Gender-Restricted Ability/Playing With

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    Basic Trope: You can only use a particular skill if you are a particular gender.

    • Straight: Alice can cast healing magic. Bob can't.
    • Exaggerated: Alice can cast ALL forms of magic. Bob can't even learn one.
    • Downplayed: Alice can cast healing magic. Bob can't, so he learn medical treatment instead.
      • Both can use magic, but only women can use healing ones.
    • Justified:
    • Inverted:
    • Subverted: Bob managed to learn healing magic
    • Double Subverted: .....but he's called gay for it.
    • Parodied: Alice can cast spells. Bob can't. Said spells actually do more harm than good.
    • Deconstructed:
    • Reconstructed:
    • Zig Zagged:
    • Averted: Both can use magic, but each gender will learn a different set of spells.
    • Enforced:
    • Lampshaded:
    • Invoked: A witch casts a spell such that men cannot learn them.
    • Exploited:
    • Defied: A witch fixed the magic system so that men can learn them as well.
    • Discussed:
    • Conversed: "Oh, hey, the setting is constructed so nobody can do everything."
    • Played For Laughs: Alice finds herself in a Sweet Polly Oliver situation. For some inadequately-explained reason, "Alex" cannot cast healing spells.
    • Played For Drama:
    • Plotted A Perfectly Good Waste:
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