Attractive Bent Gender: Difference between revisions

== [[Literature]] ==

* [[Mary Russell]] is occasionally called upon to dress as a man (given her spouse's occupation, quite frequently) and is still rather [[Bishonen]] doing so. As can be understood. And in a situation that might otherwise have been [[Sweet on Polly Oliver]], this trope holds truer—during ''O, Jerusalem'', when she's dressed as a teenage boy, her would-be rapists are in no way dissuaded by her revealing her gender.

* In Naomi Novik's short story ''The Wreck of the Amphidragora'', {{spoiler|Lady Araminta}} looks much the same as a man as she did as a woman, which is still fairly attractive. {{spoiler|Her captor finds her attractive enough that he would have tried to seduce "Lord Aramin" if Araminta hadn't solicited him first.}}

* [[Older Than Print]]: The ''[[Arabian Nights]]'' story "Prince Camaralzaman and Princess Badoura" tells of a Prince and Princess whose beauty so captivates a pair of djinn that they argue over which is the most beautiful mortal alive. Their attempt to settle the question leads to the Prince and Princess falling in love. It becomes a plot point that the two are almost identical, to the point where the Princess can dress up as the Prince, fool a cohort of her father's guards who are escorting them, and then fool a King and his daughter. Enough that the King proposes marriage and the daughter accepts.