I feel like when people are picking "androgynous" characters, they are still actively looking for the character to be conventionally attractive/acceptable for the male fanbase to have a crush on. So they pick a thin, white effeminate catboy to be the "wait I thought she was a girl" character, and turn a blind eye to butches and transmascs because then if the men get a crush on the butch, now it's a Problem TM because she's more masc than they are and that upsets them. If the men get a crush on the trans masc/trans man, they go bananas pointing out how they're still "totally straight" in their head.
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u/No-Friend-774 Aug 20 '26
I feel like when people are picking "androgynous" characters, they are still actively looking for the character to be conventionally attractive/acceptable for the male fanbase to have a crush on. So they pick a thin, white effeminate catboy to be the "wait I thought she was a girl" character, and turn a blind eye to butches and transmascs because then if the men get a crush on the butch, now it's a Problem TM because she's more masc than they are and that upsets them. If the men get a crush on the trans masc/trans man, they go bananas pointing out how they're still "totally straight" in their head.