Talk:Alp/@comment-25547106-20151020143349/@comment-26097222-20151118220159

The creator of MGE holds a view of male homosexuals and crossdressers that is common to his culture but has very little basis in actual human psychology. In the belief system, men are homosexual because they want to be women. Women are homosexual because they have not yet met the penis that can cure them and turn them straight (but eventually will because men are just that awesome). Crossdressers envy the gender they dress as and want to be that gender, no exceptions. In reality, homosexuals are exactly that -- attracted to their own gender. No more, no less. Crossdressers just like a particular style or feel more comfortable in certain styles -- even in the extreme cases, there are often reasons other than gender dysphoria. Really, the only real life people who would go Alp if stuck in that world are those with gender dysphoria. Even then, it would take more than a 50% preference for femaleness to turn a gender dysphoric male into an Alp. Human psychology is like an ungodly mess of interrelated slider bars, we have very few toggle switches. If the tiniest desire to be female or the tiniest attraction to other men made a man into an Alp, Alps would outnumber Incubi. If you have ever had a male friend or been able to successfully dress yourself well enough that women don't recoil from your looks in horror, you too would become an Alp going by the creator's beliefs on the the matter. But since that doesn't happen in canon, either the humans of that world are functionally a different species than we are, or it takes more than a fleeting desire to go Alp. There is no canon way for the opposite to occur -- human woman into Incubus -- but women also experience gender dysphoria, and if the setting weren't the result of a magical mistake by a near-divine level entity, there would likely be accomodation for that too.