Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: New Title, started by amitraday on Nov 5th 2010 at 4:53:12 AM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI might just be overly sensitive regarding the topic, but do trans men (such as Brandon Teena) really count for this trope?
Hide / Show RepliesNo, they don't. A Sweet Polly Oliver has to be pretending to be male — they can't be actually male.
The entry for Margaret Ann Bulkley, aka James Barry, mentions that, she "performed one of the first successful Caesarians in history." Given that caesareans were named after Julius Caesar, who was delivered that way, and MacBeth referred to someone being "untimely ripped" (and therefore not born of woman, and this referred to a caesarean. does the term "successful" mean that the mother survives the process?
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Crossdressing tropes in general, started by Twilightdusk on Jun 4th 2010 at 12:23:38 AM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman