They have a strand of lights with a male and a female end, and they have strung them incorrectly in some difficult to change way so that the female end is near

They have a strand of lights with a male and a female end, and they have strung them incorrectly in some difficult to change way so that the female end is near the outlet, and they don't want to move them. or the have a bunch of lights daisy chained together and have run one string backwards.