(Posting here because it got removed from Reddit, which is the reason I left that hellhole site and joined this place. Hope you guys like my introductory post!)
I used to have an acquaintance that I knew through a mutual friend who was a "cis" man, but was very woman-presenting and identified as a "femboy". He made me uncomfortable because his socials were full of 4chan posts about how femboys were superior to real women and how more men and bi women preferred them. My all-female friend group gave him a chance. After all, I wanted to encourage men to break gender norms. When I even hinted I was uncomfortable with his misogynistic jokes, he would imply I was just overthinking it and "didn't get his humor".
But he was straight. And in his 20's. And he was REALLY horny (always making inappropriate sex jokes). So he definitely got flirty when he was in our all-female, mostly autistic group. When someone called him out, he fell back on his "i'm just a soft fem guy" shtick and made us feel bad for him, so we gave him chance after chance. He also tried REALLY hard to be "relateable" to us since he also wore women's clothing and make-up. I don't dress very feminine because a lot of women's clothes gives me sensory issues, and he kept pressuring me to do it so that way he can "give me tips" (i.e. his thinly disguised way of making advances on me).
He believed that "all women are bisexual" and that they liked women's bodies but also liked dick. He thought he could convert any woman into liking him since he had both a womanly aesthetic and a penis.
We ignored all the red flags until he sent texts to my friend repeatedly giving her suggestive messages. When she showed us the texts, we dropped him, but not before he flipped out and called us all b*tches who "couldn't handle a femme man" and we were just jealous because "femme guys make better women than even real women".
We thought that was the last time we would see of him, until shortly afterwards, he showed up at one of our friends' house begging for forgiveness, and eventually SA'd her when she told him to leave. But as hard as it was, we encouraged her to come forward with the case, and she was determined to take him down. Eventually, we were able to get him arrested and charged for what he did to her. My friend made it crystal clear to all of us that she wasn't backing down and was going to do whatever it took to put him behind bars, and thanks to her, we were able to get him convicted.
A female judge sentenced him to almost a decade in prison, and he will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life once he's out. He's currently serving his punishment in one of the most notorious, horrible prisons in our area. His mugshot looks like he was about to cry (🥰🥰🥰).
Remember: "femboys" are still men. I sometimes let me guard down near him, but being feminine doesn't inherently make a man less toxic.
I'm still heartbroken for my friend, but I'm so proud of her effort in getting him locked up and the support we gave her. I'm also so, so relieved that he's fucking miserable now and is going to fear for his life as a femme man in prison for almost 10 fucking years, before being monitored for life. Every woman will know what he is and what he did. He tried so hard to lure women in by wearing women's clothes. Now the only clothes he's wearing is a fucking prison uniform.
Remember that you are the sum of the friends you have. so you have to be selective.
The justice would have been dropping him immediately out of your life the second he made you uncomfortable. A man posing as a woman should definitely be immediately drop-worthy, too. Only women are women.
There's no justice here in what and your friends were willing to put up with from this freak. Raise your standards, sis.
I don’t inherently have a problem with men wearing whatever the hell they feel comfortable and happy in. But if they’re going to present as feminine, they’d sure as hell better have a DEEP respect for women. All women, not just women they’re personally attracted to. How they talk about and to the women who they’re pulling their entire aesthetic from is VERY telling.
This guy clearly was just a scrote in skirts. “Joking” about misogyny is a huge red flag; refusing to be held accountable for his words and actions within the friend group is another.