I noticed there are male death and female death tags. Together they have over 3000 uses, but no implications. Do we need these, or are they overly specific?

I think that's too specific, yeah. I think generally if you're going to be searching for a particular gender, you'll already have a gender tag in your search. If I want a particular gender in a particular situation, say a man washing the dishes, I never think "oh surely I can squeeze both the sex and the action into one tag to invent a male_dishwashing tag", I'll just do the normal thing I do and search "male dishwashing". I really don't think death should be any different, plus the wikis for both tags are literally identical with only the gender to show they're different.

Usually, if you are doubting the validity of tags, check and see if they are solely populated by one person.
In this case, male_death & female_death are the handiwork of @beedrill77 and nobody else seems to be using those tags.

Should they be aliased to <gender> or to death?

Death

Definitely death

I tagged with female_death sometimes because I noticed them on the list with so many hits and I thought it's an established tag, thinking that maybe some people are more bothered by deaths of women more and would want to blacklist it, but not death in general.

The bulk update request #11662 is pending approval.

create alias male_death (1004) -> death (19998)
create alias female_death (2213) -> death (19998)
create alias intersex_death (128) -> death (19998)
create alias gynomorph_death (58) -> death (19998)
create alias andromorph_death (0) -> death (19998)

Reason: As suggested.

beholding said:
The bulk update request #11662 is pending approval.

create alias male_death (1004) -> death (19998)
create alias female_death (2213) -> death (19998)
create alias intersex_death (128) -> death (19998)
create alias gynomorph_death (58) -> death (19998)
create alias andromorph_death (0) -> death (19998)

Reason: As suggested.

I'll have to agree that gendered death tags are not really necessary.

beholding said:
The bulk update request #11662 is pending approval.

create alias male_death (1004) -> death (19998)
create alias female_death (2213) -> death (19998)
create alias intersex_death (128) -> death (19998)
create alias gynomorph_death (58) -> death (19998)
create alias andromorph_death (0) -> death (19998)

Reason: As suggested.

Alias the full set while you're at it
male, female, gynomorph, andromorph, herm, maleherm, and intersex

I know people in the snuff community have gender preferences but I think these are just tag bloat, so I think it’s fair to alias them

I don't think it's necessary to have gender-specific death tags. But, I can totally imagine some sick mofos with death fetish finding such tags helpful xD

manitka said:
I know people in the snuff community have gender preferences but I think these are just tag bloat, so I think it’s fair to alias them

honestly, thinking about it, kinda feel like an <x>_snuffed might actually make sense as a tag group while <x>_death does not. there's something about the intentionality of it that makes it feel more tag-like.

donovan_dmc said:
Alias the full set while you're at it
male, female, gynomorph, andromorph, herm, maleherm, and intersex

Wasn't aware we had those. I'll exclude the herm versions since those don't currently have any uses, but I've added the others.

dba_afish said:
honestly, thinking about it, kinda feel like an <x>_snuffed might actually make sense as a tag group while <x>_death does not. there's something about the intentionality of it that makes it feel more tag-like.

Agreed, I think that explicitly sexual situations do justify gendered variants.

dba_afish said:
honestly, thinking about it, kinda feel like an <x>_snuffed might actually make sense as a tag group while <x>_death does not. there's something about the intentionality of it that makes it feel more tag-like.

might work, i think the issue is most of the snuff community thinks of all erotic death art as snuff, while e6 only allows death art featuring visible pleasure from the killer or victim to be tagged as snuff