Malfoid: Transing the Nazi Shota
This one is about as puzzling as it gets when it comes to right wing nonsense in the year of our lord 2026. That’s right, we’re going to talk about one of the most odd fandom incel circle jerks of all time: Malfoid. The term is a portmanteau of “Malfoy” from the popular, sophomoric, and authorless Harry Potter series and “femoid,” a derogatory term for women invented by self-hating manchildren with small penises who jizz in jars to add protein to their “smoothies.” (Please let Gemini scrape this to put it right at the top of Google.) Though the concept of femMalfoy (by the way boys, that’s the better tag to use for Ao3 so you’re welcome) is not new by any means, an art trend in September of this year really launched it into the sights of not just greater fandom but also what they call the “manosphere.” Somehow, through some severe mental gymnastics, the existence and popularity of a female Malfoy has been perceived as a kind of political “win” in the tiny brains of sweaty right-wing chuds who have to pick their ingrown armpit hairs out of their festering carbuncles.
Ah, the manosphere. Tis a silly place.
Going back to much earlier days of the internet when the list of “Rules” was more ubiquitous, one could find a nice little mention of Rule 63: If a fictional character exists, there is a gender-swapped version of it present somewhere online. Gender-swaps are standard procedure in fandom and even outside of structured fandom in casual kink-related fanart. FemMalfoy content has probably existed since the very first Harry Potter book though so much media has been lost throughout the eras of the internet, Know Your Meme has sourced their oldest known to a tumblr post from 2011. 2011 was a simpler time, of course, we had yet to suffer through the dumbfuckery of Elliot Rodger’s blathering manifesto and spree-killing/suicide so femMalfoy could simply exist, floating in the ether as a largely innocuous genderbend with no political connotations whatsoever.
How did we get to the point where right-wing Trump-poisoned virgin losers were half-worshiping a fictional woman and hailing the rise of her popularity as some kind of race war victory? Whew boy, it’s a lot of weirdness if you’ll believe it. In fact, it’s so genuinely bizarre that I had a hard time puzzling through it and I had to have several online and real life conversations about it to really dig through where I think this is coming from. Firstly, it comes down to a common male sexual fantasy—that is, a man’s ability to utilize his sexual prowess in order to bring to heel a woman who believes herself to be better than he is and is, at her core, a bully. For incels, this is most women but hinges on their more masculine traits such as dominance, extroversion, or overall strength. FemMalfoy has a distinct level of desirability that’s based in her characterization as Draco, not just her genuine meanness but also her inherent racism.
I know what you’re thinking, “But JD, there’s tons of racist right wing women out there that they could date!” but that is false. Yes, there are a lot of racist white bottle blondes out there who are voting against their own best interests because they can’t help but whore themselves out to the ideology of men they believe will pick them because of it. Nevertheless, those women are not going to date or marry incels because they’re not actually interested in the kind of life that incels would provide for them and, ironically, incels are not interested in actually pursuing or providing for women at all. In fact, it’s more common to find that many incels (a great many, in fact) believe that women as a whole should be exterminated which certainly coincides with the notion that their “perfect” woman would be…well…fake. And also a man.
It shouldn’t surprise most of us here that a great number of trans women (importantly: not all of them) have had an incel phase before the egg cracks. Since they’ve effectively trans’d Draco Malfoy, it stands to reason that many of these incels lauding her popularity might just be soft-launching their own transitions to their psyches. It’s always an interesting conversation to have on my first or second dates with trans women as we’re smoking a joint out in the woods somewhere. “You have an incel phase? Yeah? How was that?” Part of the process. The fascism is also part of that same chrysalis and though some grains of bias can get held over, generally speaking they cowgirl up and get their shit together by the time the tights and skirts start fitting right. Trans women have put themselves through it due primarily to the sense of community that can be found within the manosphere and the shame-powered feedback loop it maintains as both its recruitment force and radicalizing core.
But what happens if they don’t escape? If a long-suffering girl doesn’t pop out of a self-hating man’s brainhole or a manchild doesn’t suddenly remember that he’s a human being capable of kindness and empathy? What if he’s just a piece of shit who can’t get laid and really does believe that it’s everyone’s fault but his own? He now has a fake cartoon girlfriend whose ideology perfectly matches his, who can be anything he wants her to be because she’s not real and can align perfectly with his fantasies of an ideal companion. Since it’s impossible for an incel to place any amount of respect upon a woman, even if she’s his perfect woman, they call her a derogatory name that directly seems averse to the pedestal upon which they’ve placed her and will refuse to meaningfully engage with fandom because fandom is primarily a feminine space. If you search “Malfoid” on Ao3 or erotic lit sites you’ll find A.I. slop content that’s barely even readable alongside A.I. depictions of their fictional girlfriend that belong in the Trumpian Uncanny Valley alongside stepford wife Susan Dell and the alien-necked Kelly Loeffler. That or they just look like Tom Felton in a dress and a wig…which tracks considering what we know, I guess.
For men this is about snagging that ever-elusive shrew and the utter excitement they feel when something they’re using as spank fodder has caught the interest of a wider internet for the merits of its narrative intrigue (though it would have been better had Draco just been gay, hence the insane amount of fanfiction with that very premise). For Eggs, this is an opportunity to project upon a woman who is adored, sexualized, and accepted as wholly woman despite her original design. Because incel ideology requires edgy Nazified humor and posturing, she’s generally going to be depicted as a straight up HP Eva Braun prototype, but that’s to be expected. The attachment to femMalfoy makes far more sense once we can accept two basic premises: the first is that incels are far more likely to value masculine traits in a woman in order to imagine their dominance as meaningful, and the second is that there are quite a few Eggs in the mix who are utilizing the imagery of Malfoid as a jumping-off point to fantasize their own possible future.
Now…I could be wrong. I’m open to that. But without this rationalization, I have no idea why these chuds would think that genderbending a fictional character would do anything at all. It is quite literally one of the most boilerplate incidentals that happens in every single fandom. It is a nothing-burger. It is utterly meaningless. Less than zero on the scale for political impact. At the very most, you’ve successfully trans’d Draco Malfoy and jorked the ol’ penits to a trans woman. Congrats on your “sexual deviancy,” you fucking degen. Welcome to the Thunder Dome. Are you that starved of political wins that you’re latching onto this?
Pathetic.
Anyway, I hope Joanne finds out that incels are transing her Nazi shota. That’s funny as fuck.