Genderswap Pride and Prejudice

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So, I really want to do a Pride and Prejudice fic wherein all the Bennet girls are boys, everyone else is the gender they are in the book, and both Mr. Darcy and Mr. Lizzy (

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Well, yes. The reason the Bechdel test is important is the simple fact that there are less women in stories than men, and for the women there are, the plots are male-centric.

I felt it was inaccurate to say fandom in general because femslash, gen, and het are large parts of fandom. There's plenty of het that doesn't pass the Bechdel test, but I believe the generalization we want to make is about male slash fandom in this instance.

Turning just Lizzy male almost bothers me more than turning all the Bennet progeny male, because of the way Jane's, Mary's, Kitty's, and Lydia's stories are all background. It seems to say the only important story is that of the son, and the others are unimportant by nature of being women's stories. If all the Bennets are men, then the other stories aren't as important merely because they are not Lizzy's story. And just Lizzy as a man still would not pass the Bechdel test in any case.

But that's just my feeling about it. I definitely agree with the too many dicks reaction, but leaving pussy in the story just for the sake of there being pussy seems to defeat the point.