Is light-skinned_female a valid tag? It's on over thousand posts, but I feel like splitting body color tags into gendered tags goes to the hyper specific tag territory that needs to be nuked from the orbit.

I say both light-skinned_* and dark-skinned_* (and light_skin and dark_skin) tags should be nuked. light skin is basically used to mean "not black", while dark skin is used to mean "not pasty white". I've seen "light skin" and "dark skin" tagged for the same skin shade on different posts. Plenty of posts tagged as "dark skin" that are essentially just an extremely minor sun tan, often due to another character with an even lighter complexion to contrast it (though not always), where on their own or with someone of a darker complexion, they would be tagged as "light skin" instead.

watsit said:
I say both light-skinned_* and dark-skinned_* (and light_skin and dark_skin) tags should be nuked. light skin is basically used to mean "not black", while dark skin is used to mean "not pasty white". I've seen "light skin" and "dark skin" tagged for the same skin shade on different posts. Plenty of posts tagged as "dark skin" that are essentially just an extremely minor sun tan, often due to another character with an even lighter complexion to contrast it (though not always), where on their own or with someone of a darker complexion, they would be tagged as "light skin" instead.

We'll instead move to this chart. Science!

Don't forget tan skin.