A couple of months ago, I was in a multistream with some artists I'm not gonna name. One of them was drawing a couple of girls with penises, and after a brief convo in the stream chat I said "herms are cool."

Well, one of the other streamers just chews me the fuck out about it, saying herm and futa are offensive and they'd never use slurs like that. The person it was directed to was cool about it, so I just kinda chalked it up to a fluke occurrence.

Well more and more I keep seeing it on people's pages and adoptables and whatnot. "Don't use slurs like herm to refer to my characters" "If you adopt this character Don't use hurtful slurs like herm"

Last i was aware, herm was an abbreviated technical term for a creature born with both reproductive organs, so....what? Like i guess It's for people with trans or, god forbid, non binary characters, and I can understand not wanting confusion or mislabelling like that, but herm characters exist too.

And even besides all that, the worst context I've ever heard someone use the word was "I find herms disgusting," and similar sentiments, which really has nothing to do with the word itself. I've never seen someone use herm in a derogatory fashion, so this just kind of baffles me.