Trump Thinks 'Hero Dog' Is Male

[applegrove]

Trump Thinks ‘Hero Dog’ Is Male

November 25, 2019 at 2:27 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

https://politicalwire.com/2019/11/25/trump-thinks-dog-in-raid-was-male/

"SNIP.....

From White House pool reporter Hunter Walker of Yahoo News:

“A White House official confirmed to your pooler on background that Conan the dog is female. The president used male pronouns to identify the dog during the earlier event. Your pooler retracts the earlier comment that Conan was a very good boy. Conan is apparently a very good girl. Good girl Conan.”

.....SNIP"

[Maeve]

1. Well of course he does

Females can't be heroes!

[magicarpet]

2. Oh,... tell the dog to guard her privates anywhere near that pig.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. B*tiches can't be heroes silly people, must be a male. (rolls eyes)

[samnsara]

4. well...so apparently 'Diana' was already taken? Conan for a girl? phhhsssttt

[exboyfil]

5. She should have been called Sonja

or Belit or Valeria.

[Raine]

6. Conan sounds like a male's name

every time I hear the name I think it refers to a male.

[Polybius]

9. Because there are only two people named that name

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. I hope that Conan bites him.

[Polybius]

8. A lot of people do that with pets unfortunately

You don't know how many times people have seen my cats over the years and said "he's so cute." People always assume it's a he.

[applegrove]

10. I do it with my cats to be honest.

[Hela]

11. Did he move on her like a bitch? n/m

[Igel]

12. And so did the pooler.

I'd also say that the general default is if you don't know the sex of a dog, you call it "him." If there's a correction, then you make the correction. In languages with grammatical expression of sex and/or agreement classes, there must be default settings. Hungarian, no problem--but you use sexed terms to refer to people when you need or want to. When sexed lexical items and pronouns clash, as they sometimes do, speakers and language have different ways of resolving the problem. Spanish has some, Russian has others, languages with 3 or 5 or 10 "genders" have their own. One language I looked at arguably has something like two dozen agreement classes, something in the Caucasus, if I remember correctly, or maybe sub-Saharan Africa.