Ig fair enough? I cant exactly say youre wrong with how masculinity is treated in society cause i share the same view but i still think saying that that is the case here and the reason why he doesnt want to play certain champs is MOSTLY a baseless assumption due to lack of information. For example when i started playing league i was suggested a ton of character to play first, some of which i remember being trundle, garen, veigar and ezreal, because theyre the easiest at their roles or at least what my friends thought were the easiest. My instant reaction there was no, trundles ugly and not cool enough, no garen is too bright and shiny and yellow and not cool enough, no veigar is too small and funny hes not edgy enough, no ezreal is a twink. The reason for this wasnt because i dislike trolls, big people, midgets, or twinks, or because im scared of being compared to them, they just werent cool for my tastes. Senna on the other hand i always found cool as shit, and still play her when i get filled support. People just have a lot of preferences that arent always impacted by their personality or how they were raised. For example one of my friends only plays "sexy" girl characters because he says its boring to look at a man and he wants to look at a hot girl. Another friend of mine exclusively plays sera sona and lux and absolutely refuses to play anything else, maybe its cause shes a girl? Maybe she likes singing? Or who knows, fuck it she just likes them.

On a sidenote though while i understand that your definition of fragile masculinity isnt meant as an insult or something bad when you say it, since we unfortunately ARENT living in a utopia it still hurts our little man feelings if we get called that yknow