50 Fascinating Posts And Stories For The Curious Among Us

Emilu - they are almost definitely female. With the way cat coat color genetics work, tortoiseshell cats (the one in the foreground) and calicoes are almost always female. Only 1 in 3,000 is male, and those males are generally sterile as they are technically XXY genome. It mimics the human condition known as Klinefelter syndrome in that way. So when you see a tortie or a calico, it is safe to assume it's female, as male ones are very, VERY rare (about 0.03% chance!) Orange tabbies are also gender-skewed, though not as much - about 20% of orange tabbies are female; the rest are male. The orange/red coat color (pheomelanin) is séx-linked in cats on the X chromosome, meaning a female cat has to inherit the orange color gene from both parents!

When I was growing up the neighbors next door had a male polydactyly tortie. He got another cat pregnant and we got a female tortoiseshell who looked just like him except she had double fangs top and bottom.

Thanks for this! Learned something new today ❤️😘

Political science major and social studies teacher here, @PenguinEmp: No, they weren't. Most emphatically no. Fascism is defined as the "far right, antidemocratic, ultranationalist conservative government". The Soviet Union was totalitarian left, or authoritarian communism. Similar in their methods, but certainly not in their values. So before asking other to "look up the word", look it up yourself.

haha, lol, no, emotionally

Hmm I think it's ok the reclaim a word. But it can ALSO be used in an offensive manner. Like the "N" word. Ok in a rap song, not OK at my wine and cheese parties. Considering that use could blow up into a huge firestorm of critique on social media. I think they take the safer option.

@xenomurph: It's ok in a rap song AND at your party as long as it's black people saying it. it's NOT ok in a rap song OR at your party if it's not black people saying it. source: me - a black people.

That’s what I assumed, I live in Australia though so it was an outside assumption. If I sing along (huge jay z fan) I change it to chica 😂

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It's only okay to say if it is you're black. If you are not black, it's not okay.

They mainly censor it because of sponsor money..

Or jeepsy

Gentiles?

Yes this is true context and geography play a massive role in this. I’m free from prejudice in this country by comparison of maybe the US and especially Estonia/romania where saying I was Romani or gýpsy would get me mùrdered or severely beaten.