Noun: "(informal) a situation in which something or someone is revealed to be other than assumed/expected to be, particularly with regard to gender identity"edit
1998, Johannes Birringer, Media & Performance: Along the Border, John Hopkins University Press (1998), →ISBN, page 129:
The disconcerting side of the mainstreaming of camp's drag aesthetic is the further denial and dislocation of the real psychic and social anxieties written into the male-as-female crying games and, more ambiguously and sadistically, into into the excessive male-as-male and female-as-female masquerades.
2002, David Payton, I Dreamed I Killed Osama Bin Laden, Trafford (2002), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
Man, what a way to pop a balloon full of promise! It was like waiting to be with the girl of your dreams and you end up in the Crying Game.
2004, "Hands on Microsoft's Windows Media Player 10", Maximum PC, September 2004, page 15:
We copped a feel of the technical beta of Microsoft's Windows Media Player 10, and beneath the slick new interface we found a Crying Game-scale surprise that has the potential to lure insatiable music grazers away from iTunes (which has now sold more than 100 million tracks).
