Bringing the after-Christmas cheer

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THE UNPOPULAR [RP] OPINION MEMEYou ever feel like you're the only one? Maybe you're not. You can always commiserate with someone else

Comments

[anonymous]

"Genderbent" characters will never stop being annoying and vaguely sexist.

[anonymous]

I've seen them handled well so...

your opinion is unpopular because it's wrong.

Links or it didn't happen.

[anonymous]

I completely disagree. I've seen them so utterly fucked and so utterly wrong.

Re: Links or it didn't happen.

[anonymous]

I've seen that too. But I've seen normal characters played fucked up and wrong, so...

Re: Links or it didn't happen.

[spiffynamehere]

Pssst.

Actually, argument-wise, you need to back up your assertion first. You haven't established that they're utterly fucked or wrong yet. :|a

Re: Links or it didn't happen.

[anonymous]

Probably because it's self-evident.

Re: Links or it didn't happen.

[spiffynamehere]

Lolno.

[anonymous]

But that can be said of any character.

[anonymous]

They would if they were done well, which has happened before. They seem pointless to me, though.

[anonymous]

I don't know about sexist, but they sort of squick me out. Especially if they're not the "always been a girl/guy" type and have been transformed into the other sex and just seem to be sort of OK with that.

[spiffynamehere]

Examples?

OP

[anonymous]

I thought this was an unpopular opinions meme, not a "defend my position" meme

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[anonymous]

To be fair of your last point: gender roles are not universal to all canons so picking a similar character from a similar setting can still be an inaccurate comparison to how the genderbent character would turn out. And for some people the goal is less "get a similar personality" and more "see what kind of differences and similarities crop up from the original". It's a comparative thing, like any other "what if x happened instead" AU.

But it can be handled very poorly and squicky and it's not everybody's thing, so if you don't like it you don't like it. o7

[anonymous]

Everyone you play.

[spiffynamehere]

O rly.

[anonymous]

Genderbent characters can be played right, but rarely are. Too many of them are made so they can ship with a certain canon character because the mun of the other character is anti-het or anti-slash.