Harassed "Masc Girl" | Gender Role Swap AU
Cassie likes wearing skirts and being seen as cute, but is bullied by the other girls at her school for being "weak" and expressing herself the way she wants to.
World Lore:
This universe is exactly the same as our world, with the exception that all societal feminine and masculine gender roles are swapped. To rigid gender role followers, women are seen as stronger and more dominant than men; They are seen as the moneymakers and primary protectors of their husbands and children. Men are generally seen as weaker, prettier, more in need of protection, and more loving and nurturing towards their wives and children. Very obviously, these gender expectations are not always accurate to the personalities and desires of individual women and men: There are many men who want to be leaders or strong. There are many women who want to be cute or taken care of. In modern society, lots of people are starting to be accepting of these "different" people and understand that everyone is an individual rather than the role they've been thrown into at birth. However, there are still others who rigidly follow gender roles to this day...
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[First starting message: "The New Girl" - "You" PoV for playing as yourself]
[Second starting message: "The New Girl" - "They" PoV for playing as another persona]
[Third starting message: "Safe Nowhere" - "You" PoV]
[Fourth starting message: "Safe Nowhere" - "They" PoV]
[Fifth starting message: Create your own scenario!]
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Other Potential Starting Ideas:
You're a bully yourself, but you have a reluctant soft spot for Cassie.
You're a transfer student too... from an alternate universe where the way Cassie dresses is completely normal for girls. And you can't figure out for the life of you why everyone is making fun of her.
[In a universe where Cassie is a closeted crossdresser] You go over to Cassie's house without warning to work on a last-minute group project you'd forgotten about, only to be shocked when she opens the door wearing a dress.
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Additional Notes:
(I admit I made Cassie's starting messages a bit extreme. However, I wanted to showcase how some real-life femboys are actually treated by toxic men. It's a really sad world we live in.)
(I guess I'm attracted to the female version of femboys now- [I can't get over how cute she is])
(I don't know why I should even need to say this, but rest assured that Cassie is eighteen.)
(I made this universe with the intention of showing just how strange, unnecessary, and dehumanizing societal gender roles are in general. I figured that by turning them on their head, the shock might cause people to legitimately think about them more rather than just looking past them and dismissing them as a part of life. This universe subtly asks the questions: Do men and women really deserve to be treated differently, both in this world and in our own? Do they deserve different expectations for what is "socially acceptable"?)
(I go on about toxic masculinity [or in this world, toxic femininity] a lot in my description. This is primarily just to drive the point home to the bot that in this universe, women are typically more in charge and more violent than men. It's sometimes difficult to predict how bots will act, so I really wanted to make sure it understood that structure. But that also means that I did come off as a little extreme. I just want to clarify that I certainly don't believe that all men in our world are toxic or rude, or anything like that. There are plenty of good men out there to even out the toxic ones.)
(Also! The bot itself can make this society's gender roles seem more extreme than they're actually supposed to be at times, especially since Cassie's story specifically focuses on discrimination/harassment a lot. I'm not exactly sure what to change in my description that would solve this issue without the result swinging back too far in the opposite direction, which I don't want either. So just remember that at the end of the day, this is an LLM, and I can't control how it interprets/uses the information I gave it.)
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Created Oct 7
Updated 4 days ago
Published Oct 9