Topic: "Tag what you see" does more harm than good

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So earlier, I was looking at this picture that was tagged as 'cuntboy'. So I figure, hey, I like dudes, and dudes with vaginas aren't too bad, because they're still dudes, right? So I start fapping to this character which was tagged a cuntboy, and all is good.

So later I find out that the character I fapped to wasn't actually a cuntboy, but an ordinary female that was just flat-chested and kind of boyish. See, I don't like fapping to females, because that's not my sexual orientation. So now I feel pretty fucked up, because I'm gay and I fapped to a chick. Because of factually inaccurate tagging policies enforced by administrators, I was tricked into sexualizing something I'm not attracted to, and that's really thrown a wrench into what I thought was an otherwise pretty solid sexual identity. I got turned on by a chick? But I'm gay! They said it wasn't a chick! What the fuck?! This is making me really anxious and unsure about who I am as a person! Everything was fine up until this point!

Now I don't feel safe or comfortable browsing the rest of this website, because characters in pictures are being misgendered due to poor and arguably sexist tagging policies that are enforced by administrators on a case-by-case basis. (I say 'arguably sexist' because arbitrarily declaring that a female character is a man because she has a "lack of feminine body physique" does not seem particularly fair to women in general.) I'm going to have to go to a booru like Sankaku that features plenty of furry art that I enjoy but doesn't falsify the tags in order to sate the compulsions of administrators that want to do everything their way and screw anyone that might be legitimately hurt by it.

This probably isn't going to change the status quo, but it might get people thinking. But at the very least, if you insist on keeping a toxic, controversial tagging policy where people are encouraged by admins to deliberately misgender characters based on regressive, stereotypical interpretations of how binary-gendered people are 'supposed' to look, at least be honest and change its name from "Tag What You See" to "Tag What The Admin Wants You To See". That way, at least everyone will be aware that they're being lied to for the sake of someone's obsessive desire for subjective visual consistency.

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