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this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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I don't know a single person who uses "it" for animals. My parents just project their own pronouns onto the animal when they don't know what to call them, and my friends and I spend about 5 minutes trying to figure out the gender expression of This Random Animal We Saw when we are talking about them.
I think plants would be a better candidate, but my friends usually use male pronouns for trees (due to current events) and female pronouns for flowers.
Is this a regional thing? People don't really use she or he for animals here. I live in Europe for reference
Probably doesn't help that 'she' and 'dog' sound very similar in my language
Might be a midwest america thing. I have been thinking about this since posting it, and I think i see this the most prominently with hunters talking about "how pretty she is" when drscribing the deer they just killed.
nhh don't like that