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Aella
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The king story is one where he wears a crown, where he tells people what to do, where people try to kill him sometimes, where he's succeeded by his children. The story is defined by invisible rules of society - everyone agrees he should wear a crown, and tell people what to do.-
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Aella
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This has a lot of overlap onto personality traits - maybe the king is vain, or commanding, or confident, or entitled. But those personality traits seem maybe like things that support or are an outgrowing of his role as king; traits that enable him to fulfill the story better.
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Aella
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I guess this depends on what you mean by your question, but personality traits feel like building blocks to a story; they are (usually?) not the story itself, they are a means by which the story is brought to life
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Aella
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At least in this frame, an aggressive woman is taking on traits from the male story; she is *deviating* from her story, which is why we consider an aggressive woman to be doing something weird with gender. I think we're generally very tolerant of story deviations, but we-
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Aella
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still frame it *as a story deviation*; the story is the background by which we understand how people act. Are they being a proper King, or a wimpy King? I don't think I understand a lot of the modern discourse around gender, I suspect a lot of it is sloppy and inconsistent.
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