April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
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Nyhm
MemberI like these stupid things.
SuperScum
MemberSince one of the mods is still drunk with "e-power" I feel the need to clarify for clerical accuracy this is a girly male and not a female character.
Random
MemberIt's not that hard to add. Done.
EightyNine
MemberTiny pointless rebellion against a misconceived notion.
Are you trying to re-enact the 1848 French Revolution?
Ratte
Former StaffYep, absolutely inebriated.
Imuthes
MemberAdmins don't just enforce the rules, they also make them.
It'd be great for this to show up in the list for girly male, but I guess search accuracy is less important to some people.
TrinityCrossZ
Memberit's too bad the admins are rather stupid in so many ways. going through, I noticed one such of these imbeciles claims that they can't be tagged for their gender ques (i.e. the males having longer snouts and no hair on the end of their tails) because these rules were introduced in the comic after some yinglet had appeared, despite them having their gender ques made apparent from the first few pages AND having them identified very quickly. let's not forget the first field guild page that revealed the gender difference was made roughly 3 years ago while the first bit of fan art is only 2 years old, thus the gender qeus were made out and set in stone before the first bit of fan made content was released and posted to this site. in short: the admins are fucking stupid and can't do even the SLIGHTEST bit of research, instead just crying "it looks like a chick, there for it is!" way to go admins, way to go. but, hey, they got the power right? they can denote the gender of the species they had absolutely no hand in creating whatsoever because they are the power. so lovely. and just wait, gonna get slapped with that 'tag what you see' shit, since it seems to be their only defense to this. fine then, I see a fine MALE yinglet strutting HIS fine assists to make a sale. enjoy.
bruvinluv
MemberWhat's all this drama about gender tagging?
Just post it yourself and tag it accurately if it bothers you so much.
Also, don't be a dick to a mod, because they can be dicks right back and harder.
Random
MemberHey now. Posting a thing doesn't give a user any more rights over the tagging system.
The latter is true though, yeah.
Cuda
MemberThat is why i have given up on trying to contribute to this website. Particularly the cuntboy vs flat_chested_female palaver.
Copeq
MemberCan't you just judge by the hip length? In humans do females have broader hiped skeletons. Or is that not good enough?
Random
MemberThe problem is well illustrated in this picture.
Artists draw "males/cuntboys" with feminine hip/shoulder proportions, softer features, and feminine hairstyles (Not so much this image but still), and say it's male/cuntboy because they say so.
"Because I say so" is not enough for e621, so it leads to a lot of frustration and friction between policy and artists/fans.
Fans can be even worse than the artists sometimes too.
See: mikhaila
Copeq
Member''The artist does not care what gender we tag.''
Yeah, that tells me all I need to know there.
KemanWicker
MemberAdmins locked it to incorrect tags. Lovely.
BlueMoonstruckWolf
MemberMight as well add that the “female” is missing the tail fluff, which is similar to being flat chested but more extreme?
You can be a slight fluffy tail male but not a fluffless female as far as I know.
At least we have the lore tag~
KemanWicker
MemberYeah, that's correct. A female could shave the tuft, I guess, but Lopin is confirmed in canon as male and also quite feminine in general
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