Your Pirate Quiz/Pirate Pickup Lines are sexist! Where are the good answers for female pirates, ye scurvy dogs?
A. The Pirate Personality Index is a much-abbreviated version of a longer, more complete and more gender-balanced test that will be available in our book, once we find a publisher. We’re all for female pirates, believe us (and if we said otherwise, the Lusty Wench and the Web Wench would kick our butts). A woman can be a cap’n just as well as a man – in fact, the most successful pirate ever was a woman, Ching Yih Saoa, the widow of dread Chinese pirate Ching Yih. When he died, she took over the prosperous family pirating business and made it immensely more successful than ever. With a fleet of more than 1,000 junks divided into five independent squadrons, Ching Yih Saoa was not only the most successful woman pirate, she was easily the most successful pirate ever, anywhere. But OK, OK … we’ve revised the online PPI test to make it more gender-balanced. As for the pickup lines, we’ve always found they work equally well (depending on how you define “well” whether delivered by a guy tryi
