I am a youngish millenial. Guys in highschool really did have the 'mt dew, COD, xbox, edgelord, mma wannabe etc' type stereotype going on pretty often. And honestly, as a 'gnc or tomboyish' female with a weird childhood who went to public school for the 1st time in highschool, I was jealous of those guys. They spent hours and hours with their bros, not needing to really be emotionally available in order to have friendships and always having a space to belong. Lobbies of online games, which I didnt and kinda still dont understand, were very alluring to me because every dude there somehow became 'bros' with each other with minimal effort. Always had a pack. The bar for acceptance was also very low. Call your bro the 'n' word and apparently that is ultimate respect? So easy. No drama it felt. Dudes banded together for years maybe not knowing their emtional inner workings but would show up in a crisis for each other at the drop of a hat. I grew up lonely and just never seemed to get along with girls, esp with my stereotypical male interests, without it being draining to me (turns out I am an aspie so there we go lol). At the same time, I am mostly straight. So I was also attracted to the boys I envied? This is all high school mind you I have grown past this lol. I also had internal misogyny and a NLOG attitude, which I realized later was curated because of how society portreyed women as weak, dumb, whiny, emotional, high maintenence, etc and I did NOT want anyone to attribute that to me. So acceptance into a guy group would mean I was not grouped in with 'those' women. The ultimate acceptance, I used to think, was male acceptance because I did not respect how I believed all women behaved and envied the lives of those bros. 'Youre just one of the guys' was a sought after compliment. Meant I was pretty alright, despite being female (I cringe now but that is what I felt, I now realize). The weird sexual part was that I started wanting to be so alluring to a COD xbox bro dude guy that he would leave his pack for me because he could not resist me...., but also allow me into it so his friends were my 'built' in friends since I was just 'one of the guys'. Kinda fucked.... but the sexuality I believe plays a part in it.
Yeah I am much more mature now but I do believe if I were younger I mightve fallen for the enby thing. Not trans... though when J was a young child I prayed to God to make me a boy because I wanted to do the outside chores instead of the kitchen chores, I wanted to travel on mission trips with my dad instead of clean the house for him and my brother when they returned, I wanted to play in the dirt and be allowed outside with my male cousins but I couldnt in case I was kidnapped.... being male seemed sooo much more fun and fulfilling. But it wasnt that I wanted to really be male I wanted to be treated by society/family like a man, not a woman lol. Was pretty mixed up about things growing up. But that was all sexism imposed on me that I swallowed and now have a more mature grip on things. My heart breaks for girls going down the ftm route I too experienced the shame of womanhood.
I think now that transitioning is mainstream, a lot of young women are recalling the stereotypes they envied and try to recreate that culture around themselves for easy living, while also fucking dudes because they like cock which is why they end up 'gay'? Or if they like women, they behave like the boys they envied?