Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26174543-20180807015607/@comment-35524413-20190909211013

Tobimisa wrote: first of all, I already said it but I'm going to say it again, the creator of this voicebank is japanese. they either did not use an english term for this character at all (the most likely option because again, they are japanese) or they don't have the context to understand the term itself. because a g a i n, the way the term was originally described didn't even match up to the definition of hermaphrodite.

the character was described as identifying with multiple genders at the same time, an intersex person/hermaphrodite is someone born with sex characteristics from multiple biological genders, such as someone who was born outwardly male having a womb. those two definitions do not align, being intersex does not inherently mean that someone will identify with multiple genders or that they identify with a different gender than the one that they were assigned. saying specifically that they're a hermaphrodite and nothing else would actually be misrepresenting the information. hence the suggestion and implimentation of the term bigender, which Does allign with identifying with multiple genders at once

and moreover, "hermaphrodite" is no longer used in a medical context, intersex is. those two terms are literally different names for the same medical condition with one being the outdated form of the other that's taken on a negative connotation due to usage outside of medical contexts. the stance that you're taking right now is identical to arguing that r*tard should be an acceptable substitute for autistic and justifying it by insisting that it'd be truer to a japanese person's vision if english speaking people that they will never meet called their creation a slur.

you're not fooling anyone, you clearly don't actually understand the subject matter based on the arguments that you've made. you're just upset because you personally don't see the value in respecting people different from you. yes language will always change with the times, but that's because society is always changing and the way people interact with that society will always change. if you have no desire to make an effort then that's your business, but you don't get to pretend that it's amoral for somebody else to care just because you don't you sound big mad lmao. you really typed 4 paragraphs to tell me how 'bigoted' i am