an awesome thing

Okay, fellow Star Trek geeks, I have a good one for you - check this out. Sometimes (not very often, but it happens) genderswap seems to me to be mostly an excuse to draw (or show) even more cheesecake than the original canon has, but in this case, not so much. In this case it's an excuse to show a female (new!canon) Kirk who is exactly what the male one is, and a female Pine who is exactly what the male one is, too, thereby showing up the standards of what women can and cannot be shown doing in movies and TV.

I grant you, if they'd done this, the battle would have been sexed up like nobody's business, and I'd probably dislike female Kirk about as much as I dislike male Kirk. But if it was done well (as in, not a Charlie's Angels cheap wank-fest for the boys with faux grrl power to appease a couple women who can't tell the difference between empowerment and sex symbols masquerading as empowerment), it would still be kind of bad-ass. And this video gives a taste.

Check out all of the Rule 63 Rules Tumblr for more awesome genswitch, and thanks to miss_arel for the tip!

And now I'm back to pretending to write, since I spent most of my evening watching Chuck, drinking wine, and playing "Plants vs. Zombies." How evil are the bungee bastards? Not what I'd planned to do with my Sunday night, but I can't say I regret a minute of it. ♥