Oh. See I always thought the trope was for female characters that ever have their gender taken into account when being made so they come off like men in a female skin. Like the name man with boobs. I use a video game example because it's just kind of easy to spot in games.brtt150 said:Okay, developers not making unique animations for females is NOT the point of this supposed trope. The point is that developers are taking female characters and giving them traditionally masculine roles. No feminist worth a grain of salt actually believes that bs. The idea of the trope is actively reinforcing gender roles, which you know, actual feminists don't like.
If it's just women doing adopting male roles, that is kind of a different thing. It's still not a problem by itself in fact it's a good thing, but it dose server to highlight a different problem when you look at how manly women are often seen as better for not having feminine traits. It's kind of like we want our men to be men and our women to be also men to. Femininity gets kind of undervalued.
(Now I feel kind of unsure because this is actually a thing I kind of noticed way back in middle school and middle school me was kind of stupid.)
(You know I looked this trope up to see what Google says and most of the examples were about Gynecomastia. This is not a commonly talked about trope.)