Comments on: Gender Swap: December 24-29, 2001

By: Waffle

Waffle — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 00:19:47 +0000

It’s interesting. This storyline reads a bit differently as a trans woman than it did before I figured myself out. Not in a bad way – I have no difficulty with Dave here being, effectively, a trans guy. But like… apparently the semi-common side-effects of feminizing hormone therapy actually do include: experiencing emotions more acutely; crying more easily; and being more attracted to guys. So now I get to play the game of “is this *just* a genderbend trope, or is it also part of who Dave is on estrogen?”

By: Wizard

Wizard — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:39:12 +0000

Referencing Mick Foley on Christmas seems only appropriate.

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:29:30 +0000

I woulda totally reacted the same as the gamers back in my gaming days. Nowadays I’m just gamy.

By: Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson)

Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:29:29 +0000

A very angry, goose-stepping, smouldering, street-hobbit…

By: David Harmon (mental_mouse)

David Harmon (mental_mouse) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:29:28 +0000

It occurs to me that Dave is not just comically short but worryingly short.

Making it that much harder to squat below its line of vision.... :) Remember that not only has Dave gotten shorter, but Helen is now taller. And Dave still slumps, while Helen doesn't. Even so... that first panel makes femDave look like a hobbit!

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:29:27 +0000

Saturday:

Fortunately, this episode and all of next week is satisfyingly subverted later, when Dave tries in vain to boast about having a girlfriend. The world moves on!

It occurs to me that Dave is not just comically short but worryingly short. ...Could it be that the necessary consequence of male-to-female transformation is Turner syndrome?! (Now that would be a deconstructed trope.)

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:29:26 +0000

Nice song. Kinda fits.

By: Laura Rickelman (lazy)

Laura Rickelman (lazy) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:29:25 +0000

“Scuttle away with a crablike gait” is a “disrupt the office with terrible guffaws” kind of line.

By: Incog Neato (ghede)

Incog Neato (ghede) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:29:24 +0000

I find that squatting and scuttling away also works with nearly everybody.

Usually they are too speechless to try and stop me.

By: Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson)

Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:29:23 +0000

Hey, I just realized Dave's having a What Women Want moment, largely by being the same size as Mel Gibson. (I friend of mine who is an American Revolution re-enactor was not selected as an extra for The Patriot. He, like a number of others, was too much taller than Gibson.)