Seriously? It's just a story.

As y'all know I'm fairly active in the Hawaii Five-0 fandom, this means I read lots of stories based on the new series. And I love my shiny new fandom. A lot. Mostly because it allows me to explore a culture I've been interested in for some time. This, however, also means that there are a fuck ton of tropes that get explored, a lot. One of these is that a if a person is pissed off enough they can 'curse' the person who angered them and 'gender bend' them by turning them into whichever gender they are not (as in Danny, Steve and Chin become female and Kono becomes male).

I just read one that I found to be spot on in characterization. Danny is the one 'cursed' into becoming female and he freaks out, a lot. And while he is now physically female, mentally and emotionally he's still male and so the author uses the male pronouns.

I don't usually read comments, unless I have a question about a story and want to see if maybe someone else did as well so that the author doesn't end up answering the same question twice.

The first comment is from someone whose opinion I respect a great deal. Their reaction wasn't surprising, this person is all about doing away with elitist and ablest thinking. Several of the comments are a 'conversation' between this person and someone who is not the author.

Some time ago I mentioned how this reaction annoys me. It's just a story! Behind the cut is the 'comment conversation' between these two people.( In case you want to skip it )