Gender-Swapping Grammar Lessons

k-mediumA Chrome app called Jailbreak the Patriarchy switches gendered words and makes for an eye-opening experience.

This app has inspired me to go a little further to see how the world looks when gender changes. So I’ve spiced it up by changing gendered names, etc., too.


I kissed a boy and I liked it,
the taste of his cherry chapstick.
I kissed a boy just to try it,
I hope my girlfriend don’t mind it.
It felt so wrong,
it felt so right.
Don’t mean I’m in love tonight.
I kissed a boy and I liked it.

Or how about this headline:








Jezebel also did a little gender-swapping on some mainstream media. Here’s a Times articleon evangelical Christianity in Africa:






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Posted on September 9, 2013, in feminism, gender, psychology, sexism, women and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 15 Comments.

  1. Kind of amusing to hear it in reverse if a woman was singing the song and those lyrics used. I think it would turn peoples heads, and raise eyebrows ha. Not because it’s about sex or sexual, etc, because while not as much as men; there have been songs from women in rap, r & b and even pop songs with women rapping or singing about sex. Some lyrics vulgar, explicit, etc, so it’s not so much that. But with all the sex songs and explicit lyrics from previous songs by women like that, I don’t think there’s ever been a rap song, or other songs by a woman where the lyrics are sexually aggressive. For example, there’s the s and m song that came out a year ago by rihanna I think, but its more so about her being tied up and submitting and bondage, kink like sex and not I’m simply going to f*** your brains out sex lyrics, which is more often apparently a male thing, or atleast openly.

  2. How about this one. It would probably be pretty funny. But the song by wu tang clan wait (the whisper song) and if it was reversed.

    “Hey how you doin papa? lemme whisper in your ear
    Tell you sumthing that you might like to hear
    You got a sexy ass body and your ass look hard
    Mind if I touch it? and see if its hard
    Naw I’m jus playin’ unless you say I can
    And im known to be a real nasty woman”……

    “Switch the positions and ready to get down to business
    So you can see what you’ve been missin’
    You might had some but you never had none like this
    Just wait til you see my clit”

    “Ay bitch! wait til you see my clit
    Wait til you see my clit
    Ay bitch! wait til you see my clit
    Imma beat dat dick up”

    “Like BAM, BAM, BAm……..”

    “Beat da dick up, beat da dick up….”

  3. Haha, these are great, really good for loosening assumed gender roles and shaking up the way we think 🙂

    Thanks for sharing!


  4. This post made me smile, because more than 20 years ago, my father came up with this. I think he enjoyed the absurdity of the image:

    Under the spreading chestnut tree,
    The village smithy stands.
    The smith, a mighty woman is she,
    With large and sinewy hands,
    And the muscles of her brawny arms,
    Are strong as iron bands.

    I am sure that Wilhelmina Wordsworth is laughing, somewhere.


  5. Amazing how a simple swap opens our eyes to a whole new world. Would love to have the English canon jailbroken. {{{hugs]}} Kozo

  6. Georgia, I thought you would find this interesting. Someone wrote a response to the FYI (If you’re a teenage boy) post that went viral recently. They took the letter and gender swapped it.

  7. I have thought similar things about certain songs, most notably Pink’s “Don’t Leave Me”. Sure, it’s a catchy tune and a popular request…but if you really listen to the lyrics it’s about someone (probably a man) who is about to leave the female singer because of her abuse of him. “I’ve never been this nasty”, “You’re my perfect punching bag”, “I promise (in reference to never doing it again)”.

    If these lyrics were sung by a male singer, would the song have even made it onto the radio, much less to the top of the charts? Something to think about…

  8. This is absolutely fascinating. Sometimes the simplest examples make the strongest point!

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