Story Discussion: You Have Been Warned, do not continue if you suffer from high pretension, ego intolerance or allergies to things you haven't thought of....MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

Hmmm, I responded to a person in email and figured it was worth posting

In a discussion of Alternate Players, they wrote the following, which I am taking out of context for my own nefarious purposes. (Writing ain't fair...)

“Masculinity is about dominance, assumption of authority, aggressiveness, and protection of the weaker female” (Name Witheld), reportedly said to a cheering crowd of rednecks and feminists, 2006

Hmm, so small, physically weak, easy going , nurturing men are not masculine….Ok, I can buy that, meets the commonly accepted definition....

But then are aggressive, authoritative, self assured women not feminine? Hmmmm, no, that doesn’t work, so therefore the logic of the first one doesn’t work either….

Damn this is hard…..

Here’s what I was trying to draw….

Jenny is a lesbian but loves Robert (yes, I know that's an oxymoron...except maybe it isn't)

The MacGuffin (The Domron) needs Jenny to feel fulfilled and have a mate, so it tries to remake Robert into Jenny’s ideal, through environmental and persona changes.

Jenny’s ideal is full of contradictions (Hmm, like gender roles are full of contradictions) (Paging Doctor RD Laing, you're needed in skullduggery...)

Robert is exposed to being physically weaker than most (The Irish Wetback Maid), he is also exposed to a role where his looks and surface emotions are his worth in society ( The Pop Star).

He is then exposed to a role being Jenny’s complement (Reality Plus 3), not dominant, and using his looks AND his brains socially

Gender differences are minimized in these worlds, but not removed completely. (Try and imagine worlds where our current world is gender differentiation of 50, and say "Zhor" (TM) is 80 and the realities I described are more like 20 on a 0 to 100 scale of gender differences. Just play with sliding the dial, accepting you can never reach 0 or 100.)

Do we change ourselves for the one we love? (Rewriting our own code) Do people who love us change us to suit them? (Having Our Code Rewritten) Does Love as a construct , because it requires two people, change those two people? (Creating a Meta-Code)

That was what I wanted to explore with the story.

Comments welcome, especially if you actually have read the damn thing....