There are men who are feminine, and men who will occasionally dress femininely for various. However outside of internet sex workers, a "feminine man" usually refers to basically a twink. Our cultural conception of a femboy is not only far more feminine than that of a twink in dress, but they typically present as a femboy *permanently.* How our society (mainly online) thinks about femboys is also in such a way that their body proportions require one to be on estrogen or intersex. Femboys (at least in the popular consciousness) are essentially just flat-chested he/him women, and that's not an accident.

Now think for a second: how many cis men do you know that wear a skirt daily? Not just for a dare or a cosplay, but like, every day. I have yet to meet even a single one, & I imagine they're extremely rare. And yet, for some reason, they're extremely popular, mainly in a hypersexualized pornographic context like picrel, which was among the first results for femboy when I looked it up. Now, think for a second, what are other terms we use to describe very fem AMAB people? Trap? Theyook exactly like women, but are actually just pre-E boys who wear women's clothes to trick men into sleeping with them, as if though that's a real & prevalent category of human being.

Futas? Those aren't trans women either, they're cis women born with penises (often they're not even presented as intersex, literally just women with dicks). But they're almost never stated to be trans. Ladyboys? Those aren't women, those are guys who wear women's clothes and present as women and take estrogen but they aren't women! Are you noticing a pattern here? Cis people are very attracted to trans women's bodies, but they don't want us to be trans women, so they either negate the woman part (femboys, traps, & ladyboys) or the trans part (futas). We are desired, but only if we are not women to them. Femboys are just the latest variation of this, nothing more.