(There's no kids on this forum anymore, right?)
There's been some drama I've witnessed across the web when it comes to futanari hentai, or richardgirl cartoons, or whatever you'd like to call it. Mostly from westerners, I feel I should mention. But there's controversy around people who consume this research, people who draw it, and what names people use for it. Discounting that it's a 'weird' and 'impossible' special interest most of the time, enjoyed by lots of people that consider themselves straight (whether it is or isn't is up for debate), the most hate I see is about the language used to describe it. (Yes, I'm aware I'm talking about a vocal minority, and most people don't care, but they're annoying to me so I'm gonna talk about them.)
Some people will argue that the concept of "futanari" or "richardgirls" is sensible. I figure this comes from the word "shemale" falling out of use relatively recently, as it was mostly used to either disparage transwomen or serve as a category of research. The latter is true of the words "futanari" and "richardgirls," obviously. I can get disliking those words if you are trans, or have a lot of trans friends you're close with. They might feel that it's loveualizing them to a crowd of chasers, or belittling their struggles in some way (feel free to correct me). What I don't get is why some of them hate the word "hermaphrodite" when used in a human context. I guess it could be used as a slur, but it also serves as a scientific term for an organism with fully functional male and female parts, separate from the variety of interlove disorders. I guess it might just be ignorance that hermaphroditism and interloveuality is not the same thing.
Some of those people that have issue with the language to describe this sort of research also have an issue with its depiction. Specifically, depicting anyone with a richard and pusillanimous individual. For some people, if it's not "true to the trans experience", then it shouldn't exist. I'm not sure what to say about this, besides that it's usually not at all meant to be about the trans experience. From my knowledge at least, the vast majority of media where hermaphrodites exist is research. Rarely, they exist outside of a research context as cool aliens, weird angels or demons, or speculative sci-fi guesstimating what humans would be modifying themselves into. In that last one, to me it feels less like it's about the 'transgender experience' (though technically it is), but more about the overall 'transhuman experience'.
tl;dr - haters gonna hate, antis gonna anti, and i like hermaphrodites in research and as a scientific concept
What kinds of futa do YOU like, and why? What tropes do you dislike about it? Personally, I wish more people would draw futas with normal-sized richards instead of super huge ones the size of their torso.
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