I thought this was a Catholic cardinal when I first read it and I was like o_O
I snorted. :)
Rare 'half-male, half-female' cardinal photographed in Pennsylvania
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#12She’s handsome
Did you just assume her gender????
Bigot. /s
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#13I thought this was a Catholic cardinal when I first read it and I was like o_O
Just woke up, saw this title, rubbed my eyes to make sure I wasn't seeing things—and then realized what type of cardinal this was!
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#14Hard not to wonder if the endocrine disrupting chemicals we haven't banned but are changing sexes of many species, likely including ourselves, contributed.
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#15First thought: The red mascot of Angry Birds.
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#16he/her
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#17The Catholic church really has made incredible progress.
I vouched since there is another comment making a catholic joke. Doesn’t make sense to punish only one.
It’s a harmless pun, a cardinal, get it? :) Sometimes I wish the “Guidelines lawyers“ weren’t so quick to flag silly jokes.
If we changed ‘Catholic’ for ‘Episcopalian’ would it still draw the same reaction?
Re: Rare 'half-male, half-female' cardinal photographed in Pennsylvania
#18"At first Mr Hill wondered if the bird was leucistic - a term that means the specimen would have a loss of pigmentation in its feathers, but would not be half-female, half-male.
But after seeing mobile phone pictures, he suspected it had what is called bilateral gynandromorphism, which is when a bird would have both a functioning ovary and a functioning single testis."
So, uh, it would have been interesting if they had mentioned WHY the ornithologist thought it was gynandromorphic rather than leucistic? I'm not an ornithologist but it seems like a pigment mutation is a simpler explanation...
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#19he/her
I always wondered about this strange form if it suggests that one is permitted to have nonstandard combinations of subject and object pronouns.
It seems odd to me to list them separately. — certainly, if I see “he” I would assume that the object pronoun is to be “him”, and the genitive and possessive pronouns “his”.
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#20"At first Mr Hill wondered if the bird was leucistic - a term that means the specimen would have a loss of pigmentation in its feathers, but would not be half-female, half-male. But after seeing mobile phone pictures, he suspected it had what is called bilateral gynandromorphism, which is when a bird would have both a functioning ovary and a functioning single testis." So, uh, it would have been interesting if they h…
Leucistic cardinals don't just look like female cardinals. https://lostpineslife.com/leucistic-northern-cardinal-winter...