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Well then you're getting what you want to hear and not what's being said.

The premise of genderswap is itself based on a completely shallow view of sex and gender. If you're not able to think about how the premise itself is flawed and why, then you're sure as hell not doing anything better with it than every other shit rule 63 character out there.

You're not doing something deep and meaningful. You're applying a load of gender stereotypes and making a version of a character who's gender and sex are both just badly pasted on. Don't expect to have your ass patted for your profound and insightful exploration of gender when you're doing shit like that.

No, you're not listening. Dude, not every genderswap is just pasted on. Some of us really like going into depth about how that character would have changed.

What I'm telling you is that to anyone who's not you, your "depth" is a steaming load of donkey dung.

It's not deep, because your understanding of gender and sex clearly aren't deep.

And you know how I know that?

Because you can't even see how using a male character's storyline as a the predetermined, prophetic, and self fulfilling outcome for the life of a female character is itself completely shallow and fucked up as a premise.

You make a rule 63 Tony, for example. How do you know she'll become Iron Woman? Because that's what her male counterpart becomes. How do you know she'll design a suit of armor? Because that's what her male counterpart did. Whatever "clever" plot twists you use to justify it, the outcome is predetermined by the storyline of the male canon character. None of the "changes" between the versions actually amount to any real difference. They're meaningless quirks. That's why it's pasted on.

In order to make a female version of a canon male character, his storyline will always necessarily be determinate of hers at the most fundamental and basic level, because it has to be if she's going to turn out as the female version of what he is! The male version is, in effect, the female version's destiny. She can never be different because in the end she has to BECOME what he becomes.

That's not "deep." It can't be deep because the fundamental premise is completely fucked up. If you're doing rule 63s you can never change that. All you can do is stick your fingers in your ears and go "lalalalala Look how deep and meaningful it is that I apply a bunch of gender stereotypes to characters! Aren't I edgy and great!"

That is one of the worst arguments I have ever seen. It makes literally no sense.

Like most die-hard comic fans, you have no idea what makes a personality. "Making an armor" and "creating a company" are not giant personality determinators, anon.

They are part of what the character does, but what actually matters for a rp is why she does it, how she does it, and how she interacts with others before, during, and after.

And that can be changed either tremendously or more subtly by a genderswap.

But keep confusing some facts of a character's history with personality, lol.

The point.

Your head.

Congrats, I guess.

if you don't think a character's personality is related to their history you must be a pretty shitty player whether you're playing genderswaps or not

don't need to be a comics fan to see that, you just need to not be clueless

What is this bullshit? You sound like the kind of person who thinks we can't reclaim misogynist slurs for our own use.

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