Wait why are we tagging this as "1boy"? There's no indication of the Doctor's gender here, and no indication when it comes to Pixiv tags. The Doctor in game doesn't have a gender and because of this many images of the doctor are tagged as "1other", specifically ones like this where we the doctor's gender is completely undefined.
Wait why are we tagging this as "1boy"? There's no indication of the Doctor's gender here, and no indication when it comes to Pixiv tags. The Doctor in game doesn't have a gender and because of this many images of the doctor are tagged as "1other", specifically ones like this where we the doctor's gender is completely undefined.
I would argue the P-head producer and T-head admiral argument as inherently false. They're almost always drawn with a masculine body type, and dressed in clothing that would make it immediately apparent if they were intended to be female. The face isn't the only way to tell a character's gender.
Doctor (Arknights) is specifically dressed in an outfit that's bulky enough to conceal any identifying features, and by definition of the 1other tag that's the tag that should be used if no gender features are present in the image. The doctor has no officially established gender, so labeling them male by default goes against tagging policies.
Female Doctor (Arknights) exists for the same reason the female admiral/commander tags exist, because a doctor_(arknights) 1girl search isn't useful for finding images of a female doctor when the majority of the cast is female. The existence of male characters might be an good argument for making a male doctor (arknights) tag, in light of that, but I don't think it's needed as much.
I would argue the P-head producer and T-head admiral argument as inherently false. They're almost always drawn with a masculine body type, and dressed in clothing that would make it immediately apparent if they were intended to be female. The face isn't the only way to tell a character's gender.
And yet we have characters like Oogami Sakura for example that looks completely male but aren't.
blindVigil said:
Doctor (Arknights) is specifically dressed in an outfit that's bulky enough to conceal any identifying features, and by definition of the 1other tag that's the tag that should be used if no gender features are present in the image. The doctor has no officially established gender, so labeling them male by default goes against tagging policies.
Female Doctor (Arknights) exists for the same reason the female admiral/commander tags exist, because a doctor_(arknights) 1girl search isn't useful for finding images of a female doctor when the majority of the cast is female.
And yet we have characters like Oogami Sakura for example that looks completely male but aren't.
And we tag her as female because we know she is, do we not? I assume if we didn't know her gender, we'd be tagging her as male, because that's how she appears. If you're saying we should start tagging T-head Admiral and P-head Producer as 1other, I don't really have anything against that, but neither of these points have any bearing on how we tag the doctor.
Regular adult admirals are usually drawn with visible faces, making it pretty clear what gender they're supposed to be, if we're just going to disregard tagging body types as they appear unless you know the character isn't the gender they appear to be. The doctor, when wearing the standard masked outfit, is not visibly one gender or the other.
Commander (Azur Lane) and commander (girls frontline) being canonically male doesn't really have any bearing on the doctor not being canonically anything. I'm not sure how often they're drawn ambiguously, either.
And we tag her as female because we know she is, do we not? I assume if we didn't know her gender, we'd be tagging her as male, because that's how she appears. If you're saying we should start tagging T-head Admiral and P-head Producer as 1other, I don't really have anything against that, but neither of these points have any bearing on how we tag the doctor.
More or less, yes, unless you see male or female body parts. And it was an example showing that you can't always assume a charater's gender based on their covered body shape alone.
The point was that the Admiral tag is for (according to the wiki) "male admirals only" (even though canonically they have no gender, same as the Doctor) while the younger male version instead specifies the gender in the tag name, it feels like both should follow the same naming scheme because a young version of "Admiral" should be obviously male.
Anyway I've stated my opinion about the Doctor tag so we'll wait and see what happens.
More or less, yes, unless you see male or female body parts. And it was an example showing that you can't always assume a charater's gender based on their covered body shape alone.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your stance. It sounds like you're suggesting that characters that are visually male and have no information contradicting their appearance shouldn't be tagged male if we decide that a character that is visually ambiguous from head to toe shouldn't be tagged as male. But because those characters are already tagged as male, the ambiguous character should also be tagged as male, for nothing more than consistency's sake.
That just simply doesn't make any sense. The only thing even relating the discussed characters is the lack of facial features.
Oogami Sakura in particular is an extremely fringe example that cannot be applied to the majority of cases. Most characters don't have such a visually contradicting appearance to their true nature.
Isn't the official commander in girls frontline female, gentiane (girls frontline)? Anyways, it's not hard to just go and tag all masked doctor (arknights) as 1other. It's not like there's hundreds of pics of them.
More or less, yes, unless you see male or female body parts. And it was an example showing that you can't always assume a charater's gender based on their covered body shape alone.
The thing about P-head Producer is that we know that it's based on the producer of the games (and has a male voice in Puchimasu!), so it doesn't turn heads when someone tags it as 1boy. So P-head is a different case than what we deal with in the other cases.
The thing about P-head Producer is that we know that it's based on the producer of the games (and has a male voice in Puchimasu!), so it doesn't turn heads when someone tags it as 1boy. So P-head is a different case than what we deal with in the other cases.
Wait, P-head Producer is canon? I didn't know this, sorry.
Wait, P-head Producer is canon? I didn't know this, sorry.
It's both non-canon and semi-canon, a really strange case. But pretty much 1boy. Anyway, my only point was that it's hard to use as reference for this and the other cases.
It's both non-canon and semi-canon, a really strange case. But pretty much 1boy. Anyway, my only point was that it's hard to use as reference for this and the other cases.
