random thoughts on genderswitch
So, I'm just wondering, how is it that so many people who write boy-turns-into-girl fics seem to think that a boy's jeans will just slide right off a girl's hips? Because, no!
I just read a (really cool) AJ-as-girl story, in which girl!AJ had to have a belt to hold up his jeans. AJ. Who practically *has* no hips. Now, if she'd been unable to pull them up over her newly-feminine hips, that would have made sense. No doubt a female version of AJ Maclean would be small and wiry and not endowed with lush curves like, say, a female Nick would be (cor!), but there are certain fundamentals, if you'll excuse my saying so, of feminine anatomy, and one is that the hips *exist*.
So, peeps. What's with the hipless wonders?
I just read a (really cool) AJ-as-girl story, in which girl!AJ had to have a belt to hold up his jeans. AJ. Who practically *has* no hips. Now, if she'd been unable to pull them up over her newly-feminine hips, that would have made sense. No doubt a female version of AJ Maclean would be small and wiry and not endowed with lush curves like, say, a female Nick would be (cor!), but there are certain fundamentals, if you'll excuse my saying so, of feminine anatomy, and one is that the hips *exist*.
So, peeps. What's with the hipless wonders?
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Unless, I guess, he lost a lot of height, too, and got proportionately tinier all over. At which point, he'd be about four foot six. Or...are you sure he didn't turn into a fairy? Were there maybe some gossamer wings mentioned? :-)
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But yeah. If a man's shirt fits me, his jeans sure as hell won't.
(A female Nick would be pretty hot...)
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What we need are measurements! That'd stop this. Also, it would make it clear whether or not Lance and JC could share pants. (I vote NO!)
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But I'll volunteer to take the measurements! :D
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I'll definitely need an assistant.
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when he's not pleased to see someonemost of the time. If he wore Lance's, well.*appreciates your icon*
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I have to use this opportunity to use my new icon.
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*icon much appreciated*
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Nick would so bust out of his shirt buttons *goes woozy*
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Yep, sometimes the stories do address the matter - oddly, the very next one I looked at after the AJ one which brought this back to my attention had girl!Kevin unable to fit into her/his trousers.
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And if any part of me exists, it's the hips. :D
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*still puzzled*
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And toss a howie there now that you are at it. :D
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It's hot (at least to me it is) to see boys dressed as girls. Don't ask me why it just works for me.
So maybe in an attempt of not loosing that man side of the characters we tend to say that the now girl is hipless or something like that.
Of course it gets worse with AJ, who is skinny as hell and after all there are women who have no hips. Those kind of women that you stare at them from the back and you swear they are men and when they turn around no! they are women.
I don't know if this makes sense or not...
But I do love gender benders. Those are my favorite kind of fics I must admit.
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I think it makes sense to translate body type across gender in a recognisable way—so that, say, Chris ends up curved and cuddly, JC becomes slender and model-shaped, etc. I do see the appeal of having the characters still quite boyish, but for me, it works better if they're more definitely women.
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Plus, I know I'd never fit in JC's pants, having seen a pair! So skinny, omg.
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I spose if we have girl!Lance she might be okay... ;->
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To be honest, genderbendy fics are the one genre I really can't bring myself to read.