You may disagree with me, or even be upset me for saying this, but what I am hearing from this meta is "women are not awesome, therefore I prefer to write or read about men-as-women in order to have actual awesome characters."

Which is absolutely not what I meant at all, but I do see your point. In focusing the post on male-to-female genderswap, I did denigrate existing female characters, and it was thoughtless of me to not further explore this flipside of genderswap.

I'm not sure if you got the vibe of the female characters not being cool enough from my post, or were talking about the general tendency of genderswap, but I do love those female characters and enjoy writing and reading fic that focuses on and explores their characters further than the show already has.

I don't think genderswap is necessarily written in order to shut canon women out of the narrative - it certainly isn't why I write it or read it - but given the nature of certain fandoms such as Supernatural that tend to actively dislike female characters, I can see that this might be a motive.

What I meant to focus on was the exploration of gender roles that genderswap entails, and in making this post I was a blinkered by my liking for this aspect of male-to-female genderswap to the point where I failed to explore the uglier side, and I really do apologize for this.

I'm not upset at all, in fact, I'm glad you commented with this, because it's made me look closer at my own presumptions here.