Despite that, it's not made any less awful.

There are very few people both cis and trans who are completely "trans-misogyny exempt" because transmisogyny affects even the bro-iest cis highschool bully you can think of.

That means you have to draw the line SOMEWHERE for what counts as truly "affected" by transmisogyny- like "you have to have been assaulted" or "you have to have been bullied" or "you have to have undergone familial abuse." If you just pick one of those, you end up excluding people who have endured the others. If you define it as having experienced all of those, you end up excluding people who had significant amounts of one of them.

The upshot of this is you get people who have endured an insane internet ostracization campaign, having to claim they are TME to engage with the discussion just because they have a supportive family.

And I need to send some stuff to an editor.

My mom sent me this and just... What?

Wall-E doesn't understand social norms, nor does he understand boundaries or the actual way romance works because he's a robot who's been alone all his life with only films to go off of. If you raised a human child apart from literally everybody and only showed them how human interaction actually works through outdated films missing the fundamentals of human reaction and boundaries, do you think they'd be normal?

He has lived a solitary lifestyle his entire life, not once has he interacted with a single living creature beyond a bug and a plant for an undefined amount of time.

EVE is the first being who can actually react and respond to him the way people would interact with each other. And of course she'll reject his advances because he doesn't understand what she's trying to do. Wall-E is just desperate for interaction, having been surrounded by it without actually accessing it for years.

Shaming Wall-E for bringing a robot with him on a few romantic-like scenarios when he doesn't comprehend what he's doing is wrong doesn't make any sense. He could be taught this was wrong, but he wasn't, because no one was there to teach him. He can't be expected to just know things when there is no one there to teach him.

Do you expect a child to colour in the lines on the first try? Or someone to ride a bike perfectly on the first go, after only ever seeing professionals do it in a heavily edited and romanticized manner with none of the criteria, technique, and boundaries of the sport actually shown?

Wall-E is a robot who only has film to go off of, and anyone should be able to recognize how manipulated and deceiving the media can be. He only knows what he's seen, which doesn't show him how things really work. You can't persecute someone for a crime they didn't even know they were committing. Before you call him a "gross creep" take into consideration the learning differences between us and him. We have experience and education he's never had access to.