kerrsutherland We can agree to disagree on that one. In every iteration that I've seen it, including a long time membership to the RR Google group, the hook of a Role Reversal story has to do with a shift in the power dynamic. In your story, a slave owner spanks their slave while the daughter is forced to watch. That's a linear power dynamic, not a reversed one. There might be some gray area if the daughter had been the one to report her mother for punishment, but in your story the daughter is still in the same position of power at the end as she was in the beginning; bottom of the totem pole.
For a thought experiment, let's re-reverse your story. The mother is forced by her slave owner to watch her daughter punished for the mother's crime.
Nothing changes. Same world, same dynamic. Not a reversed dynamic or role. |