Earlier i was reading a 'gender bender' manga, and i for one thought it was quite good with a few minor exceptions.

The Girl was a rude, obnoxious slob who was quick anger and just as quick to fight.

the Guy was nice and polite, almost always smiling beautifully. Quite the homemaker, good at cooking, cleaning and sewing.

Then they switched bodies...

They eventually they started falling into romances suited for their new genders, this started to rub a LOT of the readers wrong. The forum for the manga became full of people bashing and hating the story. Some people were confused about "how could a guy ever fall in love with another guy just because suddenly he turns into a chick?"

Finally, this is what i wrote....

"I've read a lot of complaints about this manga, or people who just dont understand...

but im begining to think that the point to this was that the two people were transgendered to begin with. I think too many people look at gender as if it was set in stone.. you have a wang* or you dont.

But that's only physical, we are human and a lot more complex than that. No one is purely Evil, and no one is Purely good. I think the same applies to gender. It is on a sliding scale, and only when the scale tips too far in what is socially considered the wrong direction do we have a problem.

this seems to be the case with our two protagonists. The author is simply imagining "what if suddenly the outside matched the inside? and how would they react?"

all too often society tries to force the triangle block through the round hole, and like the child it is, gets frusterated and mad at the block for not fitting into what they think it should."

I can only hope that helps them understand even a little, but i'll not hold my breath. It did seem to change the direction of the conversation though, i'll have to wait a few days (maybe even weeks) to see how the post fares.