On page 3 of the book I’m reading, a pregnant woman buys for her baby “a crib sheet dotted with gender-neutral penguins.”
I tried to imagine a crib sheet with non-gender-neutral penguins, but my imagination failed me.
Now I’m left wondering about penguin genitals. Literature definitely makes one think. If not always in the way one hopes.
I should have stuck with Trollope.
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Hmmm, okay, if one wants to study fascinating penguin mating/rearing behavior consider the amazing Emperor Penguin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_penguin
To be blunt, why does “the love that dare not speak its name” never seem to shut up ;-D
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Penguins, like most birds, have no external genitalia.
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In this case, she may mean that penguins are suitable decor for either baby boys or girls rather than the penguins themselves being gender neutral. You never know these days though.
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That might be but then who or what would be a non-gender-neutral alternative? Nobody would put guns on a crib sheet. Or those breast cancer triangles.
Flowers, maybe? Are those considered female?
I’m seriously pondering this at the moment.
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Girls – princesses, anything pink, flowers, hearts, …
Boys – cars, rockets, trains, robots, anything blue, …
From animals, cats are more for girls, dogs for boys, although it is harder to make a distinction there, in my opinion.
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\ Flowers, maybe? Are those considered female?
Flowers, pink colors, etc.
Btw, in Israel I saw an interesting combination – a pinkish airplane blanket! Bought it hoping it counts as gender-neutral.
Other gender-neutral things are in darker colors imo.
Here is this neutral sheet for example (I saw many when googled “penguin crib sheet”):
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81X5JMc2xvL._AC_UF350,350_QL80_.jpg
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You … bought it?
You got anything to tell me, child?
Please understand that even the mere possibility brings tears of joy to my eyes. And I just did my makeup.
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\ You got anything to tell me, child?
Thank you, but no, not yet.
It’s hopefully for future.
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Don’t play with a person’s feelings like this.
Here’s hoping for a very near future.
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I was in Antarctica working with some scientists that were studying penguins. I asked them how they could tell the males from the females. They said it was easy because it’s breeding season and the female penguins are the ones with muddy foot prints on their back.
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OK, this is really funny.
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Particularly because both sexes of Emperor penguins axrually bow deeply before each other immediately prior to mating ;-D
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actually damnation, where did I put my glasses ;-D
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