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Can Kang Haesol and Yeonwoo from Yeonwoo's Innocence be added under Webcomics?

Can someone explain to me why a Dark Feminine woman and a Noble Male qualify for this trope, instead of Brooding Girl, Gentle Boy? It just seems odd to say that a guy who's masculine (Noble) and a girl who's feminine (Dark) can be seen as feminine and masculine, respectively.

What was I saying again?

Is Kim Possible really a good example of this? I feel like Kim is really feminine even though she's a superheroine. The picture is fine, but I feel like the show's own example in this page is kind of a reach.

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Bad Snowclone, started by RedLunchBox on Jul 24th 2011 at 7:03:45 AM

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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Ambiguous Name, started by Ruise on May 26th 2020 at 4:57:59 AM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

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Edited by GloryAO9820 Just a girl who collect some tropes here to use write something to my stories

I was going to just add this, but saw that there was an earlier version that'd been deleted, so I figured I'd ask first: should Keith and Natani, the Beta Couple of TwoKinds, be included on this page?

Natani is physically female, but mentally s/he's extremely gender-fluid and becomes more so as the comics progress, notably going from a "self-loathing man trapped in a woman's body" in the earliest comics to "self-admittedly fluid between male and female" from essentially the 930s onward.

A theoretical entry for this page might look something like this:

• In TwoKinds, Beta Couple Natani and Keith sit in a grey area between this trope and the Yaoi Guys version of Sensitive Guy and Manly Man. Keith is small, thoughtful, patient, well-educated, in touch with his feelings and prone to breaking into tears when he gets overwhelmed, sexually shy and polite. Natani is almost a foot taller, brash, aggressive, blunt-spoken, sarcastic, uneducated to the point of only speaking one language and so relying on Keith to translate, more emotionally closed off, and much more sexually aggressive than Keith is. However, Natani is so masculine in part due to being mentally gender-fluid, with a Character Development arc that actually involves going from "self-hating man in a woman's body" to "both and neither", hence the overtones of the relationship being homosexual despite their physical genders.
  • The comic's author has actually teased this trope by doing several non-canon art-pieces depicting Keith in female clothing, contrasting Natani's usual masculine garb. The kicker is one titled "The Daily Life of the Kaisers", in which Keith and Natani are depicted as 1950s-esque husband and wife — with Keith as the wife and Natani as the husband.

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• Firefly: Hoban "Wash" Washburne is a geeky, Non-Action Guy who is usually acting as the moral compass if Kaylee isn't around. His wife Zoe? Yeah. Stoic, gunslinging Action Girl, ex-soldier, and the ship's second in command. Wash fully admits his wife could kill him with her pinky if she were so inclined.

Has been readded when I took it away because Wash is boyish, not feminine.

I suppose a Camp Straight guy with a Lad-ette girlfriend might or might not qualify.

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From the list near the end of the description:

"The guy or girl do not have to weaker or stronger than the other to not fall under this."

I think this is really unclear — I'm not even sure what it's trying to say. Any ideas for a tweak to make it clearer?

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I deleted this wick:

• In Jane Eyre, the title character has more moral strength and self-worth than Mr. Rochester. His feminine side comes out in the course of the relationship.

Mr Rochester is very masculine and a true Byronic Hero. He's not feminine in the least. Unless somebody provides evidence from the novel and proves me wrong, I say this couple is not an example of this trope.

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Can somebody please explain how Ovid's Hermaphroditus (a normal boy bathing in a pool) and Salmacis (a horny nymph) are this trope? Them fusing together into a single hermaphroditic Biological Mash Up is not this trope.

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