Christina Websell wrote:


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Christina Websell wrote:


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Christina Websell wrote:

"Mike Mayers" wrote in message

another name for Spazzie. I am thinking of Ollie for Oliver. In
the
movie Oliver, Oliver says "please sir, I want some more". That's
Spazzie
when she is hungry - which is all the time.

That's a boy's name. I suppose you could try Olivia

May I ask, why does it matter? It's not like the cat is going to be
ridiculed by her peers for having a boy's name. She's not going to have
gender confusion.

It matters to me and that's all you need to know.
Would you call your male child Amanda or Penelope or ? of course not.
It's a matter of dignity.

If I even wanted to give a male child a girl's name, I sincerely doubt
that
I would, because he would face hell in school, if not before. The world is
full of narrow-minded idiots who apparently have a mandate to beat the
living
hell out of anyone who violates their notion of "gender-appropriate"
behavior,
including their name.

But - and this is important - I would not pick a boy's name because I
believe
it's undignified to do otherwise. why is it undignified? Is there any
reason,
other than an emotional attachment to gender norms, for thinking this? Is
there a *logical* reason to think there is something undignified about it?

But we're talking about *cats*. I guarantee you, a cat does not care about
this.

I know this but I am not going to call a male cat Wendy or a female David.

Of course. That's not what I'm getting at anyway - I'm not saying you or
anyone should give names to pets that don't seem right. It's just that if
someone *were* to name a male cat Wendy, etc, there are people out there who
would get upset about it, as though it were a form of animal abuse. I just
find that odd.

--
Joyce

Cats' hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily
go in one ear and out the other. -- Stephen Baker