Dreeb said:
E621 designing its tagging rules so that you are forced to use 5 million different slurs whenever uploading an image of a trans or intersex character:
post #1837063

I couldn't disagree more.

"Herm" is straight up just the established term for species and beings that produce both sperm and eggs, and "male herm" being one with a masculine build is a reasonable enough extrapolation. There are legitimate non-slur uses for this word.
"Andromorph" and "gynomorph" are a little less common but established nevertheless, and the most literal meanings boil down to "a man's form" and "a woman's form". Again, legitimate non-slur uses.
The previous tags were also straight up just porn terms.

Being eager to let bigots dictate this language is a losing play. They pretend "cis" is a slur but it has been an antonym for "trans" for a century. If they had their way, nobody would be talking about trans or intersex people period.

it's honestly so frustrating that we spent over half a decade discussing and arguing about these tags' names specifically in an effort to get them to a state where they'd be as neutral as possible while still being coherent, and yet we still have people saying that all the intersex tags are slurs.

we put _way_ more fucking effort than every other booru out there on this front and we still will occasionally get shit for it.

like, what would they even prefer? do they genuinely think that "dickgirl" and "cuntboy" would be better, or something?