Comment on It bothers me when cat memes refer to the pictured cat as "he," but I can tell from its coat pattern that it's female. I may know too much about cats.

LouNeko@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve had a male cat and a female dog for the past 16 years and my dad still calls the dog he and the cat she 🙄.

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Things that feel bigoted but aren’t 😅

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m wondering what ratio of “gendered” languages uses the feminine genus for cats as opposed to dogs, as in “die Katze/der Hund”.

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      • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Exactly! Is cats are girls and dogs are boys just a Germanic thing, or is it deeper?

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      • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Many romance languages have both; for instance, in Catalan “gos” / “gossa”, “gat” / “gata”, in Spanish, “perro” / “perra”, “gato” / “gata”, or in French “chien” / “chienne”, “chat” / “chatte”.

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• tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  All female cats are cats and all male cats are hangovers

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  • urheber@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hihi

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We named a female cat Dave before we knew she was female (we were bottle feeding her before we got her fixed. thought she was male. the vet corrected us, but she came when we called Dave down the hall so we weren’t changing her name). So from then on Dave was male when he was bad, female when she was good, and enby when they were neither.

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But we can make it more complicated in Germany:
  “Kater” refers to male cats
  “Katze” refers to female cats as well as the neutral term for the animal.

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