I've always had one problem with traps and the people who love them, which is that traps are, for all intents and purposes, usually female. They tend to look like a (hot) girl, act like a girl, have a chirpy female seiyuu, and are completely gay. Now, how hard is it to fall into that trap, really? It's not even a trap, because it's easy to defend your sexuality when the character might as well be a female anyway. For instance, one of my favorite traps is Peppo from Gankutsou, but Peppo looks, sounds, and acts so much like a girl that I'm half-convinced she's not even a real trap at all! The Animanachronism once made a great point that traps are only really 'men' insofar as the canon demands it, as if we just ignore that it's a boy (or don't even know) then it would be pretty hard to be called gay for finding it attractive.
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