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fandomsecrets2012-06-02 03:47 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-06-02 03:47 pm
[ SECRET POST #1978 ]
⌈ Secret Post #1978 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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She had us create a cast of characters. Backstories, personality traits, motivations, everything. She didn't tell us why she was doing this. Then, when we were done, she had us switch all of their genders. Those characters whose perception of them drastically changed after the swap were gender stereotypes. Those that didn't were closer to a human universal.
What we noticed was that our perceptions of those characters that were the most realistic, nuanced, and well-developed changed the least. Those that were the shallowest and most one-dimensional changed the most. Gender-swapping a pampered beauty queen to a spoiled male supermodel? Sure, that's different, right? But what about a beauty queen with a drug addicted sister who wants use her money and fame to speak out against addiction, but whose terrible secret - one she can't reveal lest she lose her crown - is that she used to be an addict herself? And has to fight the temptation to relapse daily, which gets harder and harder as she struggles to adapt to her new-found fame and the demands of her schedule? The male model whose career would be on the line suddenly doesn't seem so different. One can blather on about "norms" and "averages" and "biology" endlessly, but at the end of the day, there are women killers-for-hire and male homemakers. A male-/female-anything is "realistic". They exist. It's not those one-note traits, though, that make us human.