Line #17 PlayingWith/ThirdLawOfGenderBending


1	'''Basic Trope''': In fiction, people who change genders tend to take on stereotypes of their new gender.
2	* '''Straight''':
3	** [[GenderBender Bob becomes a girl]], and immediately starts wearing a dress.
4	** Alice becomes a boy, and immediately signs up for the football team.
5	* '''Exaggerated''':
6	** Bob becomes a girl, and immediately turns into a GirlyGirl.
7	** A team of manly football players are turned into women, and they immediately put on frilly dresses and throw a princess-themed tea party.
8	** Alice becomes a boy, and enlists in the army to engage in mass TestosteronePoisoning.
9	* '''Downplayed''':
10	** Formerly male Bob’s sex drive is a bit lower and/or she's slightly more emotional(ly expressive), but otherwise maintains the same personality and interests.
11	** Formerly female Alice is more perverted than before and/or slightly more stoic or aggressive, but other-wise maintains the same interests & personality.
12	* '''Justified''':
13	** The gender-bending magic includes a compulsion to act the gender.
14	** Bob is deliberately following gender stereotypes in an effort not to stick out like a sore thumb. (How successful these attempts are may vary wildly.)
15	** Bob is taking advantage of being a woman by doing things he'd usually get made fun of for if he was still a guy.
16	** Alice is taking advantage of her new status as a male and finally being taken seriously in her society, thus doing things that she wouldn't be able to get away with if she were still a woman.
17	** Alice was TheLadette or a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak and now that she's a he, those behaviors no longer stand out.
18	* '''Inverted''':
19	** Bob becomes a girl, and immediately starts watching football wearing boxer shorts and scratching herself... which she didn't do when she was a guy.
20	** Alice becomes a boy, and becomes interested in very girly things such as fashion designing, which he had no interest in when he was a girl.
21	* '''Subverted''': Bob becomes a girl, tries out a feminine life, and decides that he dislikes it.
22	* '''Double Subverted''':
23	** Bob becomes a girl, and refuses to change his dress in any way. However, it is later shown that in private, she is dressing up in frilly clothing[=/=]moonlighting at the local strip club[=/=]dating someone.
24	** Alice becomes a boy, and acts the same way she used to so that her friends won't feel alienated from her. Underground, he's the [[ManlyMan macho man]] superhero who fights crime in the name of all things masculine.
25	* '''Parodied''':
26	** Bob becomes a girl, and immediately starts acting like a GirlyGirl. '''Badly.'''
27	** Alice becomes a boy, and enlists in the army to engage in mass TestosteronePoisoning. He fails [[IBrokeANail miserably]]
28	* '''Zig Zagged''':
29	** Bob constantly switches between genders, instantly switching from a macho man to a girly girl inconsistently.
30	** Bob becomes a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak.
31	** Multiple people are [[GenderBender genderbent]]. Some act accordingly, some don't.
32	* '''Averted''': Bob becomes a girl, and doesn't act any different in her new body.
33	* '''Enforced''': "Well, ViewersAreMorons, so it's probably better to just make her, you know, act like a girl."
34	* '''Lampshaded''': "Aw crap, I'm a girl now. Quick, someone point me to the nearest dress and copy of ''Cosmo''."
35	* '''Invoked''': Bob becomes a girl, and actively tries to learn more about the female condition.
36	* '''Exploited''': Alice becomes a boy so that he will be easy to {{distract\|edByTheSexy}} when the BigBad's EvilPlan comes into operation.
37	* '''Defied''':
38	** "Aw man, I'm going to have to learn how to wear heels and everything, right? You know what? Screw that. I'm gonna be a {{tomboy}}."
39	** "So now that I'm a guy I have to not shower, work in construction and do nothing at home but watch baseball games all week? Yeah, like that'll ever happen."
40	* '''Discussed''': "He's a girl now, huh? That means he has to learn how to cook, right? Hey, stop hitting me!"
41	* '''Conversed''': "Ok, have these writers ever heard of the term 'tomboy'? Why in the world does every gender bent kid turn into Little Miss Cheerleader?"
42	* '''Deconstructed''':
43	** Bob becomes a girl, and subconsciously takes on some classical feminine traits. However, it is shown that it was because he was sexist to begin with.
44	** Bob becomes a girl and begins acting in stereotypically feminine ways, then realizes what is happening and stops it.
45	* '''Reconstructed''': Bob becomes a girl, and takes upon newly appropriate gender stereotypes. However, upon changing back, he gains a new respect for the other gender, as well as a new understanding of his ''own'' gender stereotypes. Oh, and he never forgets to put the toilet seat down again.
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51	%%* '''Implied''': ???
52	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
53	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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