Gender-Restricted Ability/WMG

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 spell. Bob can't. Said spell 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:
• Played For Laughs:
• Played For Drama:
• Plotted A Good Waste:

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