All female cats are cats and all male cats are hangovers
LouNeko@lemmy.world 2 months ago
All cats are girls and all dogs are boys, duh.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I went to school with a girl named Dayv (pronounced Dave). She went by Dayve (pronounced Davey).
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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.:)
starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 months 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 🙄.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 months ago
Things that feel bigoted but aren’t 😅
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 months 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”.
Godric@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Exactly! Is cats are girls and dogs are boys just a Germanic thing, or is it deeper?
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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”.