Why do people want Link to be a girl?

[Salnax]

Because people want to play as "awesome" female protagonists in their video games.

They would play something like Metroid, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy, Mirror's Edge, Portal, Fatal Frame, Fire Emblem, Alien: Isolation, The Last of Us, The Walking Dead, Resident Evil, Remember Me, Persona, Shantae, Child of Light, or any of the other many, MANY games with female protagonists... but they're all misogynist.