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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has Grace's Birthday Party arc, part-masquerade where the various characters deliberately chose stereotypical outfits for each other in keeping with the 'walk a mile in my shoes' theme of the occasion.
** Susan starts acting macho and aggressive immediately after becoming male. It's transient, however: losing an arm-wrestling contest with the still-female Nanase is enough to snap her out of it. Sarah [
*** Tedd does note that the first time gender bending their new genders thoughts are exaggerated, which played a part in everyone's storyline during the event, but the only one whose gender bending mental state was a major plot point was Susan, as it helped her recognize her hangups with men.
** Later, when Eliot develops the power to morph his clothes and appearance along with his gender his female forms tend to end up wearing girly outfits because he apparently just can't help visualizing them that way.
** A better example is Tedd; in fact, Grace has less dresses and skirts in her wardrobe than he does despite most of her first clothes being selected by [[Ordinary High School Student]] Sarah. He even [[The Tease|prides himself on how sexy he looks]] transformed. And [[Feminine Women Can Cook|cooks better while female]], just out of habit. It's in part Tedd's idea of having fun, and in part [//egscomics.com/comic/2017-09-01 Tedd's idea of how to twit his dad]. Amusingly, this in turn earns Tedd "[//egscomics.com/comic/2017-08-07 young lady]" from his fairy grand-godmother, though Tedd is fine with that.
* ''[[The Wotch]]'': Frequent enough that some bloggers have remarked on the [[Unfortunate Implications]].
** Made explicit in the case of the four [[Jerk Jock]]s who got turned into cheerleaders (''[[Cheer|The Wotch, Cheer!]]'') where it's flat-out stated that the four primarily acted like macho jerks to repress their fundamentally kind and gentle (i.e. "feminine") inner natures
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