random thoughts on genderswitch

[pensnest]

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?

Comments

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Pfuh, that's that whole nonsense about hot guy size =/= hot girl size. I think it's quite hard to avoid, although I've seen some really good genderswitch stories that addressed it.

Nick would so bust out of his shirt buttons *goes woozy*

[pensnest]

He would be quite a strapping wench, wouldn't he! Oh yes.

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.