• Ilovebunnies@lemmygrad.ml
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    I feel like those femboy memes thing is just men treating anything “womanly” as sexual objects. There is nothing wrong with a person labeling themselves as such but whenever I hear about this it’s always about having sex with them.

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      That’s because it is, there’s also an aspect of transphobia to it because they’re usually rebranding of “trap” memes, for which the point was always to fetishize trans women’s bodies while denying us our gender identity and rights (this is especially obvious when certain characters used in said memes are literally trans women in canon)

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        (this is especially obvious when certain characters used in said memes are literally trans women in canon)

        Is this a reference to Ferris, or is Astolfo trans too?

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          I don’t know that much about Astolfo, but they seem closer to implied nonbinary than a strict femboy, though I could be wrong

          Bridget is also a character I think of because she used to get this treatment a lot before she was recently explicitly confirmed as a trans girl

          From what I’ve heard from a friend who cares more about anime than I do, Ferris definitely seems like one of those characters who’s basically a trans girl but everyone pretends is a trap “femboy”, partly due to the source material not handling it well

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            Gotcha.

            partly due to the source material not handling it well

            This stuff annoys me so much and it’s also present in genderbending fiction where writers will swap someone’s gender for the laughs but never actually consider the implications. Is it so hard not to write about things you know nothing about?