Over time, due to increasing alienation under capitalism, more men are seeing women as these inaccessible alien beings that they desperately want so they can prove to the world/themselves how manly they are, but can never have for one reason or another.
So to them, femboys are the next best thing because they're feminine like women, but are men, so therefore more "accessible".
I think it's almost entirely because it's a meme on the left. I haven't seen any noticeable increase in general society outside of spaces like this one.
Tbh it's kind of weird to me how a lot of leftist memes instrumentalise queer and trans identities without really interrogating what that means, especially when it's just for hornyposting. At this stage "fully automated luxury gay space communism" or "femboy hooters" have real "black women are my spirit animal" energy, and it's pretty gross.
could a lot of leftists actually be queer? Could the cultural primacy of straightness and cisness be waning? :thinky-felix:
I don't think that changes anything though. It's still dangerous and weird to make the assumption that queerness = left. There are plenty of reactionary queer people, and for people who have struggled or faced violence because of their gender/sexual identity, reducing that identity to memes that are totally divorced from lived realities can be tiring af
Probably not significantly more than the general population, when you get down to it.
Even in a perfectly sexually liberated society, most people are going to be hetero, and the vast majority will be a 0 or a 1 on the Kinsey scale. Cis people will always be the vast, vast majority as well.