I think women are still more oppressed in other ways. If a women had a beard or any body hairy legs going down the street...yeah, but it's roughly the same principle, though perhaps to a lesser extent. Also there's wage differences/job availability, what's expected of women in the home, social expectations (drinking alcohol being an example, a women getting drunk would be frowned apon more than a man doing the same). Also, men acting as women/women acting as men isn't the only form of oppression, there's other sexist views attached to women. Crying like a little girl comes from the female gender in the first place, obviously they're not thought of especially highly for that to be an insult. Lesbianism seems to be more of a big, bad thing than being gay too, maybe not from our point of view, but on the whole when you think about it. Also, women are heavily oppressed in religion, with no good reason whatsoever. Why can't women be priests? No good reason is given, despite the virgin Mary being the mother of freakin' God, here. I'll never understand those silly Catholics and their rather moronic ideals.
Certainly in the one example of men acting as women, they get alot more grief than women acting as men. Maybe it's something to do with the man/woman hierarchy (a women acting as a 'superior' male is more acceptable than a man acting as an 'inferior' female?), but I dunno.
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