that's fangirls for you. It's very common for yaoifangirls to turn one of the male characters into a woman, and when they get called on the fact that it's a thinly veiled yaoi couple, the yaoi fans say one is a woman, so it's ok
I think most of the NarukoxSasuke artists are either yaoi fangirls or guys that hate the yaoi pairing, so they use Naruko as an excuse also. Its both ways on the spectrum.
@dandan: err what? I think you're talking about closet yaoifans; yaoifangirls and fujoshi don't give a rat's ass about making the boys into women (in fact that's sounds heretic), after all yaoi is malexmale hot action. So let's leave the frigging women out of it, alright?
I look beyond it because I love sasunaru. Fact is that's Naruto, period. Whether a fan feels comfortable with one sex or the other that's not this pairing's problem.
just... hot, isn't it? I don't think we need to do some stupid comparision between yaoi fans and genderbender fans, because it's just worthless. They don't have anything in common, though.