Meaning of gender-swapping | Babel Free

Examples

“About a month ago, when Lauryn was starting to feel a bit burned out on the heterosexual internet dating scene, she had started toying with the idea of pretending to be a man online. There was hardly anything new about gender-swapping on the interent, but having a cyber-penis was a revolutionary discovery to Lauryn.”

“This has been a single case study of one man's gender-bending experiences online but it demonstrates the potential for further research into the impact of gender-swapping experiences on identity and the offline self. It also questions previous conclusions in this area that gender-swapping does not impact significantly on the online self and that such experiences do not lead us to learn anything about gender (see e.g., Lewis 2004).”

“Throughout the comedies, all manner of confusion and gender-swapping and mistaken identity is resolved with Mozartian harmony and multiple weddings.”

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