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Fighteer
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(Time Abyss)
2017-03-09 11:24:21
This is a very broad question, one which might be addressed more fully in the Trope Talk forum. There seems to be no reason why the Pygmalion plot could not be gender-flipped; it's just a matter of a work choosing to present it as such.
Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

I was asking myself what a gender-swapped Eliza Doolittle would look like. Is there a trope reversal where an experienced woman moulds a man and then falls in love with her creation? There's the original "Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed" and beyond that, I didn't find much.
I'm curious what you trope experts think of this. Is this because in the many romcoms where a man tries to woo a woman and is rejected, but then betters himself and wins her, the man has more agency than Eliza Doolittles? Is the gender-swapped version of the Pygmalion trope common enough but it's just watered-down weaksauce when it happens? Are there significant and serious productions (perhaps as a comedy, but not as a parody) with the man being largely transfomed by the woman?