Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160430010301/@comment-53539-20160708145342

50.38.250.163 wrote: Angel, please don't use the term "transvestite". That's a really outdated and transphobic term. I really do not think you should police peoples' transgender headcanons especially if you are going to use transphobic language while doing so. It's really not a big deal, anyway, even if people think Flower is transgender in canon. It won't hurt her, she is only a character. People go against canon in their headcanons all the time. Would you jump on someone for portraying Luka as a high school student? That happens even more often than people portraying Flower as transgender, yet I see people talk about it maybe half as much. Why is it so important to you for Flower to be a cisgender woman? I didn't use the term - they did. I can't retell a tale without using the word they used otherwise it won't be the same. This is a unavoidable situation.

This is like when people complained about us using hermaphrodite for flower... Again we didn't didn't originally use the word, we're repeating the word from her developers.

The terms may be used incorrectly, but so is "irony"... People use for sarcasm, despite its suppose to be used when something achieves the opposite effect one is trying to do.

For example, during Ruby's controversy, people claimed to support Syo by 'Pocaloid her instead' to hurt PowerFX. Except it was confirmed Syo got a bonus based on sales, and Ruby got more vocals likewise which in turn got Syo more money. So they would not hurt PowerFX (PowerFX doesn't just do Vocaloid and Ruby was but 1 Vocaloid they sold in a chain of others before and yet to come) so much, but Syo plenty... Syo also had said he was sad by the idea people would steal his work. So the irony here is, in a effort to clim they supported Syo - they didn't and do more harm then good, presuming they saw their word through and it wasn't just bogus claims made out of knee jerk reaction.

I know words are often insensitive, but its like when you are trying to explain to a officer of the law what someone said word for word... If they swore or used racism or anything then that - you'll find yourself having to try and explain this.

Long story short, can't help it, this time it was unavoidable.