My friend has Raymond living next door to Punchy. All this hype is so funny to me cuz I'm always shoving past him on my way to visit at Punchy's like "outta da way rayman!"
I have no problem with people seeing him as gay or whatever, or putting villagers in opposite sex clothing. But this is another matter – I'm weirded out by the maid dress thing. It's a bit fetishistic. It gives me the creeps, and doing a google image search (with safesearch on!) to find pics of him in game turned up fanart results that made me kinda nauseous and put me off this villager entirely.