name it something neutral and only refer to it as "they" or "it"?
idk i'd probably just pick a gender at random because it's a fucking dog and it cares about table scraps and sleeping on the couch and find the perfect spot to pee, not what pronouns i'm using when i speak to it in a language it will never understand.
probably because a huge part of the politics of human gender is respecting the right of the individual to define themselves and to use the pronouns preferred by the person in question. but since animals don't have any such concept or any such concern, it's silly to even debate.
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-07 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)if u had a pet that was intersex what pronouns would u use? how would u decide?
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:00 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:02 am (UTC)(link)how do u choose
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:04 am (UTC)(link)sort of annoying that you are trying to draw some comparison between intersex animals and humans. animals don't give a shit hth
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:07 am (UTC)(link)i am not drawing a comparison I'm just wondering what people who do
seriously who thinks the dog cares, but u have to refer to the dog at some point and im wondering how u would choose
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:01 am (UTC)(link)because girls are better
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:11 am (UTC)(link)tho i have a bird whose sex we don't know and i call him him, b/c he was already named "roy" and also he's a fucking jackass
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:15 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:01 am (UTC)(link)not like my pet would gaf
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:01 am (UTC)(link)because its a fucking dog
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:06 am (UTC)(link)it's an "it"
deal with it
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:07 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:03 am (UTC)(link)idk i'd probably just pick a gender at random because it's a fucking dog and it cares about table scraps and sleeping on the couch and find the perfect spot to pee, not what pronouns i'm using when i speak to it in a language it will never understand.
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:03 am (UTC)(link)i would probably use female pronouns bc i do that when idk the pet's gender. besides, it's an animal, it doesn't give a fuck
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:04 am (UTC)(link)we all know that
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:11 am (UTC)(link)it was wondering what ppl would do and for some reason everybody is acting like it was some serious matter
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:12 am (UTC)(link)gender politics and preferred pronouns is a loaded topic for a good reason
so this "lulz but what about my dawg" semi-trolling is sort of tacky
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-08 12:14 am (UTC)(link)ppl were talking about gender pronouns and dogs
so i asked a question that was entirely on topic
how is that trolling
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