'Sweet Potato is not a boy cat's name': Karen gets offended over cat's gender at the vet's office; owner continues to laugh at her

Cats don't care about anything (except mealtimes, snacks, ear scratches, and that random bottle cap you accidentally dropped and is all of a sudden their furvorite toy), but most of all, they don't care about gender. They don't understand the impawtance we put on "boy names" versus "girl names". We know a pair of pawrents who named their girl cat "Asteroid Destroyer", so tell us, do you think Asteroid Destroyer is a boy or a girl? The answer is: who cares! The only thing that matters is that Asteroid Destroyer is very cute and likes to cuddle. We also have a friend with a girl cat named 'Eddie'. She tried calling her a more "girly name", but she wouldn't respond. We could go on, but we think you get the point.

Anyway, all of this information just makes the Karen's dilemma below even funnier. While at the vet, a pawrent and their orange cat 'Sweet Potato' (great name for an ginger boy, if you ask us), appawrently offended a Karen who assumed their cat Sweet Potato was a girl. She claimed that Sweet Potato is certainly not a boy's name. Rightfully so, the pawrent laughed in her face and explained that cats don't understand the concept of gender, and that Sweet Potato actually really likes her name.

Did you name any of your cats with a gender non-conforming name? If so, do you think this Karen would have said the same thing to you? We hope so. Scroll down to read more about this hissterical vet's office interaction!

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Lady got upset about my gender non conforming cat

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We're pretty convinced that Sweet Potato is neither male nor female, but simply orange. They might not have enough brain cells to even understand if they are a boy or a girl. It seems to us that Sweet Potato only cares about Starbucks cup cozies and food.
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This isn't even about being woke, it's about not attaching our hooman ideas of gender to animals who have no concept of the construct of gender in the first place. One of our female orange cats (she's rare, we know) wears a blue collar. A lot of people assume she's a boy, and honestly, who cares? They treat her the same whether they think she's a boy or a girl, and she pawsitively can't even tell the difference.
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