For the past few weeks, I've been making an effort to cross-post more, in order to make sure that communities that I'm interested in have some content and attention. I've been primarily focused on keeping up a steady stream of posts to !teen_loli, but a lot of those also fit in on !rapehentai and !incest_hentai, and occasionally !bdsm_hentai_and_art or !bluearchive. I tend to stick to just posting to the two most relevant communities for any given post, though.
I also created and have been posting to !dickgirl_hentai, but I tend to refrain from cross-posting those elsewhere. I get the feeling that maybe people don't want to see those posts, even if their fetishes are otherwise involved?
It feels like I'm creating/following a weird double-standard though. For rape/incest/etc content, I just tag the fetish in the title so that those that don't want to see it can avoid clicking. I don't think of trans women as a fetish though, so it feels weird to warn about them? Additionally, the original creator of !incest_hentai designated it as trans-inclusive (and I've done the same with !teen_loli), so it's extra-weird to avoid cross-posting there, which is what got me thinking about this in the first place. What do?
As an aside, the name of !dickgirl_hentai has also been bothering me. I originally went with that because it's what booru sites typically use to differentiate transgirl futanari from intersex. It feels kind of offensive though? Is there a better name that would still get the point across? Am I overthinking this?
-- In this comment I assume a gender binary for clarity. Arguments extend naturally to gender spectrum! --
I think you brushed on the most important detail here:
I don't think (and correct me if I am wrong) the term "futa" makes any assertion, a priori, on the gender of the character it references. The problem with our terminology in English is multifaceted:
So, unfortunately, we are stuck with either
The first is nearly impossible for obvious reasons. The second is what we currently do with "futa" in combination with the third. I've seen "full-package futa" to refer to a character with a vagina, penis, and testicles, for example.
I understand that people have different preferences for what they're attracted to: people could want to see any combination of the three genitalia above, and so terms to refer to any such combination is reasonable. As long as it refers to non-real people (that does not allow artistic depictions of real people, to be clear), and is not used as a sole term^1^ for characters with canonical gender identities involving their assigned gender at birth^2^, "<adjective> futa" seems like a fine term to me.
1: At this point, I am working within the framework that "<adjective> futa" is a sex identifier, not a gender identifier; thus, there is no reason to object to its use in conjunction with a gender identifier so long as it does not take the place of said gender identifier as appropriate.
2: As a logical consequence one would also not like for "<adjective> futa" to be used in exclusion of "<adjective> futa woman", where woman refers to gender. That being said, I am unsure if this is really necessary as it is unclear to me if one's attraction to a "futa" character actually involves the gender of the character or only their sexual characteristics (after all, "futa" does describe sexual characteristics, so it would make sense that gender is not necessarily a factor for attraction here). As such, I only assert that it is problematic to use "futa" as a sole identifier when gender is made clear in the story. I mention assigned gender at birth since pronoun usage implicitly identifies a gender, more or less, which is a facet of language more than story-telling, and thus shouldn't be the determining factor.
Keep in mind, I am a transgender woman, not an intersex person or a transgender person who has had bottom surgery resulting in a set of genitalia differing from the sex binary. I think those groups can identify more closely with characters who are called "futa" in pornography, so I would love to hear from someone in either of those groups!