I will say that the Genderbenders where the character is rebuilt from the ground up (i.e.: born as an XX instead onf an XY) are a hell of a lot more tolerable.
After all, a lot of us got used to the idea of woman!Starbuck (hawtness aside, they just pull it off so well).
Indeed, the GB's where the hapless guy is simply thrown to the wolves as a female tend to rub me the wrong way, unless they're done just right. I used
to keep up with a webcomic that looks that this in detail, called Misfile. It is about a boy, loves racing cars (to the point where he was working on a major
experiment) who's files in Heaven get misfiled as a 'female'. Ooops. Now he deals with all sorts of things from mundane (periods, mood swings,
underwear) to the supernatural (meddling angels, vengeful spirits), and a few things he never expected to deal with (attraction to women as a woman).
Not only does the author throw him into the role as a female (we never see him as a male in the begining) we also see how his life was different as a girl. For
example, as a boy he never had any contact with his estranged mother, however as a girl she broke down and wrote a heart wrending letter that brought the
mother back into her life.
So there are a few exceptions - but they are indeed exceptional. Personaly, I think that Sturgeon's Law applies to Gender Benders in a manner so extreme
that it surpasses the 90% qualifier.
After all, a lot of us got used to the idea of woman!Starbuck (hawtness aside, they just pull it off so well).
Indeed, the GB's where the hapless guy is simply thrown to the wolves as a female tend to rub me the wrong way, unless they're done just right. I used
to keep up with a webcomic that looks that this in detail, called Misfile. It is about a boy, loves racing cars (to the point where he was working on a major
experiment) who's files in Heaven get misfiled as a 'female'. Ooops. Now he deals with all sorts of things from mundane (periods, mood swings,
underwear) to the supernatural (meddling angels, vengeful spirits), and a few things he never expected to deal with (attraction to women as a woman).
Not only does the author throw him into the role as a female (we never see him as a male in the begining) we also see how his life was different as a girl. For
example, as a boy he never had any contact with his estranged mother, however as a girl she broke down and wrote a heart wrending letter that brought the
mother back into her life.
So there are a few exceptions - but they are indeed exceptional. Personaly, I think that Sturgeon's Law applies to Gender Benders in a manner so extreme
that it surpasses the 90% qualifier.