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Susan Davis: In Victor/Victoria, Julie Andrews plays a down-on-her-luck soprano who takes a job as a female impersonator. That's right, a man pretending to be a woman on-stage is actually a woman. The only times Victoria needs to really act are during off-stage moments, and in these she mostly just sits still. This isn't really an example of the trope, though it could kinda sorta be an inversion of it if you squint at it funny.
Kizor: The same happened in the movie Transamerica, only moreso.
Looking at the distinct lack of Distaff Counterpart examples for Different for Girls (as well as the overwhelming prevalence of male-to-female examples in Gender Bender and Mandys Lawof Anime Gender Bending) it's obvious that men have a fascination with the female body that women don't reciprocate. Want proof? Listen John Meyer's song "Your body is a Wonderland". Now imagine a woman singing it about a man.
grendelkhan: Removed "She gradually realised that, far from becoming a member of a superior privileged caste, life for men actually sucks pretty bad." from the bit about Self-Made Man, and rewrote it. Vincent doesn't claim that men don't have privilege; her observations are more interesting and subtle than that.
