Never said they couldn't either!
I literally do the same thing but I don't see "general simping" as so derogatory either. Only the "true simps" who I prefer to call "lost causes" as they donate literally hundreds and thousands of dollars or so to female streamers, lose their shit when they find out the girls won't meet up with/date/kiss/sleep with them and even go bankrupt donating so much money to them, they literally end up homeless!
I genuinely cannot fathom these guys, it does get much weirder, grosser, more disturbing than that too!
To admire someone is to "simp for them" in my own beliefs, but as I said, there's people who take it way too far and make it such a degenerate/derogatory and literally even life ruining problem.
I also "simp" for male characters and men out there, is that sexist too? Also how many times did I need to say "literally" here? Lmao