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This is a community aimed at people who want to talk about their pets, not just see pictures. Cats and dogs are likely to be the main focus, but any household pet can be included, so feel free to post about your gerbil, tortoise or hedgehog if you have one!

The main rules are that posts must be related to pets and that the focus is on discussion. Posts can include photos, as long as that is not the sole purpose of the post.

There will be a pinned post for people who want to introduce themselves and their pets where general photos can be put in the comments.

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Just a thought (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by allo@sh.itjust.works to c/petdiscussion@sh.itjust.works

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I have two fluffy puppies; a girl and a boy.

It's night so I couldn't see which fluffy puppy i was cuddling with.

I could have reached down and felt whether it was the boy or the girl. But I didn't. Because I believe I should give the same feedback, based on their actions, whether it's the girl or the boy.

What if feedback when raising children was not different based on the child's sex? Would people grow up to be more purely who they really are? This is how I raise my puppies and how I would raise a child(ren). No action is more acceptable for girls or more acceptable for boys. I don't need to know the sex of who I'm interacting with to tailor my feedback for them. Do you?

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 months ago

I dont tailor anything to my pets based on gender but for kids I think its almost impossible to avoid. They're so different and they regularly express those differences. If I tried to treat a little girl and little boy with equal feedback they'd get bored. I'm a man and I can feel the gender differences, when im hanging out with the kids in my family I enjoy the games we play with the boys and not gonna lie I do not enjoy the games we play with the girls i find them boring. But even then there is plenty of overlap where both are treated the same and enjoy it.

As for pets the only role gender plays for me is the expectation of behavior. I dont think about it 99% of the time.