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Main Gender Flip Discussion
This trope is about gendered roles (i.e., a character played as the opposite sex), not "gender roles" (e.g., where men and women switch social functions in some fashion.)
These examples don't pertain to Gender Flip, but are pretty good examples of something - some might fit Pink Boy Blue Girl, for instance. So I moved them to Discussion in case anyone wants to do something with them.
- One issue of the old Weird Science comic featured an America where gender roles were switched, ostensibly after a woman took the presidency and then influenced big business. While the story could have had potential, it was undermined by being very heavy-handed; rather than having, for instance, the women use female viewpoints and opinions in their new social positions, they assume roles and behaviors almost identical to males; men become meek, retiring 'househusbands', while working women kick back at the strip bar (with rather unattractive male strippers), and so on. The only aversions made are usually wholly inappropriate, such as a group of female miners forming a strike for the right to have a powder room (to fix their makeup) on each level of the mine. The story ends with the male narrator, in a hospital, rushed off to the Paternity Ward...
- An episode of Sliders had the same idea, and carried it off reasonably well. Women, having been in charge for generations, have become self-indulgent and arrogant in more or less the same way as extremely patriarchal men, but people there also have slightly different ideals and priorities than people in our own world. The female politician Arturo ends up running against in an election believes that men are unfit for positions of power because they aren't as good at cooperation and peaceful negotiation as women, and Arturo's attempt to throw the election by pretending that a debate has hurt his feelings (which he assumes will make the voters regard him as being overly sensitive) instead causes him to win, because he comes off as human and relatable.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation did something similar. The Enterprise visited a planet where the women ran the show and the men were in subservient positions. The women acted as stereotypical men and vice versa. The only really interesting thing to note is that the men actually did look smaller and frailer and the women looked bigger and tougher than is typical.
- It also helped that the women dressed like samurai while the men dressed like ballet dancers.
- Order Of The Stick; Lampshaded in this strip
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- Kim Possible has female Kim playing the competent, repressed, easily-embarrassed, uncertain hero in need of reassurance; and male Ron playing the intuitive, accepting, undiscriminating, adoring, clumsy 'girl friday', who suffers clothing damage regularly.
- Monsters Vs Aliens features a parody of the cliche old B-movie scene where two teenagers pull into "Lover's Lane" only to stumble across supernatural weirdness, with the gender roles reversed: the girl makes the first move and wants to investigate the crashed alien ship, while the guy is nervous about Their First Time, chickens out, and twists his ankle (read: practically snaps it off).