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(Tldr: This post doesn't have to do with whether FA has a drop-down for gender or not. It's about the people thinking gender tagging is irrelevant if you can just tag pps and bewbs)
Man, I'm pretty frustrated at the amount of people in the latest FA update journal who thinks gender identity and genitals/sex are the same thing, or that gender identity is NSFW. And the amount of pissy people upset about tagging their work.
No Gender and sex are not the same thing. No, Gender is not a nsfw aspect. It's a communicative aspect. Yes, there are more reasons to tag gender than for nsfw purposes.
One of the biggest uses of the gender tags in my works has been people easily being able to comment "aww he/she/they is cute" without having to do research into an OC just to find out how to refer to them as. And I know this is the case, because I see people commenting on characters that are otherwise gender-nuetral looking with their correct pronouns. For gender fluid OCs, I even give the correct pronouns for that specific artwork, and people still comment with the tagged Gender listing.
For searching content, yes for more than just looking up nsfw content. I've used the search of gendered tags if I'm trying to find a specific artwork I don't know the name of, but know I'm looking for a "blue, female, rabbit" in the "forest". It's for narrowing down searches better when needing to find things accurately.
And finally, Gender is NOT the same as your sex/genitals. In my Uluri art, I add the gender most suited for that art at the time as sometimes Uluri in art is Nonbinary, male, or female. And this is the case in all art both sfw or nsfw. Sometimes Uluri is male in some artwork, even though to an average person you wouldn't know. Uluri is inherently non-binary looking. And you know what, like I mentioned before people DO look at the gender marker and converse in comments using that set of pronouns.
As both a Nonbinary person myself, and a DID system, gender often does not match my sex. As such, often some of my OCs genders and Sex do not align either. Not all OCs are drawn with Gender and Sex aligning, the same as irl people. It's still important. It might not be important/relevent to specifically YOU, but that doesn't mean it isn't important to other people. It's an important communication tool.
(Tldr: This post doesn't have to do with whether FA has a drop-down for gender or not. It's about the people thinking gender tagging is irrelevant if you can just tag pps and bewbs)
Man, I'm pretty frustrated at the amount of people in the latest FA update journal who thinks gender identity and genitals/sex are the same thing, or that gender identity is NSFW. And the amount of pissy people upset about tagging their work.
No Gender and sex are not the same thing. No, Gender is not a nsfw aspect. It's a communicative aspect. Yes, there are more reasons to tag gender than for nsfw purposes.
One of the biggest uses of the gender tags in my works has been people easily being able to comment "aww he/she/they is cute" without having to do research into an OC just to find out how to refer to them as. And I know this is the case, because I see people commenting on characters that are otherwise gender-nuetral looking with their correct pronouns. For gender fluid OCs, I even give the correct pronouns for that specific artwork, and people still comment with the tagged Gender listing.
For searching content, yes for more than just looking up nsfw content. I've used the search of gendered tags if I'm trying to find a specific artwork I don't know the name of, but know I'm looking for a "blue, female, rabbit" in the "forest". It's for narrowing down searches better when needing to find things accurately.
And finally, Gender is NOT the same as your sex/genitals. In my Uluri art, I add the gender most suited for that art at the time as sometimes Uluri in art is Nonbinary, male, or female. And this is the case in all art both sfw or nsfw. Sometimes Uluri is male in some artwork, even though to an average person you wouldn't know. Uluri is inherently non-binary looking. And you know what, like I mentioned before people DO look at the gender marker and converse in comments using that set of pronouns.
As both a Nonbinary person myself, and a DID system, gender often does not match my sex. As such, often some of my OCs genders and Sex do not align either. Not all OCs are drawn with Gender and Sex aligning, the same as irl people. It's still important. It might not be important/relevent to specifically YOU, but that doesn't mean it isn't important to other people. It's an important communication tool.
(Tldr: This post doesn't have to do with whether FA has a drop-down for gender or not. It's about the people thinking gender tagging is irrelevant if you can just tag pps and bewbs)
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It's gonna be harder to just look up "Female Elf Character" for example or "Pokemon trainer guy" or something like that idk. It does have uses outside of NSFW of course. Some people on FA make clothes and if you're looking for women's wear or photos of something gender specific for inspiration then yeah you may need those tags. They had a real operational use and I don't see the benefit of getting rid of that drop down.
Edit:
I recomend Judith Buttler's Gender Trouble