Since Alex was wondering how reality might have changed and really wanted to find out, she decided to take a little look at some articles about world history and culture. What she read surprised her a lot.
According to Christian myth, the first human was Eve, a woman, and God (who was now called She rather than He) took her rib and made the first man, Adam. Adam had been said to take the fruit of knowledge from the serpent that led to humans being cast out of the Garden of Eden, and because of that many societies had considered men the inferior sex. They tried to biologically justify this by saying that men were more brutish, were less able to control their sexual urges, and played no role in having children once sex had taken place. Fortunately in the last century or so a movement called masculism had taken off pushing for equality of the genders and had made a lot of progress, but there was still a lot of casual sexism about.
Now Alex was really curious- did that mean everyone who had been a man in the past was now a woman and everyone who had been a woman a man? Yes, as it turned out. She looked it up and briefly disappeared down a rabbit hole, as she learned about historic figures like the Roman Empress Julia Caesar; the Norman Queen Wilma the Conqueror; Henrietta VIII, who had six husbands and broke British ties with the Catholic Church because they tried to prevent her divorcing Carlos of Aragon; Georgia Washington, the first American President; Narcisse Bonaparte, the Emperor of France who conquered much of Europe; King Victor, the British king for most of the 19th century; Abigail Lincoln, who led the US to victory in its Civil War and abolished slavery; the Second World War leaders Adolpha Hitler, Wilma Churchill and Josephine Stalin; June F. Kennedy, the US President who was famously assassinated in Dallas; Martin Thatcher, the first man elected British Prime Minister (and who hadn't been any more of a masculist than his female counterpart had been a feminist); and King Elliot II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history and one of the longest-reigning in the world.
No way, Alex thought to herself. There's no way everything's totally swapped around like this. She pinched herself- yep, this was real. And her body was definitely female. She had almost forgotten that part for a little while. Another idea came to her- did this apply to fiction too? She looked up some more stuff, and found out about, amongst other things, the detective stories of Shailene Holmes; Magic Man, one of the first and most famous male superheroes; Jane Bond, the famous fictional secret agent who often sexually harassed scantily-clad men in her earlier films; Maria, the famous plumber mascot of the Maria Sisters video games; Zelda, the mute and brave protagonist of the Legend of Link series; and lots of internet-dwellers being furious over the first man cast to play the Doctor in Doctor Who and the reboot of He-Man giving him a less revealing costume.
Alex decided that was a good point to stop looking into this stuff, and put the phone down before looking at her body again. She felt like it'd be fun to play with herself, and wondered whether her sexuality had changed along with her body...