Stop un-gendering animals!

Is this a joke? People really want to worry about how we identify animals?

Women already do this. Every living creature is a he.

IT'S LITERAL RAPE!!

So are we supposed to inspect their genitals before we talk about them? Or ask them their preferred pronouns?

R2, what?!?

What about the transimals? How will they tell us their pronouns?

*In Defense of Animals and Animals & Media have partnered to call for Trump 2024.

What about the trans animals of colour?

I’m going to cancel myself, since I forgot to include trans animals of colour who are also sex workers.

I surveyed my 15 year old dog for her opinion on this matter. She licked her butt and grunted. That means she wants a treat and for me to leave her alone.

It also meant that humans are idiots and easy marks.

Someday, say in 2500, when the Gibbon of his generation writes his own "Decline and Fall," there will be a chapter or two dedicated to the absurdity and decadence and excess of this moment.

Oh, please. People with pets go out of their way to make sure you know the gender. It’s why I call everyone’s animal “Baby”.

I’ve been corrected for that as well, “She’s a full grown 27 month-old!” That’s a fucking baby and she’ll be dead within 14 years so fuck you.

You knew they’d apply this to wild animals. It implies they took the time to look for balls and are truly interested.

It sounds ridiculous but it makes sense. Perhaps if we call animals by she or he we won't be so horrible to them.

I mean, we treat animals almost as badly as the way Datlaoungers treat other Dataloungers.

I’ve never told an animal to lose weight, R12. Speaking of which....

Wait til they get a load of me...

I call my cat “Kween” because that little diva calls the shots in our home. My husband and I exist just to shovel her poop and give her cuddles when she wants them.

Still not as bad as those stupid YouTube videos where uploaders try to give human emotions to animals:

"Mother Dog Cries With Joy After Being Reunited With Her Puppies!"

R16, wait for the cats who use twitter. I can no longer pay attention to any writing - just focus on the photo/video.

Well, would you eat a male hot dog or a not-male wiener?

Animals Deserve Gender Pronouns, Too

Sometimes I forget and call my own cat “he” in my head.

Don’t animals deserve their own pronouns instead of borrowed human ones?

[quote] Women already do this. Every living creature is a he.

Women are the worst. Why do we even have them?

After skimming the NPR article, I realize I agree. It seems the argument is that we should use "he" and "she" rather than "it" to refer to animals, since animals are living things.

Things?

I thought that assuming gender was hate speech!

Seriously, though, some animals are not sexually dimorphic, and we can't tell male from female without endoscopes or DNA analysis. Our grammar is lacking there, we don't have a respectful term for a living being whose sex we can't determine, "it" may be gender-neutral but it also refers to inanimate objects.

The point of this (and it's not a new thing, having nothing to do with humans' current gender obsession) is to stop people from referring to animals as "it" in the hope that, as R12 says, they will think of animals as beings with their own lives and concerns, not unfeeling objects.

By the way, male seahorses aren't "pregnant" in the mammalian sense. They carry the eggs in an internal pouch, not a uterus, and fertilize the eggs deposited by the female. It's more like holding onto them while they develop and then expelling them. Do we say a female fish is "pregnant"? No, we don't.

Great. Next there will be a movement to maintain dog and cat fertility because of their right to procreate to maintain their species' cultures.

If I had a nickel....