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[–]QueenBread 15 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Most of them are white because the majority of the European and American population is white. That's all.

If Africa were the rich country were this kind of stuff started happening, you'd find people wondering why it looks like it's mostly black males.

[–]censorshipment 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Percentages. Heterosexual males in general could be autogynephiles, but most AGPs are creepy white males. Whereas, there is likely a higher percentage of homosexual black males identifying as trans than homosexual white males are.

[–]our_team_is_winning 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

most AGPs are creepy white males. Whereas, there is likely a higher percentage of homosexual black males identifying as trans

I'm going to use a lot of stereotypes here, so please nobody scold me. I'm aware I'm stereotyping.

Total stereotype, I know, but I always think of black men as the "manliest" of all. Black soyboys aren't common, are they? Was it Dave Chappelle that talked about Hollywood trying to emasculate black men, putting them in dresses on TV? Just my opinion maybe, but I think straight black men have a healthy sense of self, so they are not going down AGP road. Maybe gay black men feel pressured to go to the extreme if they're told they're not "real men" because the option of being a black soyboy doesn't really exist?

A lot of white men (again, stereotypes, sorry, just my experiences) like to prove they're better at everything and now they want to prove they're better at being a woman. Even when that means humiliating themselves. Putting on a dress and invading female spaces seems like their latest form of bullying and trying to prove how "tough" they are.

Also, sometimes I think AGP is only among men who are upper middle class and higher. In the US, it's usually Asian and Jewish men with the highest incomes, and we do see a lot of wealthy Jewish men doing this (Pritzker, Rothblatt, Dr. Levine, Yaniv is Jewish but not wealthy maybe? Or maybe he hopes to be with all those lawsuits), but oddly no Asian men that I know of (from media or internet anyway -- so maybe it blows that part of my idea). I believe traditional Jewish law says men and women should not wear each other's clothes, so I wonder if it's some sort of rejection of their mothers' values?

I think AGP is largely tied to wealth and power though.

[–]Rag3 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Dave said "if a bunch of black men said I feel like a woman inside, everyone would tell him to stfu and out on some pants".