It’s crazy to me that there’s people who are into femboys but extremely not ok with trans women.
If i had to guess, i'd say that a minority of these people may actually be transphobic gay men or straight women who can't handle their sex object being a girl, but most of the people posting that kind of shit do not care about the franchise or the character at all and just see a convenient opportunity to misgender her and engage in culture war bs. it's chuds, it's just a brainless mass of reflexive edgelords looking for opportunities to be sadist, they do not have opinions that aren't purely instrumental and bad faith.
There's a fair amount of channer types who are into femboys just because of the taboo, and the fact that anime femboys are often drawn indistinguishable from women. The idea that it's "wrong" is part of the appeal to them, and they hate it when people are proud/unashamed of themselves because it ruins it for them. Like they hate LGBT people, but for them, the defining trait of being gay isn't being attracted to the same gender, but not being ashamed of it.
That makes the most sense to me. I know there are extremely weird 4chan creatures who have developed a strange new sexuality where they're gay for femme men but only if they dress like teenage girls but that's somehow not gay and they're actually heterosexual and then they go on with like twenty more pages of bullshit that ultimately just comes out to "I have nine kinds of phobic and my sense of self is totally fractured and incoherent".
If i had to guess, i'd say that a minority of these people may actually be transphobic gay men or straight women who can't handle their sex object being a girl, but most of the people posting that kind of shit do not care about the franchise or the character at all and just see a convenient opportunity to misgender her and engage in culture war bs. it's chuds, it's just a brainless mass of reflexive edgelords looking for opportunities to be sadist, they do not have opinions that aren't purely instrumental and bad faith.
There's a fair amount of channer types who are into femboys just because of the taboo, and the fact that anime femboys are often drawn indistinguishable from women. The idea that it's "wrong" is part of the appeal to them, and they hate it when people are proud/unashamed of themselves because it ruins it for them. Like they hate LGBT people, but for them, the defining trait of being gay isn't being attracted to the same gender, but not being ashamed of it.
That makes the most sense to me. I know there are extremely weird 4chan creatures who have developed a strange new sexuality where they're gay for femme men but only if they dress like teenage girls but that's somehow not gay and they're actually heterosexual and then they go on with like twenty more pages of bullshit that ultimately just comes out to "I have nine kinds of phobic and my sense of self is totally fractured and incoherent".
But there can't actually be that many of them.
in other words, just normal 4chan things. it's always amazing how much these people insist on sabotaging their own sexuality.