Persecution Flip: Difference between revisions

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When most writers want to write about discrimination and oppression, they stick to real-world examples—after all, there are plenty of those. Some writers, however, wonder: "What if it were the other way round?" What if Africans had enslaved Europeans? What if India had colonized England? What if [[Lady Land|women had all the power and men had to stay in the kitchen]]? And so on and so forth. There may be a semi-plausible [[Alternate History]] explanation for the switch, but just as often it simply is that way.

 

 

Compare [[Just the Introduction to The Opposites]].

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== Anime and Manga ==

* In [[Yuu Watase]]'s short manga story "Perfect Lovers," a heterosexual couple is transported into an alternate dimension where homosexuality is normal and heterosexual relationships are illegal.

* In ''[[Jyu-Oh-Sei]]'', the [[Penal Colony]] planet of Chimera is controlled by four "Rings" (Night, Ochre, Sun, and Blanc) which are primarily divided by skin color. When Thor and Rai are sent there, the Blanc Ring is least powerful of the four, and thus the formerly pampered twins (who are about as white as one can possibly be without having Albinism) find themselves at the bottom of the social ladder.

** Furthermore, since men greatly outnumber women, women have free pick of mates and are regarded as more valuable. Their higher social status is somewhat theoretical though, since the series plays this out with some [[Unfortunate Implications]].

 

== Comic Books ==

** On still another episode, a child-alien persecutes the adults on the ship for imposing rules on children.

** In another episode, Worf travels to an alternate universe where the Bajorans are enemies of the Federation and they overpowered the Cardassians.

* In one episode of ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', the crew visit a parallel universe where women are the dominant gender. Their entire history is gender-flipped, so Hamlet was written by Wilma Shakespeare, Nellie Armstrong was the first person on the moon, and men organised equal rights marches and burned their jockstraps in the '60s. Oh, and [[Mister Seahorse|it's the men who get pregnant]].

* Sexism and Gender Stereotypes are played with in the weird little German-UK SF series from the 1970's - Star Maidens. In which, two men escape from the planet Medusa which is ruled by women and where men are badly mistreated and head for Earth because one of the men has heard it's ruled by men. They are pursued by a couple of their female mistresses. Let's just say it wasn't subtle and leave it at that.

 

== Music ==

 

 

== Others ==

* The Disability Rights Commission, once a British-Based Disability rights organization now part of Equality and Human Rights Commission, released a two-part short films known as "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZfOVNwjFU0 The] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9a2ZqLhuAw Talk]". it shows a man finding himself in a location where the disabled are the majority and he's looked down upon for being able-bodied.

 

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