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.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
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Furrin Gok
Member"Male"
What?
Sahlohkin
Memberno clit, no urethra, yet still not a cloaca, it's a genital slit.
Furrin Gok
MemberWell, sure, but that doesn't make it male.
StarmanInTheSky
Blockedhttps://e621.net/forum/show/169276
Furrin Gok
MemberHey, thanks. I was looking for that thread. Give it a read yourself:
Now, this guy does lack the clitoris, which isn't a point largely covered there. That's something that should better fall under ambiguous_gender, as tag what you see is a rule we use here.
StarmanInTheSky
BlockedI know that “tag what you see” is a rule and I did just that. What I see is a Garchomp that clearly has a genital slit making it male. That is definitely not how a vagina looks like.
Furrin Gok
MemberGenital slits are ambiguous, simply because it could be a female without a clitoris.
StarmanInTheSky
BlockedBut aren’t male reptiles the only ones with genital slits?
Plus, the physique of this Garchomp is more akin to a male. I know females can be that muscular too, but some artists usually put feminine features to differentiate it so people don’t mistake the character for being the opposite gender.
Furrin Gok
MemberNope, they get cloaca. It's male marine mammals that end up with genital slits, but for the purposes of gender tagging that's not so relevant.
This, however, is, and is why I haven't touched the tags. My own mind tells me this is a cuntboy, but I know that my perception doesn't effect tagging. Waiting on staff to announce how the tagging works in this case, it may be right as is.
Furrin Gok
MemberAt least, that's what the linked thread seemed to suggest >.>
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