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genderswap

noun

Etymology

From gender + swap.

  1. inherited from swāpan
  2. inherited from *swappian✻
  3. inherited from swappen — “to swap”
  4. compounded as genderswap — “gender + swap”

Definitions

  1. An instance of changing a fictional character's biological sex or gender identity from…

    An instance of changing a fictional character's biological sex or gender identity from the canonical norm.

    • The problem is exactly the one you have stated: many people would not be comfortable with a sudden genderswap in the Doctor, when the possibility has not even been hinted at in the past.
    • But I liked the fact that they *were* friends and not lovers, as *the* most obvious thing to do with a genderswap of either Kirk or Spock is promptly pair them off together.
    • More sober challenges to the representation of gender in mainstream media (and of course, Supernatural specifically) occur in genderswap stories where the sudden change of anatomy is one that throws the character's world into chaos.

  2. To change a fictional character's biological sex or gender identity from its canonical…

    To change a fictional character's biological sex or gender identity from its canonical norm.

    • And while they've kept the original series character's *names*, they've genderswapped some of them, and added a new twist by having Cylons characters who look and think they're human.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for genderswap. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA