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So, I took a bet that I couldn't write a semi-serious paper on the history and impact of femboys. I need data on it's spread and how commonly understood it is. below is a survey link, it won't do anything but have you answer some questions (remove if considered spam/advertisement). Any help is appreciated.

Google Survey Here

Filled out the survey. If anyone was curious and wanted to fill it out but was worried about getting a virus you won't.

One minor complaint, though mitigated by the free response followup: "Are sexual relationships with femboys inherently homosexual" feels odd when you do not specify who the sexual relationship is with.

It heavily goes against gender norms, but as most fictional femboys are made trans officially or unofficially it ironically heavily reaffirms gender norms too just as much.

However while this is somewhat unfortunate at least there is the sginificant positive effect that it heavily normalizes trans people BUT it also has the unfortunate effect of also heavily sexualizes them. Of course again femboys arent trans but look at the previous point.

So imo the cultural impact ends up being kind of just 0, neither positive nor negative they just exist.

I wouldn't say the impact is zero; many traps/femboys have been iconic for years now. However, your assessment that the impact is neutral is very accurate. I've seen so much discourse about this shit it's unreal, and as you said, their existence somehow simultaneously opposes and reinforces a strict standard of gender norms; they defy it by their nature, and the reaction they cause within people enforces it. Quite the curious situation.

Its a good example of how the world is constantly trying to reset itself. Its hard to change anything in the world cause something will always reset it or try to.

Is that a good thing? A bad thing? Idk but I am old enough to have seen the world loop before, multiple times arguably, and that things that seem like they will drastically change the world for the better or for the worse just end up being a passing fad.

Semi-related topic, but I find it interesting us in the west are generally quite rigid about gender expression in particular, in that it's taken that if you go outside the norm, then that inherently means other things. Don't want to get too heavy into it, but to give you an idea, people that push "egg culture" onto others, as above, fictional femboys being pushed as trans, that stuff.

Where recently I've observed that subcultures in Japan don't have it like that.
Now mind you part of that is probably because Japan isn't exactly a bastion of trans acceptance, but apart from that, they seem considerably more carefree about gender expression in particular. I've seen a lot of japanese guys who just, enjoy dressing as women, and that's the bottom line of it. Nothing else is inferred about them, that state is just seen as acceptable on it's own. I'm cherry-picking a little here (this is in a known LGBTQ district), but I can't image this kind of thing existing in the west, not for a while at least, and if it was, it would be much more heavily associated with trans people.

I reckon this is more of a big city thing and the more remote areas would be a lot more conservative about this kind of stuff, but you have to notice even way back in the original "everyone is gay for bridget" days, "Traps" (as they were then) were not really a thing in western media really at all, and still barely are tbh.

I think it should be clear that while transpeople can be femboys, you don’t need to be trans to be a femboy. As No stated, just labeling all femboys trans ends up reaffirming traditional gender roles rather than breaking them apart.

I don’t believe anybody on this site actually thinks all femboys are trans, so I think I’m just preaching to the choir saying that, but there definitely is a significant amount of people on other sites who do believe in such an idea, most notably Twitter/X (I hate the X name).

@Pyroniusburn,
With regards to the term "Egg", I think it's supposed to mean something else entirely. Somebody else on this site explained what it really was supposed to mean (Probably Mistress Fortune or somebody else), but unfortunately I can't find it right now. But unfortunately, trans activists (and I must specify: a group of people SEPARATE from actual transpeople) did use the term "Egg" a bit too loosely and turned into yet another term that accidentally reaffirmed gender roles.

^ Yeah I specifically worded that as "people who push it onto others"

There's nothing wrong with a trans person reflecting on their past self and going "oh, how did I not see this coming?".
But it gets nasty when people start doing it about others, asserting that they're something they don't identify as, effectively denying their identity, which is mighty fucking hypocritical of trans people who should know better than that.

Here's section B, also for those worried, no virus.

Section B link

Any research results you're able to share yet?

Below is the entire results of every respondent. Some… interesting thoughts were had.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19c4iWohGadOswXWO7thxYh1D8a3vI2BRLD6dSEgv8Vg/edit?resourcekey#gid=1537704115

Lmao, interesting indeed.

I love how some answers are borderline shitposts.

I LOVE Femboys! But liking them does not make me gay! >:( I say as I have not only femboi versions of female characters but a whole folder of them