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The tag alias #76383 feminine -> femboy has been rejected.
Reason: The wiki description claims this tag is defunct and should be replaced by femboy.
EDIT: The tag alias feminine -> femboy (forum #448342) has been rejected by @spe.
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The alias of feminine -> girly was removed in topic #38587 and intentionally not reinstated
The wiki description is inaccurate, then. What should be done with feminine?
The tag alias feminine -> femboy (forum #448342) has been rejected by @spe.
In addition to the wiki being outdated, the tag currently contains quite a few females and gynomorphs, so an alias would cause a bunch of mistags.
I think we eventually wanted to have things like femboy imply feminine and manly and tomboy imply masculine and so on, but I don't think there was ever a BUR made for that. We could at least get a vote going on that, perhaps.
How is this for a revised description?
Feminine describes a character who shows physical characteristics traditionally associated with women. This may include physical features such as a slim figure, wide hips, or long hair, or clothing, such as dresses, skirts, and bow ribbons. They may also prominent feature the color pink in either pink clothing or a pink body.
Note that this descriptor is not exclusive to female characters. For male characters with a feminine appearance, see femboy.
I noticed masculine also erroneously claims it has been aliased to manly. That will also need to be cleaned up.
spe said:
I think we eventually wanted to have things like femboy imply feminine and manly and tomboy imply masculine and so on, but I don't think there was ever a BUR made for that. We could at least get a vote going on that, perhaps.
donovan_dmc said:
The intention was to legitimize it as a tag for any gendered character with a feminine body, and the same with masculine
That got lost in the churn of life at some point and the tags just got left to sit
masculine males and feminine females... that sounds like it'd be, uh, difficult to quantify.
femboy and tomboy are easy since they're just "character whose gender presentation leans into <presentation of opposing gender categories>". if we create tags that can be applied to characters regardless of their gender category, I feel like it'd get messy.
would any female/male character who dosn't present as almost totally androgynous be subject to these tags? or would it only apply to characters who go beyond the "average" amount of masculine or feminine for their associated gender category? I'm not sure either of these situations would really make for a very satisfactory tag identity.
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dba_afish said:
masculine males and feminine females... that sounds like it'd be, uh, difficult to quantify.femboy and tomboy are easy since they're just "character whose gender presentation leans into <presentation of opposing gender categories>". if we create tags that can be applied to characters regardless of their gender category, I feel like it'd get messy.
would any female/male character who dosn't present as almost totally androgynous be subject to these tags? or would it only apply to characters who go beyond the "average" amount of masculine or feminine for their associated gender category? I'm not sure either of these situations would really make for a very satisfactory tag identity.
I second this. I'm not a fan of manly for the same reason.
Like, these two posts come up in the first four examples for masculine, but I see nothing that would meaningfully distinguish them from a regular male tag.
