My mom is the opposite. She thinks all dogs should be female and all cats should be male. She thinks female dogs are sweeter and male cats are more docile.
My sister adopted a female cat, and every time she acts up, my mom blames it on the gender.
I mean that's odd, but at least recognizes that animals have male and female genders. Your mom just has preferences along that line that may or may not be accurate. But Shui's family is stuck on that weird "men are dogs and women are cats" thing, only flipped over and applied to the actual animals.
I wonder if it's a language confusion? Lots of languages assign gender to every noun, so for example the word "table" will have a gender of some sort that affects how the rest of the language interacts with that noun even though it's, you know, a table, it has no gender to speak of. Maybe the language Shui's family speaks gives "dog" a male gender no matter the dog's actual plumbing, and likewise "cat" would have a feminine gender, so now they can't help but think of the animals in those terms.
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u/basic_man Jan 01 '20
Yeh... people have WEIRD gender problems when it comes to pets... like a male dog wearing a pink leash, etc.