Ultexia said:
The child post is tagged as male because that's Bridget's default assumed gender and there is nothing to suggest otherwise in the image itself.
This just goes against tagging policy IMO. Danbooru works (in theory) on Tag What You See, seeing a feminine character with breasts (fake or otherwise) should be tagged as a girl unless there is evidence to prove otherwise. Adding Bridget's specific tag policy on top of that, I feel those pics should only be tagged as male if she's literally saying "I'm a guy BTW" in the image (IIRC, commentary doesn't count, not that it would apply to those posts anyways).
I understand Bridget and other otoko no ko characters have to go against TWYS on principle. But once breasts are added to the equation, it gets really hard to see them as male characters and not genderswapped, at the least.
Bridget in particular, shouldn't be tagged as male once breasts are in the equation. Breasts are the "physical evidence" her wiki entry is talking about (aside from the other obvious evidence).
as a side note, i still can't believe there are sugajyun bridget_(guilty_gear) 1boy swimsuit pics. i don't want to participate in a tag war 😭 post #8255711 i get because there's no breasts, but the rest all have boobs and no bulge, like GIVE ME A BREAK
cranberrie said:
I have thought about this more with the posts I mentioned and the idea that Bridget's "default assumed gender" here is male and this is what I've arrived at personally on the subject.
From my understanding, tagging is supposed to be objective where possible and Tag What You See is supposed to be the primary approach. Therefore, when faced with a case where the gender of a character via TWYS is ambiguous and you want to use an assumed gender to tag, shouldn't the assumed gender be based on the up to date intended gender by the creators of the character and source material to be as accurate as possible? In this case, the creator and their current official content label this character as female whenever gendered.
Therefore I would argue that tagging the character as male in cases where TWYS fails goes against the up-to-date and factual descriptions of the character by the creator, and therefore doing so is subjective tagging. The only reasons to do so would be personal bias or personal disagreement with the creator on the character's current portrayal, neither of which are objective reasons to tag a character.
In an ideal world, Bridget (at least in Strive related posts) would be tagged as a girl, but a sizable amount of the user-base are very against the notion. (I find it endlessly stupid that official images have her tagged as a guy, but what can you do)
It also doesn't help that Bridget was the first big otoko no ko icon, so to speak. It's hard to shake that label off of her. Testament in comparison had a very easy time transitioning over to using 1other (also helps that they were basically non-binary/gender-neutral from the beginning in japan)