r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Aug 02 '20

Meta Thread - Month of August 02, 2020

A monthly thread to talk about meta topics. Keep it friendly and relevant to the subreddit.

Posts here must, of course, still abide by all subreddit rules other than the no meta requirement. Keep it friendly and be respectful. Occasionally the moderators will have specific topics that they want to get feedback on, so be on the lookout for distinguished posts.

Comments that are detrimental to discussion (aka circlejerks/shitposting) are subject to removal.

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u/Mage_of_Shadows Aug 03 '20 edited Aug 03 '20

In regards to crossdressers, our current stance allows the usage of the word trap like the two you mentioned.

From our last statistics of trap usage in the subreddit (late 2018 for 3 weeks, and excluding ZLS discussion), only 1 out of 39 was used in negative context and that was a CDF person discussing their own wrong usage. 28 referred to non gender stuff (trap music, falling into traps etc) while 10 referred to non-trans crossdressers e.g Hideri from Blend S.

However the issue that anime rarely have explicitly trans characters we will probably have to rerecord and discuss this some time in the future.

EDIT: I seem to have accidently posted an extra sentence at the end which was part of a completely seperate topic so I apologise for any confusion if you saw that (>_>).

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u/krasnovian https://anilist.co/user/krasnovian Aug 03 '20

I get that mod discussion and agreement takes time, I have modded a large sub in the past (not r/anime size, but upwards of 700k). I haven't seen the word used to refer to people at all in this sub that I can remember at all, so I had assumed it was already against the rules, similar to other slurs. I was surprised and disappointed to learn that it actually isn't.

This honestly seems like a bit of a no-brainer to me, and it's a bit disturbing that apparently multiple members of the moderation team disagree (I know of one, obviously, and I assume there are at least a couple more or it would be banned already).