswear” and “womenswear” aren’t really necessary labels in my personal opinion. Nor do they make have to anyone a particular thing when You wear them. However, they DO change how people treat and identify me. Just my personal experience. Yours may be different.
For this experiment, I conducted it over several days and asked over 500 people in either outfit to contact a friend with their cellphone. This was done in Central London, Dalston, and Kilburn. The results were clear. 3x more likely to get help in “menswear”. Along with longer reasonings for rejections. Yet over 90% of detected street scammers in London identify as men. When I did a poll about my outfits, 86% of 500 random people thought I was a cis man in “menswear”. While 61% of people thought I was a trans woman in “womenswear” and 32% a cis woman. With 7% saying I was a cis man.
Why was this experiment done? Well a phone is often an essential tool for folx to get home with. Money, communication and more are on it! There are many times my phone has died and I needed help but saw that simply removing my jacket could change my ability to get it respectfully. For me personally, I want to be able to get help equally presented. However it’s useful to understand biases as well so we can confront them and dive through them.
Do You think Youd get a different result? Why so?
*also note: anyone who rejected helping me is valid (except the swearing human lol). It’s ok to say no and there are many reasons one might choose to.
#socialexperiment #lgbtqia #genderfluid #transpride #questioning | Posted on 22/Mar/2023 00:54:12
