Gender-Restricted Ability/Playing With
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Basic Trope: You can only use a particular skill if you are a particular gender.
- Straight: Alice can cast healing magic. Bob can't.
- Exaggerated: Alice can cast ALL forms of magic. Bob can't even learn one.
- Downplayed: Alice can cast healing magic. Bob can't, so he learn medical treatment instead.
- Both can use magic, but only women can use healing ones.
- Justified:
- Inverted:
- Subverted: Bob managed to learn healing magic
- Double Subverted: .....but he's called gay for it.
- Parodied: Alice can cast spells. Bob can't. Said spells actually do more harm than good.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Zig Zagged:
- Averted: Both can use magic, but each gender will learn a different set of spells.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded:
- Invoked: A witch casts a spell such that men cannot learn them.
- Exploited:
- Defied: A witch fixed the magic system so that men can learn them as well.
- Discussed:
- Conversed: "Oh, hey, the setting is constructed so nobody can do everything."
- Played For Laughs: Alice finds herself in a Sweet Polly Oliver situation. For some inadequately-explained reason, "Alex" cannot cast healing spells.
- Played For Drama:
- Plotted A Perfectly Good Waste:
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