Quote: WengFook wrote:
Y'know I think this is what appeals to me about gender bent stories. Its not so much the overcoming of difficulties of being a girl or anything like
that, because in my opinion it really should not be that big a deal aside a total paradigm shift in perception, but more about being something different than
what you are normally. Something.... COOL.
Take any self insert into a female character from an anime of some power level. you'd usually luck out and be attractive or physically fit with little to
no disabilities or have COOL powers. Sometimes a mix of all three IS the basic package in anime. :O
Eh. It sounds cool, until you think about it. Most actual transsexuals find the versions present in anime to be frankly insulting. This is because in the real
world being in a body that has the wrong sexual equipment is actually massively damaging to your psyche. Actual
transsexuals experience much higher incidences of clinical depression, anxiety disorders and all sorts of nastiness that can be overwhelmingly related to the
fact that their physical gender does not match up with their mental gender and this causes tension.
It makes for entertaining joking around for those of use without serious gender identity disorders, but all the people with those disorders I know wouldn't
wish being trapped in the wrong gender on their worst enemy. Even if it came with funky super powers.
However, that's far too serious a topic for this thread. Someone made a comment, I made a (poorly executed) joke. Let's move on.
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