Re: Gender
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 6, 2001, 8:48 |
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>:
>
> > Incidentally, I went to the zoo today and discovered that as far as
> > I'm
> > concerned, every animal, regardless of sex, is male in gender. It seems
> > a
> > very grandmother thing to do, though, as (IME) they tend to call all
> > animals male, even if they know for a fact that it's female.
> >
>
> Even cats? I've been taught that cats were considered female in
> gender, unless their sex was known...
Well, the big and small cats, yes. While we only had a female cat, and
with other people's cats, I tended to call them `she', but now that we
have a male cat, they've both become `he', and so have other people's, to
some degree. Is it really accurate to call neutered cats male and female?
Tristan
anstouh@yahoo.com.au
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