Fifth Floor Common Room, Sunday evening

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After getting back from Colorado, Bruce got some dinner from Ching Tai. Unfortunately, they gave way too much food, so he set up in the common room. If people were hungry, they could take. He could have done that and gone to his room with his food, but he figured that would prevent him from seeing how other people were reacting to the gender switch. And really, his want to be left alone was easily overruled by his curiosity.

While he was in the common room, though, he wasn't touching the TV. It would end up stuck on the Style Network or something if he did. He could deal with being a girl, but that was asking too much.

[OOC: Open like a gender-neutral common room.]

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"The real important thing is that you're able to say that without freaking out," Bruce said. "Some people can't adjust to the idea that it's something they should get used to."

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"Oh, there was a fair amount of 'freaking out' when I awoke this morning," William confessed. "This transformation in particular would prove quite troubling to almost anyone from my own era, I think."

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"Even more than being a dog?" Bruce asked. "I could see either one being pretty upsetting, really."

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"Perhaps," William said. "But most people- mostly of the male persuasion, I'll admit- have certain foolish perceptions of gender and intelligence. I think waking up female would shatter those quite thoroughly."

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"Wouldn't they justify it by stating that their brains are still male regardless of what the body is?" Bruce mused. "Not that I agree by any stretch, but it seems like the obvious argument."

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"They might try," William replied. "But there are enough fallacies in the original argument that that particular justification would not hold up, I think, without re-examining the prejudices in question."