User blog comment:LucidPigeons/Category Cleanup/@comment-3581997-20160228102923/@comment-366087-20160228125248

Categories *are* highly useful in moderation. Some broad strokes info is just handy. Male & Female (or Villains & Villainesses)(plus maybe "Other Gender" and or "LGBT") is such an example. And with them in place, most gendered terms can be merged into gender-neutral. For example (not here I don't think, but still an example), Parents instead of "Mothers" & "Fathers". Siblings instead of "Brothers" & "Sisters". (Sons & Daughters is a "default-level" category unnecessary anywhere because *everyone* is *someone's* son or daughter as a fact of biological life.)

So some Life Role cats are useful.

From there, after the broad-strokes, finer detailed information needs to be challenged as to how much it defines characters and their villainy, and if they can be merged into larger Cats.