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Apr. 24th, 2009 10:48 amMeta that is and should never be. Right lol.
Okay, so I was thinking. Male characters as women. We all know genderbender fanfic exists and some of us love it. I, particularly love it for the revenge factor. "Yeah, that's what cramps feel like! Now tell me I'm being melodramatic, you bastard!" Yes, I admit it's petty, but I don't exactly get to express those sentiments RL-side, so doing it in fiction is nicely cathartic. But... you know, it doesn't really address all the pain of being a girl, does it? There's a lot of things that suck for women that you only really notice if you were raised dealing with it, or if people apply it to you, which arguably isn't likely to happen in a magical-vagina scenario.
( feminine overdrive rant goes here )
That's part of the reason why I like genderswitch fic. It's easy to say "it's just the same character with different plumbing", but it's not. Really it's not. Societal pressures are totally different for a girl than for a boy. It changes things, sometimes in ways that can be huge when you actually sit down and factor these things in. The whole story has to adjust itself around the character, not because he's a she, but because she experienced different struggles than he did.
To pull out a completely shameless plug, I wrote a (bad) HP fic that genderswitched everyone, and I mean everyone. I had to write out a list of alternate names in order to keep track of them. HP is odd in terms of gender and feminist issues, so there didn't seem to be much to go on, but some things were pretty radical. One character that changed the most was Draco/Dracaena.
( Shameless Plug )
Now for the completely random headcanon that I've been thinking of: Tony Stark. Born a girl. I can blame this train of thought on what got me into the fandom. Namely, this. They started it; I'm just dragging the idea out to its logical conclusion. Except that I'm going to go with Toni (from Antonia) rather than Natasha. There are reasons for this. (Mostly that I think there are reasons she would shorten her name to a short, sharp sound, and "Nat" doesn't seem like a good name.)
( Tony in a dress! Woo! )
After that, my headcanon runs out, because my canon runs out lol. I've really no idea how Toni would handle all the crap Tony went through and continues to go through.
WHEW. Now that that's out of my system, I can feel safe never ever writing it. I have too many fics as it is, lol. (zomg 2,400 words of rambling, wtf?)
Okay, so I was thinking. Male characters as women. We all know genderbender fanfic exists and some of us love it. I, particularly love it for the revenge factor. "Yeah, that's what cramps feel like! Now tell me I'm being melodramatic, you bastard!" Yes, I admit it's petty, but I don't exactly get to express those sentiments RL-side, so doing it in fiction is nicely cathartic. But... you know, it doesn't really address all the pain of being a girl, does it? There's a lot of things that suck for women that you only really notice if you were raised dealing with it, or if people apply it to you, which arguably isn't likely to happen in a magical-vagina scenario.
( feminine overdrive rant goes here )
That's part of the reason why I like genderswitch fic. It's easy to say "it's just the same character with different plumbing", but it's not. Really it's not. Societal pressures are totally different for a girl than for a boy. It changes things, sometimes in ways that can be huge when you actually sit down and factor these things in. The whole story has to adjust itself around the character, not because he's a she, but because she experienced different struggles than he did.
To pull out a completely shameless plug, I wrote a (bad) HP fic that genderswitched everyone, and I mean everyone. I had to write out a list of alternate names in order to keep track of them. HP is odd in terms of gender and feminist issues, so there didn't seem to be much to go on, but some things were pretty radical. One character that changed the most was Draco/Dracaena.
( Shameless Plug )
Now for the completely random headcanon that I've been thinking of: Tony Stark. Born a girl. I can blame this train of thought on what got me into the fandom. Namely, this. They started it; I'm just dragging the idea out to its logical conclusion. Except that I'm going to go with Toni (from Antonia) rather than Natasha. There are reasons for this. (Mostly that I think there are reasons she would shorten her name to a short, sharp sound, and "Nat" doesn't seem like a good name.)
( Tony in a dress! Woo! )
After that, my headcanon runs out, because my canon runs out lol. I've really no idea how Toni would handle all the crap Tony went through and continues to go through.
WHEW. Now that that's out of my system, I can feel safe never ever writing it. I have too many fics as it is, lol. (zomg 2,400 words of rambling, wtf?)
