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- Mar 24, 2013
See, this is the thing that I still can't wrap my head around.
When people say that so-and-so is "fake trans", I usually parse that as "fake trans" rather than "fake trans". That is to say, fake trans as in "trendy trans", "fetish trans", "just a dude who gets a boner at the thought of being a chick" etc etc. Fake trannies are trannies who play at being trans, but somehow fall short of embodying the authentic trans-experience (whatever that may be).
When I hear deep lore like this, about Lou's dumb alteregos, about the charcters he idolizes and hero(ines) he wishes he could be, that's the sort of tranny I think of Lou as being. As a "fake trans". As a guy with a fetish. That's certainly how he presents most of the time.
But I've still got this sneaking suspicion that Lou is "fake trans" - as in, it's all a lie, everything from the ground up. He doesn't think he's a chick, he doesn't get a boner from the thought of having boobs, he's not even simply confused and trying to delude himself into thinking it's true, like fellow lolcow ADF Phil (who has no identity of his own and desperately wants to fit in with a group; any group). Lou's literally just a football-watching, cishet dudebro, and the tranny thing is 100% fake, no different from a camwhore pretending to be a schoolgirl or your sexy sister or whatever else the paypiggies are fantasizing about tonight. It would certainly explain why Lou makes zero effort to pass.
Yet, if Ace has all this deep lore - if "Ace Lou" is the Lou that Lou wanted to be, ever since he was a child and saw some buttkicking punk rock chick beat up Daleks or whatever - then maybe Lou's NOT a fake tranny after all? He's just a fake tranny, of the first variety? Like most of the other cows on this site?
, I know, but this is one of those mysteries that really fascinates me about Our Pet Lounatic. I keep going back and forth between whether Lou knows it's all an act, or whether some part of Lou genuinely wishes that he was a spunky teenage girl going on adventures with a flamboyant Englishman several orders of magnitude his senior, instead of being a 40 yo fat man with a decomposing leg.
Oh, make no mistake about it, Louie is NOT trans in any way, shape, or form aside from bullshit claims on social media to sucker rubes into giving him their money. He obviously has some mild fetishes, but he does not have dysphoria and he's not a hardcore autogynephile. He doesn't believe he's really a woman inside born in the wrong body, and he doesn't want to suddenly sprout a vagoo so he can play with himself bad enough to identify as female IRL. In his real life he's Lou. Ace might as well just be a role playing character, only the game is to rook suckers of their hard earned cash. That's literally the bulk of it. The small remainder is his very mild AGP fetish, which is paired with his furfag fetish, and of the two the furfag fetish is the larger one.
tl;dr: Phil is a fake tranny in that it's a lie for grifting purposes, but he does get a little chubby thinking about himself as an anthropomorphic female jungle cat.
