kiyah123 said:
So purely from a tagger's point of view, how exactly is 1other meant to be used to distinguish it from 1girl and 1boy? The current definition is very hazy. 'characters that don't fit into binary gender categories'. What exactly does this mean and how do we identify these characters?
Is it only for when the gender isn't officially known in a copyright and so should only be tagged with the suggested genderless tag? How would this work for original characters?
Is a 'sex characteristic' simply the genitals or the changes one goes due to puberty? If so then shouldn't say post #2931814 be tagged as 1other since you can't tell in the image itself whether 1girl or 1boy should be tagged? Also note that many artist's draw otoko no ko basically the same as their female characters (i.e. with the same body type that would normally be associated with females), so should many of these be considered 1other?
Let's state the actual wiki definition first at least.
Here's how I, personally, would define its usage:
Used for characters of ambiguous, mixed, or unknown physical sex, such as:
1) Canon characters that both have no established canon gender and are being drawn without visible sex characteristics (defined here as genitalia, breast tissue, adam's apple, etc.; things like wide hips and hairstyles aren't definitive enough).
2) Original characters that have no creator-confirmed gender and that are drawn ambiguously (appearance that would generally fall under the androgynous and/or ambiguous gender tags).
3) Canon or original characters that have a mixed physical sex presentation. A blatant example would be futanari characters with both male and female genitalia visible in the image.
Open to suggestion, obviously.
Under this definition, it wouldn't apply to images like the example post #2931814, because although the character has no visible sex characteristics and no artist-confirmed gender, they aren't drawn in any way ambiguously; for all intents and purposes, they are presented as and assumed to be female. Like this, we preserve tag-what-you-see except for in special cases of overarching canon, which would be my ideal way of handling it.
The tag would primarily handle ambiguous-looking original characters or genderless/gender-unconfirmed canon characters, such as chevalier d'eon, the houseki no kuni gems, frisk/chara and so forth.