This issue has been mentioned countless times, so I'll keep this simple. This is not a proposal to expand the functionality of the current tags, it's simply a few suggestions to improve what already exists through modifying the rules of existing tags. The ultimate goal is to make tagging more uniform and make searching more convenient, at minimal expense to the people doing the tagging and wiki edits.
These are separate options, listed in order of amount of reorganization needed (ascending).
1. Remove the maleherm -> herm implication
Maleherm already has its own accessory tags and the meaning is obvious from the name alone if the user is familiar with the other more popular gender tags. De-implication would separate the two terms, letting people do searches like herm maleherm duo to reliably find a herm character and a maleherm character. Currently the implication gives a maleherm character two gender tags.
My suggested tag script:
if maleherm, -herm
After the change, the tags would resemble this:
2. Add femaleherm
Herm would act as an umbrella group for maleherm and femaleherm (akin to intersex:dickgirl, cuntboy, herm, etc.), which is an improvement because the tag served two different purposes: representing all hermaphrodite characters, and representing hermaphrodite characters who are not maleherm (there are no other tags implicate to herm that don't explicitly have it in their name).
This would move the responsibility of representing feminine herm characters to femaleherm, and maintain the responsibility of an umbrella term to the herm tag.
My suggested tag script:
if herm -maleherm, femaleherm
After the change, the tags would resemble this:
3. Implicate cuntboy -> female and male -> dickgirl
Keeping the site uniform will make it more predictable for the userbase. If the two characters appeared to possess the same biological sex, and they have different names for their gender based on their (non-sexual) appearance, then the masculine version of the sex should imply the feminine version.
None of the herm tags are affected, no new tags are created, and the tagging system becomes more uniform! How neat is that, everyone wins!
My suggested tag script:
( none required! :3 )
After the change, the tags would resemble this:
- female: A character who possess female reproductive organs, regardless of presentation or secondary sex characteristics.
- dickgirl: A character who possess male reproductive organs, regardless of presentation or secondary sex characteristics.
- herm: A character who possess both male and female reproductive organs, regardless of presentation or secondary sex characteristics.
tl;dr
It's weird how the rules are totally different between cuntboy:female / male:dickgirl and herm:maleherm, despite these three pairs being functionally the same (masculine/feminine versions of the same biological sex (or breasts/no breasts if you prefer)).
cuntboy:female, both tags are separate and do not imply each other. They are differentiated on basis of physical appearance, even though they have the same primary (absolutely necessary) reproductive organs.
All three of these solutions aim to amend this inequality, or at least make them somewhat relevant to each other.
Updated by SnowWolf