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Well, I ended up with a 10 - Nearly Masculine. It seems to make sense to me. While I've become more confident and less emotional as I've grown up, I still am compassionate and care for people, and I can see how it affects my score.
#1 - On the topic of labelling emotions to be either masculine or feminine, I'd say that it's generally fitting, in terms of our society. Women are allowed to exhibit their emotional traits, and as they grow, do not have to suppress them, due to what our society deems to be 'masculine' and 'feminine'. Males, on the other hand, are essentially forced to suppress their emotions, and act as if they have only joy, anger and a few other primal emotions. As a result of this fact, the emotions in columns 1 and 5 are the ones that males are encouraged to exhibit (masculine emotions), and the emtotions in 3 and 6 follow the same pattern, but for females. In this respect, I think that it is fitting to attach emotions to either one gender or another.
However, whether labelling emotions masculine and feminine is correct is an entirely different question. I feel that this labelling changed who I would have been. When I was younger, I was quite emotional, but as a result of being ostracized for that, I changed as a person, probably to fit in more. Had there not been labelling, I think I wouldn't have been forced to change who I was.
#2 - I think that having some "feminine" traits is a good thing. Being able to understand where someone else is coming from allows me to be an openminded person. I'm not saying that having no traits of compassion or sensitivity makes you closeminded, just that without those traits, one usually ends up becoming a self-centred, closeminded individual. If one couldn't understand others' emotions and situations, it would be hard to have a healthy and understanding relationship.
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