#Gender role reversal

[madeleineengland]

Men criticize Barbie (2023) because Barbie is an astronaut, a lawyer, a president, and a million other things, but Ken is the stay-at-home spouse rather than her and he's happy to be just Barbie's malewife, he would do anything for her and he is totally fine with that, and somehow these men just want the roles reversed.

[disconinjacircus]

I’m glad the fandom as a whole is discussing how our culinary king Senshi “Only Pans” of Izganda is out here serving more than meals

[heterorealism]

[scratchtovoid]

Daemon’s storyline is about gender. It’s about the cycle of violence men continue and how women and children pay the price of that violence.

It’s Daemon coming to terms with the fact the symbols of masculinity he upholds hurts everyone around him and himself.

He is a distant father because men are allowed to be.

He hurts Rhaenyra because he knows she will forgive him.

He killed a child in response to another child being killed.

Over and over these cycle repeat. The expectations he has for himself fit within the expectations of the men of the realm.

It’s not other men who condemn him, it’s women.

Women who are begging him to see their perspective, their pain, what they are facing in the patriarchy that he doesn’t see with his own eyes.

And it’s waking him up!

The more aware he becomes, the more Alys asks him to look, the more these ghosts of the women in his life force him to understand their side, the more Daemon can’t deny his hand in this system.

And it’s hurt him too and is still hurting him.

It’s cut him off from his own emotions, his own sense of self.

It’s the same system that has denied him the ability to accept the love he is being given and give love in return because those are not emotions made for men.

And it hurt him because Daemon craves that love! And specifically he has been denied that love from a man, from his brother!

Daemon didn’t know his mother. He doesn’t remember that first experience of motherly love. And so he only had his father and brother to give him that experience and they could not.

Men in this society can’t express that love to each other. Not in the way Daemon needed. And it created a want in Daemon, a need he was desperate to fill.

But his obsession with getting that kind of validation and love from his brother blocked him off from everyone else in his life who wanted to love him! And it blocks him off from loving them.

He can’t even see the women in his life as individuals at this point. But that’s what this storyline is driving him towards. To see his wife and daughters as people who care about him. They aren’t his enemy. They aren’t an extension of himself, there to be at his side as he achieves his goals.

They need his support too! They need his love too. Just as he was denied validation, now he does the same, walking past Baela without a second look. Ignoring Rhaena. Refusing to see Rhaenyra as her own person separate from her father.

But he’s getting there! I think this storyline is specifically setting up Daemon to have different, healthier relationships with his daughters and his wife.

To be a consort and a father and understand that is not an unworthy thing. He doesn’t have to be “the king” to get the kind of validation he craves, he can get that from his own family if he is willing to let them in.

And that requires him to be supportive of them! It requires him to let go of his own pride!

A few days ago I posted a video on tiktok about Daemon and Rhaenyra’s relationship to gender and how it effects their relationship : here

And I think there’s even more layers to unpack with this storyline and how it relates to gender and expectations that men and women have in Westeros. What is expected of them, what isn’t expected of them.

And Daemon is the perfect character to explore all of this with!

[zelinkstuff]

[bellegee2]

Love time to play as a bride 🤍🤍🤍

[venustocaligo]

Princess Link by 미빅 (@mivic_art)

A Hero of Hyrule can wear whatever they want.

[kimrinzleycreations]

What if the world followed the whims of a bunch of dragon-queens? And they all flipped the gender roles and appearances so that all men are princesses and all women are princes?

Sounds pretty hawt if you ask me.

[rolereversalmedia]

Monster Under the Bed | MV | Gifs 2

[boys-against-matriarchy]

[girlbruh]

artist

[genrerolereversal]

The Warrior's Husband (1933)

[zelinkstuff]

[bellegee2]

I had a bunch of new folks follow me so I'd like to share a picture for you. Thank you for your interest in me 😘💋

[alephkeller]

Hey everyone! I've been working on a new story, "Forbearance"!

If you like big/dommy anthro girl romance (specifically a shark and a hyena) with a human dude, this might be your story! That said, please read the bottom of this post and the tags on the Ao3 for an important content warning.

I wanted to try writing something different as a change of pace from the daxy, sci-fi stuff. This is actually a highschool drama, of all things (though the characters are +18 and the themes are mature).

It began conceptually as a greentext where a hyena girl and a shark girl vie for the love of the second-person (male) protagonist (so reversed gender roles), but it quickly became a romance AND a more serious drama. It might have begun as a greentext, but honestly it's just strangely-indented prose. By chapter 5, I made the switch to prose completely and dropped the weird format. At some point, I will go back and update the formatting for the whole story.

I've written this story to ultimately be an uplifting romance, but it deals with really heavy subjects and has it's dark moments. Please read all the tags on the Ao3 page before reading so you aren't exposed to triggering content <3

CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNING: There is attempted rape and sexual assault in this story, with the protagonist as the victim. There is also drug use and references to/discussion of addiction. I stress again to please read all the tags on the Ao3 page before reading. Reader discretion is advised.