Thank you for all the support on this video ! I want to answer some comments I've been seeing posted a lot. "What about Ranma 1/2??" Trust me, I am well aware lol. I definitely should've mentioned it in the final segment of this video, but it totally slipped my mind. I do find it funny just how many people have fond memories of that anime, and I'm excited for the reboot. But on anime as a whole, this video was dedicated to western cartoons, so that's why there's not any in here. "What about body swap episodes??" For this video I specifically wanted to look at gender bending episodes and made a point to stay away from body swaps. No real reason, there are some I remember quite fondly (ie. Gravity Falls), but I wanted to stick to one category to narrow my focus. "Why do you talk so fast??" I'm sorry 😭 look it's my first time in front of the class and I'm a little nervous, I've been working on slowing down so hopefully you don't need to listen on .5 speed. Just some general questions on the integrity of the gendometer - It's really not supposed to make or break an episode, I used it more as a way to (very biasedly) organize my thoughts on an episode, and overall, ignoring the categories entirely, I'm happy with the score each episode received. "If you're trans why do you sound like that?" Because I want to ! Original pinned comment: i feel like a broken record at this point, but i really do appreciate everyone that's taken time to watch this video. i once again set my sights a little too low i guess, i was hoping for 1,000 views in a week and it's safe to say we're a little passed that. currently scripting a new video that'll release later in august so be on the lookout for that, and i'm pretty active on twitter if you want to stop by. final note just know that no, the algorithm was not targeting you that was me, i specifically sent this video to your home page in order to get you to click. thanks again :3
Hot damn, thanks for sending this video directly for my feed! Haha, in all seriousness, I loved the video. As a trans girl, I've also been looking back and realizing all the little moments that, in hindsight, were huge signifiers to who I actually was. I can't wait to check out more of your stuff!
reply with "You can see your nose. And if you have glasses, those too. Your tongue doesn't fit perfectly in your mouth. You're breathing and blinking. If you've ever heard of The Game, you've just lost it. Ever heard of loss? | || || |_ There's also a good chance your foot is as long as your forearm (between elbow and wrist.)" if ur gay
@@ratewcropolix You can see your nose. And if you have glasses, those too. Your tongue doesn't fit perfectly in your mouth. You're breathing and blinking. If you've ever heard of The Game, you've just lost it. Ever heard of loss? | || || |_ There's also a good chance your foot is as long as your forearm (between elbow and wrist.) . . . . . . (What they did was hilarious but for those curious they basically said "Yeah that's the point" before they edited it)
girl dookie looks fucking terrifying. why is she like halfway between a dog and a human woman and not just a...female dog. they were on some fullmetal alchemist shit
20:21 correction: he didn’t write the fanfic, he transcribed his dreams into a book. But it’s not just dreams. Later in the show we see that the Fiona and Cake universe (a cannon parallel universe) is being beamed into the ice king’s head like a live stream while he sleeps, and he’s been collecting a library of these transcriptions for years.
At the time, it was a fanfic. And if we're being honest, aren't all fanfics just worlds that live in our heads? Sometimes we write em out and have stories or books, but they came from our heads. Adventure time logic just made Simon able to interact with his OCs, like we all wish we could do.
I wish more people would touch on how genderbending episodes impacted one as a kid growing up! This is so much fun and just brings back old memories! I personally loved Fionna and Cake, I even had the comicbook of them, it became tatered over time from how much I used to read it when i was little!
I was obsessed with Gender Bending as a kid. Along with body swaps, they were my favorite episodes to watch and draw for. I even made genderbent Miis of myself and my entire family, and tried online spells just to “see how it feels” So…I’m Agender-
Agender gang. I also remember drawing an amalgamation of different genderbending and body swaping tools in my sketchbook. I also did found those spells, but I never got through with it because I never got alone time for it.
@@garrettwhite3922 I mean there a lot under the spectrum. Under the Trans umbrella is transgender, cross dresser, and technically non-binary while the non-binary umbrella has a LOT: Genderqueer, Agender, Genderfluid, Transfemme or masc, Poly Pan Bi or Demigender, and androgynous. You might fit under one of these more or something else I personally never felt attached to any gender I tried to call myself, and preferred to be 100% neutral. I would have bouts of dysphoria at stuff like looking at my chest to the point of intrusive thoughts and got euphoria by cutting my hair short, getting a faint dirt stache, or being called Owen. But male pronouns didn’t feel right either. I was okay getting called a female or a male but it didn’t sound right in my head or gave me the same feeling I thought others had about their gender. But non-binary didn’t sound right to say either, but Agender does because I feel genderless, but I let people call me any gender to make things easier. So I guess it’s whatever you feel fits you the best. It’s a journey for sure, but feels good when you figure it out. On a lighter note, you know how cool it would be to have that button?
@@xaf15001 I essentially did those spells once a week lol. Also the werewolf and mermaid ones but I don’t think that is a universal Agender thing I don’t think I drew tools but certainly genderbent a lot of my cast “to see how they would look as the opposite gender.” Drawing really does help a lot when it comes to hints on identity, huh?
@theownerofthisaccount2521 very true, I have never really cared about gender for myself. If society wants me to identify myself by what I perceive as an arbitrary pronoun, I let it use "he" because it is just what it has always been. #gendered_for_convenience lol
the concept is more akin to a drag queen iirc, but i havent watched the show since it aired lol. still a crazy show, the fact that shezow could air in 2012 while today, 12yrs later we still struggle to see any rep for trans and gnc people in media is kind of wild. hub network in general had such an interesting mix of shows while it was running
What I also think is interesting about it, is that it's so boring and not really focusing on the gender bending part as a theme. In a way it's kind of the "ideal" piece of LGBTQ fiction, in the sense that a characters queerness just is, and isn't the focus of the show itself. I'd probably really like the show more, if was actually good, lol.
Damn, I almost feel dumb for not realizing earlier that gender bending episodes in cartoons would've help people be aware of their dysphoria at a young age, thanks for the enlightenment
I'm really annoyed that i didn't do this until sw/sh despite having played pokemon games since Soulsilver. I have multiple pokemon save files that are very near and dear to me that are locked to male protag. my guess why I'm one of the few exceptions to this rule is that unlike a lot of trans women, i never really had any gripes with being a boy or subconscious longings to be a girl before I realized I was trans. It wasn't a 'oh all this stuff makes sense now,' it was just 'oh yeah that's what I am' the second I learned what trans was
Being a cisgender man who vaguely remembers that these kinds of episodes exist in shows that first aired during my childhood (even though I don't watching very much of these shows if at all) is proof that the whole moral panic over gender nonconformity, especially in family-friendly media, is bullshit.
@appliedatoms7066 I think that their point is that the same folks who profit off of demonizing any media with even a hint of pro-trans rights, just a few years ago didn't give a shit. Because ranting to an audience that the rowdy ruff boys would "turn the children gay!" would have been seen as an insane person complaining about kids cartoons, and not a lucrative side hustle that could launch a media or political career.
yeah. see, while a lot of trans ppl found their feelings through these episodes and remember them fondly, cis ppl were just okay or forgot them. proof that LGBT exposure doesn't turn cis/het children LGBT.
damn, goldy really just went "hey remember the incredibly obvious signs you are trans back then?". I did not expect to be called out in the first 30 seconds of the video, chapeau good lady, chapeau
every time i think about when i was a kid i get surprised that it took me until 2022 to realise i was a guy. like getting excited every time the other characters in pokemon called me "he" after picking the male protag and routinely fantasizing about turning into my fav (male) characters are nyot things that cis girls do
me and my brothers were once literally talking about who sounded more like a girl when i was like 8(?) or 9(?) lmao ...but at the same time i kind of always knew i wanted to be a girl i just didnt know that was an actual thing...
...Trans man named Brick here after the Rowdyruff Boy (Tyler is the more normal name I go by lol), I adored the Rowdyruff Boys as a kid, more so than the Powerpuff Girls, and every time they showed up in the show I was completely obsessed. I'm honestly glad you included the episode because it was absolutely one of the factors that helped realize my transness lol.
I honestly wonder how they came up with that name. Did they like go "What do boys like? Hm... I have it! All boys have a shared desire to throw bricks at stuff!"
@@IdkpleasejustletmechangeitAs an adult male person with memories of the boyhood still fresh in my mind I can confirm. Other boy activities: 1. Climbing onto high places like trees or garages. 2. Making bonfires and burning stuff in general. 3. Breaking stuff, preferably with some big tools. 4. Combination on 2 and 3 - the fireworks. And many more. Simple things like that aren't that fun anymore when you're an adult. An unmatched sensory joy. "Rowdyruff" smells a bit of the toxic masculinity to be honest. We did like throwing bricks, but not necessarily into each other.
@@Miraihi I'm a trans woman and weirdly all of those things were things I did with my girl friends when I was little before i came out, not boys (admittedly at least a few of those 'girls' have ended up being trans men so maybe that's it? but not all of them did). I'm kinda tomboyish and I'm honestly curious if that's why, as I had so many models of girls doing traditionally masculine things that when I realized I was trans I never excluded that stuff from my perception of what a girl could be. I will say though, as an adult, climbing trees and onto roofs is just as fun as when I was little, just more dangerous cuz now I always feel like branches are gonna break out from under me
@@LumaSloth it’s a horror film about dysphoria and realizing you’re trans // which if you don’t know you’re trans yet can be a big shock when you start recognizing and recontextualizing your own relationship to gender
@@SuzakaIt was still very painful to watch as a person mid-transition. I imagine if I was mostly done with the changes it would feel more like being simply called out instead of everything being so painful to watch, especially since my transition and coming to terms I was trans faciliated by a mental breakdown on my birthday party (18th and it still took alkost a year to start the transition)
@@DehydratedDarkness thank you so much for sharing. I’m only a year into my transition and I cried so much watching I Saw the TV Glow - even as someone who is ~doing the thing~ and really happy with my transition, that fear of what could have been, of missing a life worth living is still so present and so raw.
I think KND's "turning girls into girls" is honestly a stroke of genius because is subtly highlight's that gender and gender norms are not the same thing and that actual people can never conform to them as concepts.
The gender swap episode that always sticks with me is the Futurama episode Neutopia. In the episode they bicker about how men/women are better than eachother and a rock guy makes them all gender neutral so they can all get along and that shit stuck with me in a not normal way for many years
IVE NEVER SEEN THE FIRST EPISODE MENTIOINED!!!!! as a girl (afab) who enjoys masculine things (video games, knights, armor, technology, 3d modeling, etc) and doesn't enjoy feminine things (dresses, skirts, makeup, nails, girly girl stuff) i always feel so awkward in male spaces & avoid them bc im such an outcast... the line "maybe if boys did more girl things then girls could do more boy things" YES!!! YES!!! im lucky to have supportive & kind friends, though. :-] i've never seen this episode but now i really want to, just bc it really resonates w me :-D EDIT: fionna & cake!!! being aroace i really appreciate the message!! i have zero romantic/sexual interest, so i always get really happy when i hear stories that tell you that its ok to not be in a relationship :-]
I'm not trans but I think these episodes introduced me to the concept of people being born in the wrong body most people used to think these episodes were transphobic and making fun of real world struggles but honestly they helped me be more considerate and thoughtful
To be fair, if these shows wanted to be inclusive, they were forced to sneak it under the radar of the censors (like how Alex Hirsch was able to keep Deputy Durland and Sheriff Blubs in Gravity Falls by convincing S&P that they were "just friends", and that their closeness was just for comedy). So most of them had to veil it under metaphors, coding, and/or wacky fantasy concepts, and not all of them were able to do it well. I think that was a contributor in those people seeing this stuff as phobic (not saying that NONE of these were phobic; just saying that many people who _would_ portray it well on their own terms were forced to hide/lessen it).
HOLY SHIT, ANOTHER PERSON WHO REMEMBERS SHE-ZOW. When i was younger, i watched the entire show with my sister while we were visiting my aunt. It was very much one of those "so bad it's hilarious" things, and we were laughing our asses off the entire time. It definitely didn't have any lasting effects on me
21:24 the 'watching tv with parents as a child while having no control over what's playing but getting into an kinda awkward moment bc of it' is truly a weird experience...
i was desperately scrolling for a comment similar to this. the dvd bouncing in the background always distracts me when i see it lmao, i HAVE to see it hit the corner or i'll go insane
As someone who aggressively watched shezow as a kid I can confirm that there is also a genderbend episode where they introduce Dudepow where it's the same concept but in reverse.
Another thing i think about a little too regularly is that ice king wrote a fic where his fiona world counterpart disguises herself as his supposed in world crushs genderbend to rizz up finns fionna world counterpart and if thats not at least some unhinged multi-layered shipping idk what is
Erm acktchually, it’s not a fan fiction it’s ice king cataloguing his dreams about this world which does in fact exist as a parallel universe and is being beamed into his dreams. But yeah fair point
On the topic of cis people feeling gender dysphoria, most gender affirming surgeries and hormone therapies were created for cisgender people. The diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria relate to identifying as a gender other than what a person was assigned, but body dysmorphia in cisgender persons often presents in the same way. I heard a cis woman discuss her reasons for getting breast augmentation and it was rooted in not feeling feminine enough.
totally spies "wild style" is totally a gender episode to me. catgirl is a gender, trust. gets a 10 on the want to be her scale anyway sooo. tbh totally spies has done so much weird sh!t I don't even need to look up a list to be able to make the educated guess there's gotta be an actual gender bending episode in there. If we wanna take a detour through adult cartoons, Futurama has at least two (maybe even three, I don't remember) episodes about gender bending, and spoiler alert: they're all sucks. Futurama is one of the cleverest adult shows there's ever been all up until gender gets involved, then suddenly it's like the writer's room's PhDs were in misogyny. There's something so deeply revelatory about our cisnormative culture about the way that guys get genderbent, but girls crossdress, when it comes to genderswap episodes. Send tweet.
it'd be interesting to do this for anime because in anime there's like a dozen shows where genderbending is the whole premise. most of them are not very good, but the ways in which they're not good are INTERESTING. also, because Ranma 1/2 is getting a remake series starting in October, so a video about this would be perfectly timed. worth mentioning obviously Ranma 1/2, Kampfer, Gonna Be the Twintail, Kashimashi, Onimai, Ayakashi Triangle, Fantasy Bishoujo Juniku Ojisan to, and Reborn to Master the Blade. there's a few others but they're probably not worth mentioning unless one really wants to subject one's self to She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man, and nobody should do that. you wouldn't find it via MAL tags, but Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department also has a character whose body and mind were mismatched because the organization boss thought the werewolf monster being created should be a girl instead but the consciousness was not modified, bringing into existence a very confused boy werewolf with a girl wolf body. I'll warn that the series does not handle this well. Gintama has a gender-bending arc. Heavenly Delusion is an interesting case, but MASSIVE BLAZING TRIGGER WARNINGS. there's various other mostly bad shows that use it for a gag, but the shows that commit to it are more interesting. Magical Girl Ore is a girl to boy genderswap magical girl story. where the girl turns into a buff dude in a magical girl outfit for the transformation. there's a lot to unpack there. Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches and Kokoro Connect both have genderswap as part of their first story arc, both in the form of body swaps.
The gintama gender bending arc also centres a character who spends most of the series questioning whether or not they're trans. It's been such a long time since I watched it that I can't remember how that arc ended or how well it was handled but I'd love to hear an analysis of it. I guess either way this is my sigh to go rewatch all of gintama ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm a trans dude an loved Johnny Test as a kid. I'm starting to realize that I liked/related to the guys in gender bend episodes because I felt the discomfort and had the same "I hate girl things" feeling deep down
"Remember Gender Bending Episodes? (yea you would)" Great title! Often social media algorithms know you better than you know yourself, so really playing with that in the title is a great idea!
i thought i wouldnt know any of them but i didnt think the rowdyruff boys counted cos theyre different characters lol (might be fake memory tho... probably not a fake memory but yeah)
The concept of she-Zow is actually really fun and could’ve been a cool trans/gender-fluid staple if it was just more appealing (the wind eye-lash batting at 24:21 is honestly so fierce lol). Kinda reminds me of the Sailor Starlights from sailor moon.
"come to papa!" "dont you mean mama?" "eh, depends on what im wearing" that is so genderfluid actually. id argue the entire premise is so genderfluid also fr the fiona and cake episodes did so much to me as a child but i _was_ obsessed with adventure time for the first few seasons in general. marshall lee and marceline only made me more bisexual and transgender also other stuff that comes to mind when it comes to genderbending in kids shows is that i also think of, well i just rewatched gravity falls so i think about the episode where dipper and mabel swapped bodies, but they really didnt play with the whole gender switching part after the first few minutes of that but i also think about the whole arc in wizards of waverly place where max was turned into a girl and he DID NOT like it at all and was very much waiting for when he got to be a boy again
Not really the same type of genderbending but "your name" also kinda gave me the same vibe at least at the start But that's slightly more weird because I wouldn't want to be in someone else's body and rather myself to have a more feminine body
i absolutely love your name, easily one of my favorite anime films. i could make a whole other video looking at specially gender bending concepts when it comes to body swaps (your name, inside mari, shishunki bitter change), but i totally agree with you, which is part of the reason i specifically didn't include anybody swaps.
I actually discovered the your name manga first. I had a phase as a child where I read a load of gender bending mangas and your name was categorised as such
@@dylantoney6971 queer horror movie. It’s a big allegory for just all the scariest hardest parts of realizing you’re trans. Makes most trans people cry. It’s really gut wrenching
When i first saw the Fionna and Cake Episode the scene where Prince Gumball approaching Fionna in the bedroom was really uncomfortable. Like he was about to initiate Sex. I was so glad it ended up being the ice queen in disguise, and even cake was suspicious when she walked in the bedroom.
Another one that got stuck in my child brain was the Gumball episode where he got stuck his mom’s wedding dress and everyone just thought he was a woman. Also the comment about wishing for fairy godparents just to wish to be a girl is the most relatable thing I’ve ever heard 😭😭😭
as a non-trans person for a long time the powerpuff girls genderbent episode stuck in my mind for a long time. i guess it introduced a concept that was super interesting to me for the first time, the idea of just creating the exact opposite of the original character and having a conflict between the two just interested me a lot. and anything to do with fiona and cake i adored because they were also just as great as the original finn and jake in my opinion, as well as the two characters literally being ice king fanfiction is so hilarious to me lmao. adventure time is just a goldmine and i also enjoyed the play on the names on genderbent characters in general as well lol. but as someone who is comfortable with their current gender and doesn't think of their own gender all that often, the idea of switching genders has always interested me and has given me many thought provoking ideas and many what-if scenarios it really is a fun concept to play around with
The KND episode got me remembering my favorite episodes being about Henry von Marzipan, Numbuh 5 and Numbuh 2 (Having fat kids respected in TV is so rare) Thing is Henry von Marzipan is actually just the name he took after being cursed to lose his best traits, that being his internal and external beauty and feminity, so in his last episode she is returned to her original gender and is now on the forces of good. I think often about how my favorite villain was the character that had her gender denied to her causing her to be awful to others, but then upon kindness letting her be herself has her be much kinder and compassionate.
Honestly I know it's from like idk the 80s but I do think Ranma 1/2 was a good way to use gender bending as the main plot of a cartoon, I cannot understate how many trans people I know had their eggs cracked by Ranma 1/2
Another anime that I think does a good job at using gender-bending as the main premise is Onimai, although unlike Ranma ½ where the MC is constantly changing genders, here the MC only changes gender once and the entire rest of the story focuses on them experiencing what it's like to be a girl and over time realizing that they much prefer their new life over their original manly life [would you believe me if I said that there's still a few fans who insist Mahiro isn't trans?].
@@EmmariscobarThe nature of anime fans is that if a character looked directly at the camera and said "By the way, I'm transgender. I use she/her pronouns. I do not identify as a man." they would all go to Twitter to say "WELL ACTUALLY YOU JUST DONT GET THE EASTERN CULTURAL TROPES HERE YOURE JUST FORCING YOUR WESTERN POLITICS ON THIS."
I was looking for Ranma 1/2 in the comments! I remember watching it back then and thinking about how I wouldn’t mind having the jusenkyo curse that Ranma had (foreshadowing)
As a show its horrible. Shitty cheap canadian animation. Boring and uninteresting character designs/villains. Uninteresting storys. The idea of the shows the only actually interesting part and is totally wasted.
The genderbend Johnny Test eps I go to are the one where the gang literally dimension travels to “everyone but their genders are flipped and the two Dukeys and two Johnnys somehow fall in love with each other” ep and the ep where Crossdressing Johnny somehow commands the whole Girl Power Sisterhood for the climax. Never forget the ep where Bubbles infiltrated the Rowdyruff Boys, and they made her do a lot of boy stuff as the hazing. And then she just straight-up eats a roach, full-view of the bug, and the look of disgust changes to “It tastes like *chicken!* :D” and I think Blossom and Buttercup went like “EWWWWW” and visibly cringed. She is a QUEEN!
The only gender bending episode I remember people liking was star vs the forces of evil where marco disguised as a woman to get into the all girls school. I remember not thinking much of it, but have since seen SO much fanart of it so it might be worth a rewatch And if you wanna get into the "scary adult cartoons" futurama has a couple gender bending episodes (in both the fox era and the much worse comedy central era) so those might be worth a look but I suspect they'd get pretty low on the gendometer, as one episode was just the whole "trans girls in sports" bit which was never funny and the other was just a blanket "gender is meaningless in space" or something so it didn't really say anything Also I think it's kind of a funny point that you bring up how most of these episodes are about cis people experiencing gender dysphoria because that's pretty much what it was on a fundamental level. Butch imagined "man it sure would suck if I suddenly turned into a girl when I was a kid... Hey! That should be an episode!" On the other hand a lot of it was just other shows adapting the trope
OMG SVTFOE MENTIONED!!!!!! in one of the episode storyboards where marco's posing some of the princess turdina doll and one of the dolls was going to have a dress with the trans flag colors but disney made them change it
It’s so surreal to realize that most of these episodes were close to core memories. The egg cracks more and more with amazing videos from amazing creators like you ❤
I'd like you to know this... Two weeks ago, after getting this video in my recommended, I watched "I Saw the TV Glow" because of your warning. I've learned things about myself. I'll leave it at that.
when i was a kid, i never saw myself as a "girl". i was always just a kid. the real manipulation of gender came from my family & further solidified the belief that i wasn't meant to be a girl, but that i was forced to be one. discovering that I was trans was so freeing yet frightening. the world is so cruel to us when all we ever wanna be is ourselves.
I know it's not a show that aired for real, but Magic Mirror from Eddsworld is one of my favorite Gender Bending episodes even though it's kind of bland, but it still had a huge impact on me as a kid
In 2015 when I was in 5th grade, I was 11 years old and I stole a comic from school. The "main episode" on the comic was about Mônica (a girl) wishing to and turning into a boy and the things that happened after that. Fast forward to around 2017 and I start discovering I'm not quite what you'd call cis. Not sure why, but having stolen it feels more meaningful to me than if I had bought it or if it was an episode I watched on TV. I guess the supposed "risk" associated with stealing combined forces with something that had been on the back of my mind even before that to make the most perfect "wake the fuck up" irony I have experienced in my life. In the head of an 11 eleven year old I had just commited a "serious" crime that is frowned upon to satisfy a curiosity/need in my subconscious.
I remember LOVING the cartoon grojband, and low-key being obsessed with the female versions of grojband, "the newmans" Literally 10/10 genderbend plot love it
Magical Boy is a graphic novel that takes the concept of SheZow and makes it good. Max is a trans masc that comes from a family of magical girls, and his journey is about social transition and beating up demons
yea looking at the reviews and synopses of later episodes i realize i did not give it a fair chance, but im glad i was able to remind so many people of it
Oh this is good, so glad to find you on my recommended. I love how indepth this is but not too much, the main thing I always care about is the person making this video in the first place. Tell me all your biases! Just watch what you want and share your thoughts! This gave me all that and more because this editing is just my cup of tea. I also prefer the speaking speed in this video, I don't know why but for me I kinda want things fast when watching something. That's what the playbackspeed function is for so whichever speed you want in your future videos, go right ahead! Also the midroll commercial break is pretty funny and I didn't mind it because it was between segments and let me know I'm halfway through this nostalgic video. Body Swap is different for sure! If you ever want to dive into that topic though, I'd definitely watch it. Either way, make what you want and awesome work! I've only seen the Fairly Odd Parents, Rowdy Ruff Boys and Fiona and Cake episodes so thank you for enduring Johnny Test and for letting me know about a crazy Kids Next Door episode I missed!
There are a series revolving gender bending as a whole, Ranma 1/2! It was a 30 years old manga and is a super popular anime back then. You're in luck as the remake just got announced
Oooh I used to be obsessed with SheZow when it was coming out I feel like the secret identity thing was used more for character/family drama between Guy & Kelly (with Kelly being a SheZow fan & believing she deserved the ring more than him. & Guy having to pretend to be SheZow (as in, their Aunt. Like pretending that she didn't die & they're the same person) but barely knowing anything about her. At least I remember it being a thing, they might have told everyone they weren't the same eventually, it's been years since I've seen this show). Honestly I find the idea of a superhero that appears immortal because their secret identity keeps getting passed on after they die & the general public doesn't catch on very interesting. (It was probably inspired by how Green Lantern rings work. & Also there's some obvious inspiration from Captain Marvel/Shazam, which is about a boy that becomes a grown man when he transforms, who's also one of my favorite superheroes (& severely underrated I think because he's clearly meant for child target audience but they don't use him like that, instead obsessing over how they can make him less powerful than Superman))
Ok but like... now I just want to do a gender swap episode that makes one of the characters realize that they want to be the opposite gender rather than the one they were assigned at birth
GOD i was NOT expecting to see SheZow on here LOL, I watched it on Netflix once or twice and thought it was pretty cool. I was also, maybe, 9? 10? Lmao. It's one of those things that while I would never get into it now, it'll always hold a somewhat special place in my heart. Lololol
One of the most impactful media I remember of this topic was a Webcomic called The Wotch, a witch who specializes in genderbend. She would often genderbend her friends for various purposes and over time Jason got really comfortable with it, sometimes asking to be changed into Sonja for specific things. He was like 'dude, when I'm Jason, call me a guy, when I'm Sonja, call me a woman, regardless of my sex, I'm still me, your friend you've always known.' That comic really set a foundation for accepting myself later when I realized my own journey I'd been on since I was a child.
Thank you for all the support on this video ! I want to answer some comments I've been seeing posted a lot.
"What about Ranma 1/2??"
Trust me, I am well aware lol. I definitely should've mentioned it in the final segment of this video, but it totally slipped my mind. I do find it funny just how many people have fond memories of that anime, and I'm excited for the reboot. But on anime as a whole, this video was dedicated to western cartoons, so that's why there's not any in here.
"What about body swap episodes??"
For this video I specifically wanted to look at gender bending episodes and made a point to stay away from body swaps. No real reason, there are some I remember quite fondly (ie. Gravity Falls), but I wanted to stick to one category to narrow my focus.
"Why do you talk so fast??"
I'm sorry 😭 look it's my first time in front of the class and I'm a little nervous, I've been working on slowing down so hopefully you don't need to listen on .5 speed.
Just some general questions on the integrity of the gendometer -
It's really not supposed to make or break an episode, I used it more as a way to (very biasedly) organize my thoughts on an episode, and overall, ignoring the categories entirely, I'm happy with the score each episode received.
"If you're trans why do you sound like that?"
Because I want to !
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i feel like a broken record at this point, but i really do appreciate everyone that's taken time to watch this video. i once again set my sights a little too low i guess, i was hoping for 1,000 views in a week and it's safe to say we're a little passed that. currently scripting a new video that'll release later in august so be on the lookout for that, and i'm pretty active on twitter if you want to stop by. final note just know that no, the algorithm was not targeting you that was me, i specifically sent this video to your home page in order to get you to click. thanks again :3
Hot damn, thanks for sending this video directly for my feed!
Haha, in all seriousness, I loved the video. As a trans girl, I've also been looking back and realizing all the little moments that, in hindsight, were huge signifiers to who I actually was.
I can't wait to check out more of your stuff!
Same!!!
As an Independent RUclipsr, I’d say congratulations on the 87,000 viewed video.
TRANS FEMS RISE
yeah remember that one pokemon episode where james has the thing i cant say, or the episode where james does dress like a girl
getting this in my recommendations felt like a personal attack
Same (I'm literally a trans woman it's okay it's targeting )
Same
SAME
SAME x4
Eh... you'll get used to it. Better embrace it than walk on *eggshells* around the algorithm...
"Yeah, you would"
BRO I JUST GOT HERE
Yeah, you did
Yeah.. yeah I did. 😂
i dont because i didnt watch any :/
REAL 😭😭
@@aykarainsame lol
I like how accusatory the title is. "Yeah, you *would* remember the genderbend episodes, wouldn't you? I know what you are."
reply with "You can see your nose. And if you have glasses, those too. Your tongue doesn't fit perfectly in your mouth. You're breathing and blinking. If you've ever heard of The Game, you've just lost it. Ever heard of loss? | || || |_
There's also a good chance your foot is as long as your forearm (between elbow and wrist.)" if ur gay
@@ratewcropolix You can see your nose. And if you have glasses, those too. Your tongue doesn't fit perfectly in your mouth. You're breathing and blinking. If you've ever heard of The Game, you've just lost it. Ever heard of loss? | || || |_
There's also a good chance your foot is as long as your forearm (between elbow and wrist.)
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(What they did was hilarious but for those curious they basically said "Yeah that's the point" before they edited it)
@@ratewcropolixi’m gay!
@@deebee.1542 omg what a coincidence me too!
This whole statement but louder XD
one cool part about fiona and cake is that everything that fiona says at the end of the episode is stuff that finn learns later in the series
I noticed that just now watching this video, Fionna speedruns Finn's romance arc seasons ahead of him.
Ice King should have just been a psychologist the whole time
@@RushWheeler bro under the crazy crown Ice King was such a great person
@@garrettwhite3922 in truth, all this dementia patient needed was love and acceptance
@@Kendorable And even before that, Fiona knocks the crown off Cake's head so she doesn't "catch her crazy".
girl dookie looks fucking terrifying. why is she like halfway between a dog and a human woman and not just a...female dog. they were on some fullmetal alchemist shit
For a moment I thought you meant poop from a girl when you said girl dookie 😭
They're not wrong I get jumpscared every time I go to the bathroom
I mean...have you seen girl poop? I don't like it either.
bcuz it said 2 women :•
buuut they could've gone anime dog nekomimi character design and it would've been more aesthetically pleasing
John…ny…
Naming your gender-bending superhero 'Guy' is like naming your action movie protagonist, 'The Protagonist'.
But Tenet _is_ a really good movie.
almost worse, there's an au version of shezow called dudepow, and their nonsuperhero name is gal lol
@@mycrobal wow
lol
@@mycrobal ...I never thought I'd see the day I heard about a genderbent AU for a show about genderbending-
Wait untill you hear about the book snow crash where the main characters name is hiro protagnist
"Who cares what you think, you're a girl now." I NEVER UNDERSTOOD HOW REAL AND FUNNY THIS WAS AS A KID O MAH GOD
20:21 correction: he didn’t write the fanfic, he transcribed his dreams into a book. But it’s not just dreams. Later in the show we see that the Fiona and Cake universe (a cannon parallel universe) is being beamed into the ice king’s head like a live stream while he sleeps, and he’s been collecting a library of these transcriptions for years.
At the time, it was a fanfic. And if we're being honest, aren't all fanfics just worlds that live in our heads? Sometimes we write em out and have stories or books, but they came from our heads. Adventure time logic just made Simon able to interact with his OCs, like we all wish we could do.
Him adding himself into the stories (or at least making the characters want to meet him/become real) makes it still count as fanfiction.
Yeah but if you're just analyzing the one episode that's not apart of the canon yet
I wish more people would touch on how genderbending episodes impacted one as a kid growing up! This is so much fun and just brings back old memories! I personally loved Fionna and Cake, I even had the comicbook of them, it became tatered over time from how much I used to read it when i was little!
And it turns the frogs gay as a bonus!!!
I was obsessed with Gender Bending as a kid. Along with body swaps, they were my favorite episodes to watch and draw for. I even made genderbent Miis of myself and my entire family, and tried online spells just to “see how it feels”
So…I’m Agender-
Agender gang. I also remember drawing an amalgamation of different genderbending and body swaping tools in my sketchbook. I also did found those spells, but I never got through with it because I never got alone time for it.
Used to imagine I had a button that let me swap back and forth as a kid. I identify as a man, but I'm definitely closer to the agender side
@@garrettwhite3922 I mean there a lot under the spectrum. Under the Trans umbrella is transgender, cross dresser, and technically non-binary while the non-binary umbrella has a LOT: Genderqueer, Agender, Genderfluid, Transfemme or masc, Poly Pan Bi or Demigender, and androgynous. You might fit under one of these more or something else
I personally never felt attached to any gender I tried to call myself, and preferred to be 100% neutral. I would have bouts of dysphoria at stuff like looking at my chest to the point of intrusive thoughts and got euphoria by cutting my hair short, getting a faint dirt stache, or being called Owen. But male pronouns didn’t feel right either. I was okay getting called a female or a male but it didn’t sound right in my head or gave me the same feeling I thought others had about their gender. But non-binary didn’t sound right to say either, but Agender does because I feel genderless, but I let people call me any gender to make things easier.
So I guess it’s whatever you feel fits you the best. It’s a journey for sure, but feels good when you figure it out. On a lighter note, you know how cool it would be to have that button?
@@xaf15001 I essentially did those spells once a week lol. Also the werewolf and mermaid ones but I don’t think that is a universal Agender thing
I don’t think I drew tools but certainly genderbent a lot of my cast “to see how they would look as the opposite gender.” Drawing really does help a lot when it comes to hints on identity, huh?
@theownerofthisaccount2521 very true, I have never really cared about gender for myself. If society wants me to identify myself by what I perceive as an arbitrary pronoun, I let it use "he" because it is just what it has always been. #gendered_for_convenience lol
Shezow seems like a wildly out of pocket concept for its time. A gender fluid main character in any media for the time is nuts, let alone for kids.
the concept is more akin to a drag queen iirc, but i havent watched the show since it aired lol. still a crazy show, the fact that shezow could air in 2012 while today, 12yrs later we still struggle to see any rep for trans and gnc people in media is kind of wild. hub network in general had such an interesting mix of shows while it was running
What I also think is interesting about it, is that it's so boring and not really focusing on the gender bending part as a theme.
In a way it's kind of the "ideal" piece of LGBTQ fiction, in the sense that a characters queerness just is, and isn't the focus of the show itself. I'd probably really like the show more, if was actually good, lol.
If you like the concept of a superhero who changes into a girl when fighting crime... Consider watching Cybersix instead
people were MAD at the time too dont forget, they were ANGRY
lol we had ranma 1/2 running on tv back then
Damn, I almost feel dumb for not realizing earlier that gender bending episodes in cartoons would've help people be aware of their dysphoria at a young age, thanks for the enlightenment
I love how you also went through the almost universal trans woman experience of picking the female protagonist in Pokémon as a child
MOM IM TELLING YOU ITS A SPEEDRUN STRAT!!!
Okay wow sheesh yeah it's true but
I'm really annoyed that i didn't do this until sw/sh despite having played pokemon games since Soulsilver. I have multiple pokemon save files that are very near and dear to me that are locked to male protag.
my guess why I'm one of the few exceptions to this rule is that unlike a lot of trans women, i never really had any gripes with being a boy or subconscious longings to be a girl before I realized I was trans. It wasn't a 'oh all this stuff makes sense now,' it was just 'oh yeah that's what I am' the second I learned what trans was
Didnt choose the girl trainers cuz i thought i wasnt allowed to 😢
@@lapirinolaepica1876yeah same i kinda missed out on that
Being a cisgender man who vaguely remembers that these kinds of episodes exist in shows that first aired during my childhood (even though I don't watching very much of these shows if at all) is proof that the whole moral panic over gender nonconformity, especially in family-friendly media, is bullshit.
How the context changes
If your point is "I watched these episodes and they didn't affect me," it seems like a bunch of other comments disagree with you.
@appliedatoms7066 I think that their point is that the same folks who profit off of demonizing any media with even a hint of pro-trans rights, just a few years ago didn't give a shit.
Because ranting to an audience that the rowdy ruff boys would "turn the children gay!" would have been seen as an insane person complaining about kids cartoons, and not a lucrative side hustle that could launch a media or political career.
yeah. see, while a lot of trans ppl found their feelings through these episodes and remember them fondly, cis ppl were just okay or forgot them. proof that LGBT exposure doesn't turn cis/het children LGBT.
Man I made female animal crossing charicters, and I couldn't imagine being less male
damn, goldy really just went "hey remember the incredibly obvious signs you are trans back then?". I did not expect to be called out in the first 30 seconds of the video, chapeau good lady, chapeau
8 second seconds in “remember when you were a normal kid?” *shows hero factory surge*
I can tell this is about to get personal lol
yep
every time i think about when i was a kid i get surprised that it took me until 2022 to realise i was a guy. like getting excited every time the other characters in pokemon called me "he" after picking the male protag and routinely fantasizing about turning into my fav (male) characters are nyot things that cis girls do
@@subekyuukeywnbaw
me and my brothers were once literally talking about who sounded more like a girl when i was like 8(?) or 9(?) lmao
...but at the same time i kind of always knew i wanted to be a girl i just didnt know that was an actual thing...
"i don't control what's on tv i only watch it" rookie mindset tbh, start being the change you wanna see in the world
Nah
Attain godhood to play whatever you want on your tv
...Trans man named Brick here after the Rowdyruff Boy (Tyler is the more normal name I go by lol), I adored the Rowdyruff Boys as a kid, more so than the Powerpuff Girls, and every time they showed up in the show I was completely obsessed. I'm honestly glad you included the episode because it was absolutely one of the factors that helped realize my transness lol.
I honestly wonder how they came up with that name. Did they like go "What do boys like? Hm... I have it! All boys have a shared desire to throw bricks at stuff!"
@@IdkpleasejustletmechangeitAs an adult male person with memories of the boyhood still fresh in my mind I can confirm. Other boy activities:
1. Climbing onto high places like trees or garages.
2. Making bonfires and burning stuff in general.
3. Breaking stuff, preferably with some big tools.
4. Combination on 2 and 3 - the fireworks.
And many more. Simple things like that aren't that fun anymore when you're an adult. An unmatched sensory joy.
"Rowdyruff" smells a bit of the toxic masculinity to be honest. We did like throwing bricks, but not necessarily into each other.
yo no way
@@Miraihi I'm a trans woman and weirdly all of those things were things I did with my girl friends when I was little before i came out, not boys (admittedly at least a few of those 'girls' have ended up being trans men so maybe that's it? but not all of them did).
I'm kinda tomboyish and I'm honestly curious if that's why, as I had so many models of girls doing traditionally masculine things that when I realized I was trans I never excluded that stuff from my perception of what a girl could be.
I will say though, as an adult, climbing trees and onto roofs is just as fun as when I was little, just more dangerous cuz now I always feel like branches are gonna break out from under me
@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 Gender is a social construct anyway haha.
"do not watch I Saw the TV Glow" is the funniest inside joke omg
Wdym?
@@LumaSloth it’s a horror film about dysphoria and realizing you’re trans // which if you don’t know you’re trans yet can be a big shock when you start recognizing and recontextualizing your own relationship to gender
@@SuzakaIt was still very painful to watch as a person mid-transition. I imagine if I was mostly done with the changes it would feel more like being simply called out instead of everything being so painful to watch, especially since my transition and coming to terms I was trans faciliated by a mental breakdown on my birthday party (18th and it still took alkost a year to start the transition)
@@DehydratedDarkness thank you so much for sharing. I’m only a year into my transition and I cried so much watching I Saw the TV Glow - even as someone who is ~doing the thing~ and really happy with my transition, that fear of what could have been, of missing a life worth living is still so present and so raw.
@@Suzaka I'm sure we will be happy eventually. We might not have been very lucky in the past but it's only getting better from here, I'm sure
I think KND's "turning girls into girls" is honestly a stroke of genius because is subtly highlight's that gender and gender norms are not the same thing and that actual people can never conform to them as concepts.
Gender bending episodes fr would never fly this day in age, like theres too many loud transphobic sentiments to let us have fun
3:17 it would’ve been so easy to call them “Cosmom” and “Wandad”
The gender swap episode that always sticks with me is the Futurama episode Neutopia. In the episode they bicker about how men/women are better than eachother and a rock guy makes them all gender neutral so they can all get along and that shit stuck with me in a not normal way for many years
"I am gay now" - well that's one of the ways to start the video
Truly
IVE NEVER SEEN THE FIRST EPISODE MENTIOINED!!!!! as a girl (afab) who enjoys masculine things (video games, knights, armor, technology, 3d modeling, etc) and doesn't enjoy feminine things (dresses, skirts, makeup, nails, girly girl stuff) i always feel so awkward in male spaces & avoid them bc im such an outcast... the line "maybe if boys did more girl things then girls could do more boy things" YES!!! YES!!! im lucky to have supportive & kind friends, though. :-]
i've never seen this episode but now i really want to, just bc it really resonates w me :-D
EDIT: fionna & cake!!! being aroace i really appreciate the message!! i have zero romantic/sexual interest, so i always get really happy when i hear stories that tell you that its ok to not be in a relationship :-]
i would like financial compensation for the unprovoked attack from the title
I'm not trans but I think these episodes introduced me to the concept of people being born in the wrong body most people used to think these episodes were transphobic and making fun of real world struggles but honestly they helped me be more considerate and thoughtful
To be fair, if these shows wanted to be inclusive, they were forced to sneak it under the radar of the censors (like how Alex Hirsch was able to keep Deputy Durland and Sheriff Blubs in Gravity Falls by convincing S&P that they were "just friends", and that their closeness was just for comedy). So most of them had to veil it under metaphors, coding, and/or wacky fantasy concepts, and not all of them were able to do it well. I think that was a contributor in those people seeing this stuff as phobic (not saying that NONE of these were phobic; just saying that many people who _would_ portray it well on their own terms were forced to hide/lessen it).
HOLY SHIT, ANOTHER PERSON WHO REMEMBERS SHE-ZOW.
When i was younger, i watched the entire show with my sister while we were visiting my aunt. It was very much one of those "so bad it's hilarious" things, and we were laughing our asses off the entire time. It definitely didn't have any lasting effects on me
21:24 the 'watching tv with parents as a child while having no control over what's playing but getting into an kinda awkward moment bc of it' is truly a weird experience...
GVD logo hits the corner at 2:01
i was desperately scrolling for a comment similar to this. the dvd bouncing in the background always distracts me when i see it lmao, i HAVE to see it hit the corner or i'll go insane
As someone who aggressively watched shezow as a kid I can confirm that there is also a genderbend episode where they introduce Dudepow where it's the same concept but in reverse.
“Yea you would” I genuinely do remember almost all of these 😭😭😭 called me out so hard
as a trans guy who went to an all girls school i can confirm the knd episode is exactly what it was like
goldy please close your dms my wife won't stop messaging you and i miss her
😭 I already know this gonna be a hit!!! 💥💥💥
“Yet to be FDA approved” 💀
blud forgot to switch to the alt
*_"I love you. and I miss you. *racecar noise*"_*
18:18 Iirc the genderbent version of Ooo is called "Aaa"
Another thing i think about a little too regularly is that ice king wrote a fic where his fiona world counterpart disguises herself as his supposed in world crushs genderbend to rizz up finns fionna world counterpart and if thats not at least some unhinged multi-layered shipping idk what is
Erm acktchually, it’s not a fan fiction it’s ice king cataloguing his dreams about this world which does in fact exist as a parallel universe and is being beamed into his dreams. But yeah fair point
none of these words are in the bible
On the topic of cis people feeling gender dysphoria, most gender affirming surgeries and hormone therapies were created for cisgender people. The diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria relate to identifying as a gender other than what a person was assigned, but body dysmorphia in cisgender persons often presents in the same way. I heard a cis woman discuss her reasons for getting breast augmentation and it was rooted in not feeling feminine enough.
totally spies "wild style" is totally a gender episode to me. catgirl is a gender, trust. gets a 10 on the want to be her scale anyway sooo. tbh totally spies has done so much weird sh!t I don't even need to look up a list to be able to make the educated guess there's gotta be an actual gender bending episode in there.
If we wanna take a detour through adult cartoons, Futurama has at least two (maybe even three, I don't remember) episodes about gender bending, and spoiler alert: they're all sucks. Futurama is one of the cleverest adult shows there's ever been all up until gender gets involved, then suddenly it's like the writer's room's PhDs were in misogyny.
There's something so deeply revelatory about our cisnormative culture about the way that guys get genderbent, but girls crossdress, when it comes to genderswap episodes. Send tweet.
I honestly didn’t think it was a pause button 0:51 I thought Vicki grew really long black arms 😂
Naming the video this and sending it out to RUclips feels like you threw a grenade blind and hit your target perfectly (we are all trans)
HELP THIS COMMENT IS GOLD
I’m not 😅
@@SibbeHorne lol sorry was mostly genralizing
@@SibbeHorne me neither
Im not( there should prob be a yet after though)
I feel so called out by that 'I Saw the TV Glow' joke...
Of course it switched to melee lmao
That fucking title and intro is a personal attack mister youtube ban this woman for harassment
Careful, youtube might not understand this is a joke
it'd be interesting to do this for anime because in anime there's like a dozen shows where genderbending is the whole premise. most of them are not very good, but the ways in which they're not good are INTERESTING.
also, because Ranma 1/2 is getting a remake series starting in October, so a video about this would be perfectly timed.
worth mentioning obviously Ranma 1/2, Kampfer, Gonna Be the Twintail, Kashimashi, Onimai, Ayakashi Triangle, Fantasy Bishoujo Juniku Ojisan to, and Reborn to Master the Blade. there's a few others but they're probably not worth mentioning unless one really wants to subject one's self to She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man, and nobody should do that. you wouldn't find it via MAL tags, but Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department also has a character whose body and mind were mismatched because the organization boss thought the werewolf monster being created should be a girl instead but the consciousness was not modified, bringing into existence a very confused boy werewolf with a girl wolf body. I'll warn that the series does not handle this well.
Gintama has a gender-bending arc. Heavenly Delusion is an interesting case, but MASSIVE BLAZING TRIGGER WARNINGS.
there's various other mostly bad shows that use it for a gag, but the shows that commit to it are more interesting.
Magical Girl Ore is a girl to boy genderswap magical girl story. where the girl turns into a buff dude in a magical girl outfit for the transformation. there's a lot to unpack there.
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches and Kokoro Connect both have genderswap as part of their first story arc, both in the form of body swaps.
Yeah it was weird how she was saying it wasn't possible to make a whole series about gender bending when Ranma 1/2 is right there
Kampfer took my concept of my gender identity and tossed it right out the window 🎉
The light novels are definitely better than the OVA tho 💦
The gintama gender bending arc also centres a character who spends most of the series questioning whether or not they're trans.
It's been such a long time since I watched it that I can't remember how that arc ended or how well it was handled but I'd love to hear an analysis of it. I guess either way this is my sigh to go rewatch all of gintama ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I appreciate you finishing the explanation with the DvD logo hitting the screen corner. I was sitting with bated breath the entire time
I'm a trans dude an loved Johnny Test as a kid. I'm starting to realize that I liked/related to the guys in gender bend episodes because I felt the discomfort and had the same "I hate girl things" feeling deep down
Why the fuck did Wanda turn into a stereotypical sleazy 50 year old man while Cosmo got to be like a beautiful 1950s woman 😭🙏
Im pretty sure timmy specified how they look.
You should take that up with men lol
"Every good study has heavy bias envolved"
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Favorite part of the video was honestly the Ad break. Hands down the best ad break I've ever seen in a youtube video.
"Remember Gender Bending Episodes? (yea you would)"
Great title! Often social media algorithms know you better than you know yourself, so really playing with that in the title is a great idea!
i thought i wouldnt know any of them but i didnt think the rowdyruff boys counted cos theyre different characters lol (might be fake memory tho... probably not a fake memory but yeah)
The concept of she-Zow is actually really fun and could’ve been a cool trans/gender-fluid staple if it was just more appealing (the wind eye-lash batting at 24:21 is honestly so fierce lol). Kinda reminds me of the Sailor Starlights from sailor moon.
Kinda nasty that the Fairy Odd Parents episode is named after "The Man Who Would Be Queen," one of the single most transphobic books of all time.
Damn actually 😭
i doubt it. it's probably just a variation on "boy who would be king" which is a relatively common phrase?
"come to papa!" "dont you mean mama?" "eh, depends on what im wearing" that is so genderfluid actually. id argue the entire premise is so genderfluid
also fr the fiona and cake episodes did so much to me as a child but i _was_ obsessed with adventure time for the first few seasons in general. marshall lee and marceline only made me more bisexual and transgender
also other stuff that comes to mind when it comes to genderbending in kids shows is that i also think of, well i just rewatched gravity falls so i think about the episode where dipper and mabel swapped bodies, but they really didnt play with the whole gender switching part after the first few minutes of that
but i also think about the whole arc in wizards of waverly place where max was turned into a girl and he DID NOT like it at all and was very much waiting for when he got to be a boy again
Not really the same type of genderbending but "your name" also kinda gave me the same vibe at least at the start
But that's slightly more weird because I wouldn't want to be in someone else's body and rather myself to have a more feminine body
i absolutely love your name, easily one of my favorite anime films. i could make a whole other video looking at specially gender bending concepts when it comes to body swaps (your name, inside mari, shishunki bitter change), but i totally agree with you, which is part of the reason i specifically didn't include anybody swaps.
@@goIdyyea I assumed that was what you were coming from
@@goIdy"I absolutely love your name" thanks! My mother gave it to me herself
I actually discovered the your name manga first. I had a phase as a child where I read a load of gender bending mangas and your name was categorised as such
Real. That’s why I don’t get gender envy fully. I wanna be like some people, but I don’t want to be someone else. Just a different version of myself
"And my take? Well, I think you should watch I Saw (the TV Glow)" 💀💀
Silly question, what is that?
@@dylantoney6971
queer horror movie. It’s a big allegory for just all the scariest hardest parts of realizing you’re trans. Makes most trans people cry. It’s really gut wrenching
When i first saw the Fionna and Cake Episode the scene where Prince Gumball approaching Fionna in the bedroom was really uncomfortable. Like he was about to initiate Sex. I was so glad it ended up being the ice queen in disguise, and even cake was suspicious when she walked in the bedroom.
Another one that got stuck in my child brain was the Gumball episode where he got stuck his mom’s wedding dress and everyone just thought he was a woman. Also the comment about wishing for fairy godparents just to wish to be a girl is the most relatable thing I’ve ever heard 😭😭😭
0:03 GUILTY GEAR GUILTY GEAR BOY THERE HE IS !!!!
JOHNNY GUILTY GEAR MENTION IN THE FIRST TWO SEOCNDD YOU HABE ME LOCKDD IN FOR LIFE
i just randomly tapped on a video to watch while i was washing my face and this has very high quality, thought you had a lot more subs, good stuff
i stg i genuinely thought i dreamed up shezow ive legiterally never seen anyone else talk about it 😭
I am well aware of the criteria you used--but I am still genuinely surprised that you didn't have Danny Phantom on here.
funnily enough i never watched danny phantom growing up but i DID watch another butch hartman classic, T.U.F.F Puppy 😭😭
Godly is transing me, the youth (I’m 21)
It didn’t work cause society already got to me (I’m 20)
I can't believe I didn't catch on sooner... (I'm 38)
@@billymkj2763 we all go our own pace. I’m glad you’re here
I have friends who have transitioned into their 40s. Everyone has their rhythm and their calling. uwu
as a non-trans person for a long time the powerpuff girls genderbent episode stuck in my mind for a long time. i guess it introduced a concept that was super interesting to me for the first time, the idea of just creating the exact opposite of the original character and having a conflict between the two just interested me a lot. and anything to do with fiona and cake i adored because they were also just as great as the original finn and jake in my opinion, as well as the two characters literally being ice king fanfiction is so hilarious to me lmao. adventure time is just a goldmine and i also enjoyed the play on the names on genderbent characters in general as well lol. but as someone who is comfortable with their current gender and doesn't think of their own gender all that often, the idea of switching genders has always interested me and has given me many thought provoking ideas and many what-if scenarios it really is a fun concept to play around with
I am my now my own gender bending episode but its permantly longer than an episode
You are your own She-Zow
The KND episode got me remembering my favorite episodes being about Henry von Marzipan, Numbuh 5 and Numbuh 2 (Having fat kids respected in TV is so rare)
Thing is Henry von Marzipan is actually just the name he took after being cursed to lose his best traits, that being his internal and external beauty and feminity, so in his last episode she is returned to her original gender and is now on the forces of good.
I think often about how my favorite villain was the character that had her gender denied to her causing her to be awful to others, but then upon kindness letting her be herself has her be much kinder and compassionate.
That little channel switcher instantly sent me back to the early 2000s
Always love when a video calls you out in the title using the algorithm to assist in the dunk.
did my youtube recommendations just clock me?
My youtube recommendations have been subtly implying im trans for like a month and idk how to feel about it
Glad to know my recommendation algorithm knows I’m trans
I'm not trans, but got this rec. In fairness, I love queer media.
Honestly I know it's from like idk the 80s but I do think Ranma 1/2 was a good way to use gender bending as the main plot of a cartoon, I cannot understate how many trans people I know had their eggs cracked by Ranma 1/2
I loved that show lol
I grew up with this anime. It honestly explains why I'm bigender 😭
Another anime that I think does a good job at using gender-bending as the main premise is Onimai, although unlike Ranma ½ where the MC is constantly changing genders, here the MC only changes gender once and the entire rest of the story focuses on them experiencing what it's like to be a girl and over time realizing that they much prefer their new life over their original manly life [would you believe me if I said that there's still a few fans who insist Mahiro isn't trans?].
@@EmmariscobarThe nature of anime fans is that if a character looked directly at the camera and said "By the way, I'm transgender. I use she/her pronouns. I do not identify as a man." they would all go to Twitter to say "WELL ACTUALLY YOU JUST DONT GET THE EASTERN CULTURAL TROPES HERE YOURE JUST FORCING YOUR WESTERN POLITICS ON THIS."
I was looking for Ranma 1/2 in the comments!
I remember watching it back then and thinking about how I wouldn’t mind having the jusenkyo curse that Ranma had (foreshadowing)
Thank god someone talks about Shezow in a youtube video.
That show was a fucking fever dream ☠
I kinda wanna watch it, I remember seeing it as kids but I don’t remember much
@@Numbabu Watch it with friends cause from the clips I've seen it's so ehh as a show. Watching it at night with friends sounds so much more fun.
As a show its horrible. Shitty cheap canadian animation. Boring and uninteresting character designs/villains. Uninteresting storys. The idea of the shows the only actually interesting part and is totally wasted.
they were always my favorite episodes (for absolutely NO REASON whatsoever)
the SLARPG music kicking in near the 2 minute mark made me instantly sub
very good vibeo 7/5
little spoiler for an upcoming video that maaaay be about slarpg…
@@goIdy REAL SHIT
looking forward to it
Shezow was something else, pretty sure the creator confirmed that the aunt was killed.
The genderbend Johnny Test eps I go to are the one where the gang literally dimension travels to “everyone but their genders are flipped and the two Dukeys and two Johnnys somehow fall in love with each other” ep and the ep where Crossdressing Johnny somehow commands the whole Girl Power Sisterhood for the climax.
Never forget the ep where Bubbles infiltrated the Rowdyruff Boys, and they made her do a lot of boy stuff as the hazing.
And then she just straight-up eats a roach, full-view of the bug, and the look of disgust changes to “It tastes like *chicken!* :D” and I think Blossom and Buttercup went like “EWWWWW” and visibly cringed.
She is a QUEEN!
I love the editing. My jaw kinda dropped when I saw the channels with the episodes and I realized what it was. So creative and well executed
The only gender bending episode I remember people liking was star vs the forces of evil where marco disguised as a woman to get into the all girls school. I remember not thinking much of it, but have since seen SO much fanart of it so it might be worth a rewatch
And if you wanna get into the "scary adult cartoons" futurama has a couple gender bending episodes (in both the fox era and the much worse comedy central era) so those might be worth a look but I suspect they'd get pretty low on the gendometer, as one episode was just the whole "trans girls in sports" bit which was never funny and the other was just a blanket "gender is meaningless in space" or something so it didn't really say anything
Also I think it's kind of a funny point that you bring up how most of these episodes are about cis people experiencing gender dysphoria because that's pretty much what it was on a fundamental level. Butch imagined "man it sure would suck if I suddenly turned into a girl when I was a kid... Hey! That should be an episode!" On the other hand a lot of it was just other shows adapting the trope
your mention of star vs the forces of evil just reminded me that like 3-4 years ago my pfp on this very channel was of marco from that episode...
OMG SVTFOE MENTIONED!!!!!!
in one of the episode storyboards where marco's posing some of the princess turdina doll and one of the dolls was going to have a dress with the trans flag colors but disney made them change it
It’s so surreal to realize that most of these episodes were close to core memories. The egg cracks more and more with amazing videos from amazing creators like you ❤
I'd like you to know this... Two weeks ago, after getting this video in my recommended, I watched "I Saw the TV Glow" because of your warning.
I've learned things about myself. I'll leave it at that.
I don’t even have Adblock and there wasn’t a midroll, the awkward silence was golden
when i was a kid, i never saw myself as a "girl". i was always just a kid. the real manipulation of gender came from my family & further solidified the belief that i wasn't meant to be a girl, but that i was forced to be one. discovering that I was trans was so freeing yet frightening. the world is so cruel to us when all we ever wanna be is ourselves.
"don't watch I saw the tv glow" too late, already did and I'm having the biggest existential crisis of my life.
I'm not trans but this is very insightful
I know it's not a show that aired for real, but Magic Mirror from Eddsworld is one of my favorite Gender Bending episodes even though it's kind of bland, but it still had a huge impact on me as a kid
In 2015 when I was in 5th grade, I was 11 years old and I stole a comic from school. The "main episode" on the comic was about Mônica (a girl) wishing to and turning into a boy and the things that happened after that.
Fast forward to around 2017 and I start discovering I'm not quite what you'd call cis.
Not sure why, but having stolen it feels more meaningful to me than if I had bought it or if it was an episode I watched on TV.
I guess the supposed "risk" associated with stealing combined forces with something that had been on the back of my mind even before that to make the most perfect "wake the fuck up" irony I have experienced in my life.
In the head of an 11 eleven year old I had just commited a "serious" crime that is frowned upon to satisfy a curiosity/need in my subconscious.
Eu nunca achei que Turma da Mônica ia estimular alguém a explorar seu gênero. Eu só ficava rindo dos planos desnecessariamente complexos do Cebolinha.
@@Tavares0709 eu já li todos os gibis de 3 ou 4 salas de aula diferentes kkkkkk
I remember LOVING the cartoon grojband, and low-key being obsessed with the female versions of grojband, "the newmans"
Literally 10/10 genderbend plot love it
Magical Boy is a graphic novel that takes the concept of SheZow and makes it good. Max is a trans masc that comes from a family of magical girls, and his journey is about social transition and beating up demons
omg i used to love SheZow. I dont remember a lot of the episodes, but i remember adoring it
I think that was the only KND episode I ever saw, but I had dreams about it for literally months! Then I completely forgot about it until seeing this.
as someone who has watched all of shezow, you seriously missed out on an incredibly fun-bad show
yea looking at the reviews and synopses of later episodes i realize i did not give it a fair chance, but im glad i was able to remind so many people of it
@@goIdy
Maybe this calls for a future video with Shezow at the forefront (?
Oh this is good, so glad to find you on my recommended. I love how indepth this is but not too much, the main thing I always care about is the person making this video in the first place.
Tell me all your biases! Just watch what you want and share your thoughts! This gave me all that and more because this editing is just my cup of tea.
I also prefer the speaking speed in this video, I don't know why but for me I kinda want things fast when watching something. That's what the playbackspeed function is for so whichever speed you want in your future videos, go right ahead! Also the midroll commercial break is pretty funny and I didn't mind it because it was between segments and let me know I'm halfway through this nostalgic video.
Body Swap is different for sure! If you ever want to dive into that topic though, I'd definitely watch it. Either way, make what you want and awesome work! I've only seen the Fairly Odd Parents, Rowdy Ruff Boys and Fiona and Cake episodes so thank you for enduring Johnny Test and for letting me know about a crazy Kids Next Door episode I missed!
I’ve never loved someone planning for a mid roll more! And a Persona reference? Heck yeah!
There are a series revolving gender bending as a whole, Ranma 1/2! It was a 30 years old manga and is a super popular anime back then. You're in luck as the remake just got announced
Oooh I used to be obsessed with SheZow when it was coming out
I feel like the secret identity thing was used more for character/family drama between Guy & Kelly (with Kelly being a SheZow fan & believing she deserved the ring more than him. & Guy having to pretend to be SheZow (as in, their Aunt. Like pretending that she didn't die & they're the same person) but barely knowing anything about her. At least I remember it being a thing, they might have told everyone they weren't the same eventually, it's been years since I've seen this show).
Honestly I find the idea of a superhero that appears immortal because their secret identity keeps getting passed on after they die & the general public doesn't catch on very interesting. (It was probably inspired by how Green Lantern rings work. & Also there's some obvious inspiration from Captain Marvel/Shazam, which is about a boy that becomes a grown man when he transforms, who's also one of my favorite superheroes (& severely underrated I think because he's clearly meant for child target audience but they don't use him like that, instead obsessing over how they can make him less powerful than Superman))
Ok but like... now I just want to do a gender swap episode that makes one of the characters realize that they want to be the opposite gender rather than the one they were assigned at birth
too loud
>Trans girl asks me to disable adblock for the midroll.
>I do it.
>I get an ad for an adblocker.
brilliant
Adventure time is my favorite show ever and it did the best on the gendometer? I have a bad feeling about the next co2goldy video....
i remember that all these episodes would never leave my head as a kid. like i was so obsessed with them in a way i couldn't yet understand or explain
GOD i was NOT expecting to see SheZow on here LOL, I watched it on Netflix once or twice and thought it was pretty cool. I was also, maybe, 9? 10? Lmao. It's one of those things that while I would never get into it now, it'll always hold a somewhat special place in my heart. Lololol
One of the most impactful media I remember of this topic was a Webcomic called The Wotch, a witch who specializes in genderbend. She would often genderbend her friends for various purposes and over time Jason got really comfortable with it, sometimes asking to be changed into Sonja for specific things. He was like 'dude, when I'm Jason, call me a guy, when I'm Sonja, call me a woman, regardless of my sex, I'm still me, your friend you've always known.' That comic really set a foundation for accepting myself later when I realized my own journey I'd been on since I was a child.