hah!

[telophase]

The link to Regendered is going around my f-list - you pop in a URL and it replaces the gendered words in it with their opposite (she/he, his/her, and, amusingly, Anne/Anthony). So I popped in the URL for the review I did yesterday, which makes some parts of seem like a much more interesting book. meganbmoore's review is also by turns hilarious and disturbing).

And then I followed the link to rachelmanija's review of Anne Bishop's Daughter of the Blood, which turns into Anthony Bishop's Son of the Blood, and just about died laughing at the results of Regendered on the third paragraph (which, I have to say, was pretty funny with the original genders):

There are magic cock rings. They are controlled by witches to enslave the wearers, who often magically zap them with pain. This makes many of the female characters perform actions like, "Moaning and clutching her groin, she staggered up the stairs," or "Carefully holding her crotch, she pursued him."

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[morineko]

I did this (partially) manually for large bits of On Basilisk Station, because I was curious if it would have made a difference if one of the supporting characters was male or female.

The fact that I found the character's motivations easier to understand if it was female made me question my views on gender a small bit. (It also made me wonder if Weber wrote that character that way on purpose.)

[telophase]

When I read Megan's review of The Betrayal regendered, the Evil Queen seemed much more evil when male, which also made me question my views on gender.

[softestbullet]

Omgsocool!

Thanks to Regendered, I was able to read the phrase, "Click for sultry Melvin Fox photos!" on Fox News' main page, as well as enjoying an entire Reddit comment thread about a woman without a single comment on her physical appearance. Amazing!

[telophase]

It is a force for good! :D

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Mine is now full of canon attempts at mpreg!

...

Which could have made it more interesting, actually...

And I hate mpreg.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I feel like hunting down a bunch of book reviews and running them through Regender. Maybe I'll go check out the one Rachel did of that romance book I sent her...

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Not to that review yet, but passed by her Trek reboot review:

Much as I loved Uhura and his relationship with Spock, every single significant male character in the entire movie was either a dad or a love interest. Men still don't get to command or kick ass. And they're all still stuck in the ridiculous miniskirt uniforms, and mostly looked vastly uncomfortable in them. Every man on the bridge seemed to be telepathically projecting, "Please Goddess don't let the camera see up my skirt."

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

AWESOME.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

There's an alternate universe I could live in!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

"He has a Destiny and Very Special Magic Rocks."

Until the rats ate them!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And the comments get surreal too, occasionally: "I had forgotten about the rats eating some gal's balls."

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Check out your review of the regendered Self-Made Woman: One Man's Year Disguised as a Woman. (http://regender.com/swap/http://rachelmanija.livejournal.com/482276.html)

"Instead, he penetrates blue-collar bowling leagues, sleazy door-to-door sales companies, a monastery, cheap strip clubs, and an Iron Joyce group."

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Iron Joyce!

It's scary how much more interesting some books suddenly become whent he genders are reversed.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

That could be a good writer's tool: regender your synopsis, and if the story becomes much more interesting, write that one instead.

[madame-manga.livejournal.com]

Applied to scenes set in Edo period Japan, this is disturbingly hilarious. Especially when the scene involves a sex worker and a potential customer. XD

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

ZOMG the OH JOYCE RINGO NO link...