Fascinating thoughts that rang very true; thanks for sharing!
There are a lot of aspects of John's personality that strike me as stereotypically female [...] without requiring some sort of justification for doing so
Spot-on.
I honestly believe John is the product of a bunch of male geeks getting in a room and trying to envision the perfect man and, being heterosexual, instead envisioning the perfect woman and then giving her a cock. I'd call it subversive if I weren't so sure the writers were doing it completely on accident.
Hah. I love that -- and yes, you may very well be onto something there...
Really like your conclusion that a genderswitched John would come to very painful, very personal conclusions about the world he lives in; a few of the stories I collected in my post actually touch upon this issue, if none of them in -depth, of course -- they aren't really drama pieces.
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Date: 2005-11-02 12:59 am (UTC)Spot-on.
Hah. I love that -- and yes, you may very well be onto something there...
Really like your conclusion that a genderswitched John would come to very painful, very personal conclusions about the world he lives in; a few of the stories I collected in my post actually touch upon this issue, if none of them in -depth, of course -- they aren't really drama pieces.
Can't wait for more. & :-)