I'm done sitting around waiting for this to resolve itself.

I'd personally like for users to stop getting baited into fruitless dramas and receiving unnecessary records. We've already lost one artist's works because they couldn't stand the term cuntboy (the artist was also temporarily banned - score +1 for e621 publicity). Yes, their behavior was rude - they should have just submitted a takedown request and moved on without vandalizing tags.

But the point still stands, we now have a documented case of e621 failing to serve its purpose as an art archive because of this issue. If it had been an artist upset with our TWYS policy, fine - we would have told them to shove it, like we did to Purplekecleon. But this was somebody who would have had no problem with the site otherwise, had it not been for our terminology.

and dickgirl are slang terms. For our purposes, they are extremely useful, descriptive tags. From the outside looking in, however, they seem unnecessary and rude. To put it into perspective, imagine we decided that we would now tag all races by their respective racial slurs. For users who take offense to cuntboy/dickgirl, THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME.

To anyone who has one or more of the following opinions:

• Artists/character owners should ignore it/deal with it.
• So-and-so user sounds self-righteous, so we shouldn't listen to them.
• We shouldn't cave in to SJW demands - what's to stop them from changing another tag?

Get out.

Quit wasting our time. I don't care how long you've been hanging around your friends across the pond or how much the internet has desensitized you. Almost everywhere in the real world - surprise - if you call your mother a cunt, she probably won't like it.

And no, e621 isn't going to start caving in to SJW demands over any other tag. We're not stupid. As far as I know, cuntboy and dickgirl are the only major descriptor tags we use slang for (other than pussy, but that's another story).

The tags are going to change, now it's just a matter of determining what new, equally descriptive tags we should use. THIS is where our efforts should be focused on. We are PAST the point of discussing whether or not they are offensive. They are. We don't need an admin ruling to determine this.

tl;dr get busy deciding what we're aliasing these to.