holy shit I'm glad someone mentioned this! an awful lot of transwomen on the internet seem heavily invested in reclaiming anime femininity tropes to the point that I'd be genuinely surprised if the mods didn't know this, and the theoretical issue at stake in the mods' decision already is the validity of voluntary performance of femininity. I mean, the reason people draw catgirls is not their domesticity or animality per se - it's that cats are cute, and some women (like some men, e.g. me) identify with cute things. women are encouraged more than men to aspire to "cuteness", for reasons that are entangled with its basis in animality, domesticity etc. roughly as much as, say, (conventionally feminine) makeup is entangled in sexualization. I've never heard of the /r/socialism mods banning a woman for wearing makeup but who knows. The definition of (internalized) misogyny applied in their decision would be immediately apparent as a weirdly dated second wave one if it wasn't thinly covered by exotification re: "anime".