How many dogs are they around that to get to a statistically significant pool of dogs with a strong gender preference (which most dogs do not have)?
aka “my dog doesn’t like men” *proceeds to like me*
Someone says to Katy Montgomerie that their dog doesn’t like men, and the only thing that happens is the dog likes them? No explosion over the misgendering?
This probably happened once (and is probably just an exception; see iknklast’s story) and got turned into this thing that always happens…
Ahem, apologies. Talk about a misunderstanding of animal behaviour!
“Prefers men vs women” is shorthand for what we perceive as an animal’s reaction to any of a suite of characteristics, it’s not a claim that animals determine one’s sex.., or age, or race, or anything either than the thing they’re ACTUALLY responding to, which isn’t typically systematically tested. I periodically foster rescue dogs, and while I can try to be more precise all but the most well-funded rescues just I don’t have the resources to objectively and thoroughly test all possibilities. Easier to say a dog “prefers women” than to try to sort out if their reaction to most men means they’re disturbed by a deep voice, facial hair, a hulking posture, an erect stance, some odorant more common in males, or some combination of those and/or other characteristics.
I’m not at all surprised that anyone who thinks they can change sex also doesn’t understand any sort of basic science. Par for the course at this point *shrug*
Ah but it’s not true that “some animals prefer or hate men or women” is it? Some animals are universally timid about humans, and some are specifically more nervous about large, deep-voiced, loud, assertive humans who violate the animal’s boundaries after failing to pick up on behaviour and body language signalling that the animal wants to be left alone. That’s usually men. I have never met a cat or dog that “doesn’t like women”.
I had a dog once that liked women and hated men. She hated me, and loved my (now ex) husband. So I guess that mean’s I’m a man?
She wouldn’t let me in the door when I came home. We had to give her back to the people who gave her to us.
Colin can’t be all bad if dogs like him. I always trusted my dogs’ instincts about who they liked or feared.
Wow, the scientific proofs of gender identity just keep piling up!
How many dogs are they around that to get to a statistically significant pool of dogs with a strong gender preference (which most dogs do not have)?
Someone says to Katy Montgomerie that their dog doesn’t like men, and the only thing that happens is the dog likes them? No explosion over the misgendering?
This probably happened once (and is probably just an exception; see iknklast’s story) and got turned into this thing that always happens…
WHAAARGARBLE
Ahem, apologies. Talk about a misunderstanding of animal behaviour!
“Prefers men vs women” is shorthand for what we perceive as an animal’s reaction to any of a suite of characteristics, it’s not a claim that animals determine one’s sex.., or age, or race, or anything either than the thing they’re ACTUALLY responding to, which isn’t typically systematically tested. I periodically foster rescue dogs, and while I can try to be more precise all but the most well-funded rescues just I don’t have the resources to objectively and thoroughly test all possibilities. Easier to say a dog “prefers women” than to try to sort out if their reaction to most men means they’re disturbed by a deep voice, facial hair, a hulking posture, an erect stance, some odorant more common in males, or some combination of those and/or other characteristics.
I’m not at all surprised that anyone who thinks they can change sex also doesn’t understand any sort of basic science. Par for the course at this point *shrug*
Ah but it’s not true that “some animals prefer or hate men or women” is it? Some animals are universally timid about humans, and some are specifically more nervous about large, deep-voiced, loud, assertive humans who violate the animal’s boundaries after failing to pick up on behaviour and body language signalling that the animal wants to be left alone. That’s usually men. I have never met a cat or dog that “doesn’t like women”.