blindVigil said:
This very thread already came to the conclusion that going forward futanari will be used as an umbrella for all depictions of female characters with dicks. Veradux was redefining nothing. Don't perpetuate an edit war or this argument will end with your ban.
This thread came to a conclusion without the input of people like me opposed to it, evidently. Does my opinion not count because I wasn't aware of the debate before it was resolved? Is there no possibility of this being taken back even if other people are opposed to it too?
If you actually bothered to read the thread, the majority agreed that most people use futa to loosely mean any girl with a dick, whether or not they also possess a vagina and/or testicles. Most people I've met in my life have never even heard the term newhalf, and you will almost never see it on western sites, shemale or transgender being the terms English speakers would actually be familiar with, and most people consider shemale a slur and aren't willing to call a futa girl trans if they don't explicitly intend for them to be transgender.
Once again, people using a tag wrong should not be taken as encouragement to continue using the tag wrong, and certainly not to actively change the tag definition to replace the original definition with the new incorrect one. See my previous example of bob cuts being incorrectly tagged as himecuts: would you argue that himecut should have its tag redefined to accommodate bob cuts being tagged as it? Of course not, right? They're different things with only one element connecting them at all (the blunt bangs). So why would you take that approach with futanari and newhalf?
As for the term newhalf, yes, most people obviously won't know what that is and would know it better as shemale. And people have shied away from using the term shemale because it's considered a slur. I don't know what else you expect here; Danbooru is avoiding using a slur and using a less well known alternative instead. It's exactly the same situation as trap being revised as otoko no ko, despite the former being far more well known. What do you want, exactly? Obviously futanari shouldn't be considered trans, that would make little sense when it comes to tagging, which is what this entire system is about: tagging things with concrete definitions to be able to provide as much information as possible about what's in an image and allow very selective filtering. Danbooru's entire tag system encompasses this; it's why there are a dozen hair colour tags, a dozen hair length tags, a dozen breast size tags, dozens of tags about the composition of an image, about clothing features and the minute details that distinguish one article of clothing from another, you get the idea. The entire point here is to have tags actually mean things. Changing futanari in such a way, to accommodate people who have been using the tag wrong, is erasing meaning and making it more difficult to search for what one actually wants to search for. As noted how to get the same results of "futanari" and "newhalf" searches before, I would now need to search for "futanari -newhalf" instead, and I'm not even sure what exactly for newhalf, since all newhalf posts are now implicating futanari despite not being futanari.
"A man with breasts and a dick" is incredibly transphobic, given that a newhalf is a man in the process of transitioning, which would in fact make them a woman. What, are we going to start tagging Poison as 1boy?
You'll have to forgive my being frank when talking about tag definitions on Danbooru and not actual people. And again, the latter part there should have been a discussion about how newhalf should have been tagged in relation to girl / boy identifications, not one of changing futanari's inherent meaning to accommodate.
