I hate to necro a thread, but I found this on a websearch, and I wanted to say much a similar thing about making good female characters through genderswapping. It's a really, really good strategy for writing female characters and making a-typical female characters, and I've used it quite a bit...
Yeah, but that's kind of the point of increasing representation, getting out of that mindset that "straight, white, cismale" is the default and everything else is just a deviation from that; and making it so that we can have female; gay or nonwhite characters "just cause" rather than as a...
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