Okay, so I just commented in a friend's journal about the social differences in gender dynamics. I won't go into great detail since it was a personal post. Not locked or anything, but still. But I can quote a bit from my response without giving anything away:

I've often wondered why it's considered more socially wrong for a 24-year old woman to be with a 17-year old boy than for a 24-year old man to be with a 17-year old girl. Cause, hey, that's considered romantic. *cough* Buffy/Angel *cough* What would people think if instead of Buffy the Vampire Slayer it was Xander the Vampire Slayer. And the mysterious vampire in the shadows would be Darla. Xander/Darla 4eva!!!!! Their love is so pure!!!!! Pitapat my heart. Yeah, right, like that would ever make it on TV. *snickers*

Now before all the B/A shippers on my list come and smack me upside the head (and probably rightfully so), let me just say that I'm a B/A/S shipper. My OT3. Eleventy-one and all that. So I believe in B/A, I ship them, just, you know, with a Spike in the middle, on the side, on the bottom, cherry on top, and so on. But I also ship S/B with an Angel in the middle yadda yadda. And you *know* I ship A/S. Come on, you gotta know that. It's all fluid dynamics. Like a lava lamp. You can stare at it for hours...*gets munchies*

But I'm getting off the subject here which is gender dynamics and roles. Which are *not* directly translatable. They're just not.

( Xander the Vampire Slayer and Darla the Series, an odd synopsis and ramblings )

See? Not directly translatable. Doesn't work, does it?