Freelance writer, Lauren R. Taylor, recently penned a piece for The Washington Post describing her efforts to address her cats in gender neutral plural pronouns- they, their and them- rather than singular he and her.
About halfway through the article she demonstrates the shift in pronouns and instantly causes confusion when describing what happed when one of the animals fell ill.
“They were really sick. I took them to the vet…” It took me a few seconds to realize she was still talking about only one of her animals and not some kind of outbreak of a contagious disease infecting all her cats.
“It is confusing. We’ve had gender drilled into us as part of language since we first heard adults talking when we were infants – decades of “he” and “she.”
But at the same time it’s necessary.”
No, no it’s not necessary. For cats or for people.
The woman (I guess) needs a hobby. Preferably one that doesn’t require the use of sharp objects.
My cats are gender neutral … they were all “fixed”.
I would suggest the same happen to the author.
This is silly. People who like cats should be more worried about today’s real issues, the most serious of which is excessive feline inbreeding. To illustrate this problem, here’s a disturbing example of an inbred cat:
http://tinyurl.com/hhewhk8
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The stupid never ends.
The woman is stupid. Anyone who wants to do away with gender pronouns is a moron.
Cats can’t be boys or girls anyway. Boy and girl refer to human males and females respectively.
I laughed at the crazy cat lady starter kit! That’s funny, in a cute sort of way.
Does this fool believe that cats speak English?
Cats don’t give a fuck – feed em and give em a place to shit – that’s all they need.
izlamo delenda est …
I’m only using “he or she” in cat talk for our baby Pumpkin kitten because we don’t know yet if Pumpkin is male or female yet, all we know is that Pumpkin Pie kitten is adorable! To do so after you know what they are is nuts, and far beyond crazy cat lady nuts, it’s batshiteffingcrazyfeminism nuts! Was the person in the article a gender studies major in college?
From the lunatic:
We’ve had gender drilled into us as part of language since we first heard adults talking when we were infants – decades of “he” and “she.”
Anything in that skull of yours dunce? Gender is considerably more than ‘a part of our language’. Does this idiot have no concept of anatomy and physiology?
This bleep, bleep, bleeping village idiot gives crazy cat ladies like me a bad name. I resent that and am outraged. Crazy cat ladies must unite to rid our ranks of the gibbering insane. First we must seize her cats as she is obviously not a fit servant to cats.
Must be getting paid by the word or something, because for the love of God and all that is holy, who cares.
Lady, seek help. And for anyone commenting at the WaPo in support of the confused Ms (has to be Ms; no way there’s a man involved) Taylor, get them help too.
It is cruel and stupid to take your deliberate insanity to a business place of professional people performing serious work and play with and confuse them with your idiocy. I would like to see the veterinarian tell her to get out and come back in when she wanted to discuss her cats problems in normal, English, human-speak.
As an afterthought, which may seem trifling, but really isn’t if one considers how the language has been corrupted and co-opted to further the cause of socialism, confusion, and chaos – “gender” is a grammatical term, not biological.
Biology shows two (2) sexes – male and female.
(ignoring hermaphroditism, fission, &c.)
And grammar has three (3 – “masculine,” “feminine,” and “neutral”) “genders,” which denotes something of importance to whatever rat-language is involved. I barely speak Engrish, so I have no idea, whatsoever, how these things actually matter, except in being mis-appropriated by the socialists.
izlamo delenda est …