[ SECRET POST #2893 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2893 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that this is really fair, though. Particularly this: "However, if I'm being perfectly honest, I'd react to such a fic in the same way I would react to a fic that made a canonically male character female and paired that character with another canonical male. Specifically, I'd raise an eyebrow."

I LOVE slash. I read TONS of it. But I love gender swapping characters as well. Like Steve and Bucky from Captain America. I love reading fan fiction where Steve is a woman because I think it does, in a lot of ways, parallel some of the restrictions that Steve faced in canon because of his size while at the same time adding an entirely new and different dimension to his friendship/relationship with Bucky.

That and…I've found that I, personally, very much tend to HUGELY identify with the main character of a work regardless of sex/gender. I love Samus, Jade (from Beyond Good and Evil), Katniss, etc. But that's because they're main characters, rather than side characters or major supporting characters. The same is true for my favorite male characters like Steve Rogers, Jim Kirk, Light Yagami, etc -- they're almost always the main protagonists. But there's just so many more males than females that sometimes I do enjoy gender swapping them.

[xenomantid]

Ah. Thank you for your perspective; I hadn't considered viewpoints like yours before. I was referring to people who wrote gender-swaps to get around the prospect of writing slash.

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I know what you mean. I don't see that as often nowadays, but it used to be annoyingly prevalent. I think the fandom that drove me the most crazy with it was Ranma 1/2. Half the time when writers paired Ranma with another dude, they would have him ~magically~ get permanently stuck in his female form and then only refer to him as "she" so that they could hook him up with dudes without feeling like they were writing icky yaoi. It was so dumb