Re: Troons with Cyberpunk, it's true enough but let's not lose the forest for the trees; actual women only give a shit about any Science Fiction if they are severely autistic. In fact I'd say cyberpunk at least has a number of real women paying lip service to it for cosplay reasons so they can dress up in Motoko-Plugsuit-D.V.A. spandex which is more then I can say about Dune or The Foundations series or something.
In the least incel-rage way possible: Women don't game, nerd or obsess like dudes do. And troons are trifold the example of this. Even in the world of linkedin loonies, the "real women" at the top of "real compsci" are just women in jeans who quit doing grunt work years ago. They simply do not have the same brain wrinkles as those that demand you spend 30 years putting Doom on a toothbrush.
This turns into the 'Tranny music discussion thread', where there are definitely thoughtful bits about troons interests but the whole argument turned into 'women are stupid and only cares about being pretty and the only ones to have any deeper interests are socially maladjusted freaks' (and that implies dudes with nerdy hobbies can still be normal unless they troon out.)
Hardcore gaming or anything too obsessive is not an attractive hobby for a more well adjusted, even if technically skilled, male programmers either. In Warez/Crack scene thread, in regards to EMPRESS, someone said that programmers of the calibre to crack Denuvo are plenty, but most of them would be doing corporate jobs, so they guessed that EMPRESS would be someone with certain personality flaws that makes serious employment not possible - Not sure how true is that, but I like that line of thinking. (and I don't think EMPRESS is a woman)
I do take issues with the assumption that women who takes interests in Science Fiction have something inherently wrong with them. Dune and The Foundations you brought up are classics 'normie' works of the genre where you don't have to be uber nerd to know of - you can say the same for Left Hand of Darkness, which was written by a woman. There are plenty of actual women sci-fi writers. While there are less than men, that has to do more about the scene being unappealing to women than 'women can't into logic'. There's a reason by Andre Norton and C. J. Cherryh had to write under pen name. But to make a point, you can also look at actual third world countries where interests in sci-fi barely exists as a cultural forces, if you talk about sci-fi ideas (or even some of the real science) there you'd be looked at like you have two head but people actually believe in ghosts and magic.
Sometimes it's just their environment, their influences, or interests, It's just that I think when someone take the interests too far that it started to eat up their other aspects in life and they start to think they can live out their fantasy and lose insight of their reality, which cybertroons or terminally online programmer troons usually are, that's a problem...
As I think about it, there is two kinds of cyberpunk stories. The one troons and coomers in particular like, paint it in more positive and coomerish colours, it's too focused on the sexy aspect of that.
Then there are more dystopic, materialistic ones - like the Russian books I was talking about, which are about guys whose job is to track and save people, who got stuck in the virtual reality and now sit in their own piss and shit and are about to die of thirst in their empty trashed flats, while their virtual self is carelessly frolicking somewhere in VR. Guess those aren't the troon favourites.
But cybertroons is a pretty funny junction of retards and pop literature. If you go back to the beginnings of the Cyberpunk it was very clear that the authors considered the human body becoming a commodity with interchangeable parts to be bleak and ill-advised. They were not subtle. Look at Molly, a reoccurring supporting character in William Gibson's books (Neuromancer, and the rest of the Sprawl trilogy). She is a razorgirl, a sort of genre of cyborg with dialed up reflexes and senses and and razor claws implanted in her fingers. In order to afford this she literally had to sell herself as a specialized prostitute that would sleep while her body was controlled by a Chat personality for the deed. When she finally got herself out of surgery-debt her most obvious enhancement is the mirrored discs she has for eyes. When someone asks her how she cries, she explained that they rerouted her tear ducts to her mouth so when she cries she spits. This is absolutely not subtle; this modification required some loss of her innate humanity. And you find that sort of stuff everywhere in the early parts of the genre, these elective and empowering surgeries were insidious and ceding part of your autonomy to live in opposition to your true nature and were to be viewed with suspicion. But troons actually hate themselves so living in opposition to their nature is kind of the point so it's all upside fantasy to them.
I agree with this, Cyberpunk as a genre is inherently sad. It's about alienation, you're shown 'cool' tech and virtual reality and shit to ask you if it's really worth it, to live like that. The genre itself isn't exactly moralising, so all the coomers and troons can imagine all the transhumanist fantasy - while they're forgetting that in the same genre people are either dying to pointless crimes or rotting away in their pods.
It's also becoming reality but in a 'boring dystopia' way, so Cyberpunk is less of an escapism now, and troons are probably one good example of that. The problems with troons making 'girlypop' cyberpunk is that it's uninspired, nostalgia bait shit, and if they were real women they wouldn't be saying that the game is girly 20 times. It's the focus on the shallow stereotype of the opposite sex that people can sniff out that it's a fake. The same way pooners like to remind themselves they are king dude bros. The whole Y2K/Neocities aesthetics are also fake, it's a poor imitation of how websites and fashion looked like back in late 90s-early 2000s but far from the spirit of the real thing, the same thing can be said for vaporwave - nostalgia for the sake of nostalgia, full of irony but without vitality.