Conservatives desperately want us to be shunned and excluded; tirelessly do everything in their power to keep us from being “normal.”
If they refuse to accept a world with us in it, then there is no world for anybody. If they want to force us out, society will reflect their naked brutality and chaos. They will never win because we will never stop existing, no matter how much they try to exterminate us. We exist in the fabric of every culture, every nation, and every family. All they can accomplish is temporary evil, because they can never win. It’s in the nature of conservatism to lose.
Astolfo is a femboy icon, and while there’s nothing wrong with being a femboy, the community does skew younger. At a certain age, it gets awkward to call yourself a boy or girl, as our bodies naturally mature. It has a lot to do with the loss of youth, and the shame that comes with it.
Teachers are expected to be more “grown-up or mature,” with them using cute characters coming across as out of touch. It gets awkward when teachers break that perception, like they’re trying to be someone they can’t.
If the teacher doesn’t know who Astolfo is, they seem even more out of touch than if it’s a cute girl character; a “how do you do fellow kids?” moment. If the teacher is aware and intentionally represents themselves as a femboy, it still breaks the view students have of teachers as mature. It would be abnormal instead of immoral, but that alone is risky if a conservative catches wind of it.