Girlpeen
| Tropes and genres | |
|---|---|
| Synonym(s) | g!p, Girl Penis |
| Related tropes/genres | boypussy |
| See also | Genderfuck, Transfic, Fempreg |
| Related articles on Fanlore. | |
Girlpeen is a term that originated in Glee fandom for AU fanfic in which a female character has a penis. The trope has spread to other fandoms as well, most notably The 100.
This trope is different from genderswap, always-a-boy, and transfic in that the g!p character is presented as a cisgender woman who just happens to have a penis. However, many fans still view the girlpeen trope as offensive fetishizing of trans women:
if you get off to G!P works and wouldn’t be willing or capable of dating and wholly loving trans women and intersex women, then you’re 100% fetishizing us, and are going to remain deeply transmisogynistic and intersexist until that changes. Don’t put us in your F/F stories, or read those stories, unless you’d be happy to get into romantic relationships with us. Don’t use fantasies of us for sex unless you’d be happy to have sex with us. It’s literally that simple. We’re worth more than being fetishists’ disposable sex toys. We deserve to be humanized, because we’re real human fucking beings.
Not that I’d particularly trust anyone who reads/writes g!p works to be safe for trans and intersex women to date, but it’d at least be a start to cutting down on how fetishized we are.[1]
Girlpeen is most common in F/F works. It may also appear in M/F, but rarely in conjunction with boypussy.
Trope Analysis
Hannah Ellison, in a 2013 study of the Glee Kink Meme stated that "G!P is not about concepts of sexuality but rather about power and agency [...] owning a penis is viewed as a default statement of dominance. Of course there are exceptions, such as works where the G!P owning female is submissive, but they are rare." Ellison found that in the Glee kinkmeme stories, the characters most often written with girl!penis are Quinn Fabray and Santana Lopez, canonically "aggressive characters who are deeply emotionally troubled." She goes on to say :
The G!P phallus is all about power; power that was sublimated through notions of the “mean girl” is translated and instead sublimated through literalised hyper-masculinity. Instead of dealing with the stigma attached to being powerful women, as they do in canon, they deal with, and are ultimately pleasured because of, a physical rationalisation for their perceived masculine behaviour.[2]
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References
- ^ Maybe I’m a masochist for checking, but there’s a clexa kink survey going around., tumblr post by thedeadflag, April 30 2016. Archived from the original on Jan 3, 2023.
- ^ Submissives, Nekos and Futanaris: a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Glee Kink Meme. May 2013. Hannah Ellison.