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".
This has big chuddy "Gay people are secretly straights who can't get women" energy.