Thread:Mesektet/@comment-4234382-20151018014313/@comment-3581997-20151018032222

Honestly they seem rather pointless to me, however there are many other categories in a more dire need of curtailing. They have been on my to do list for some time but low priory.

We have Male and Female Damsels, let's not kid our selves this is done because users want to imagine/see-pictures-of heroes and heroines tied up or hanging upside-down or subject to possession and the male/female separation is all about preference. Similarly Lead Male and Lead Female is about being able to assign someone as the alpha-male/female role. Whenever someone assigns a specifically male and specifically female version of the same category, other than just a binary male/female heroes, it's about sexual titillation. "Male Cops"/ "Female Cops" over just Cops, would mean someone wants a quick category to look at heroes in uniform along gender lines. For Lead Male and Lead Females, both are silly and rather pointless since the "Leaders" and "Male Heroes" and "Heroines", are going to be applied to the pages anyway and having a third category with the previous two is pointless.

But removing it is going to create a backlash so I've let it be while we attend to the truely junk categories. Use your best judgement, if you want to draw that line here fine we will start on it.