r/confidentlyincorrect • u/strategic-lifer1mil • 1d ago
I’m so done with today. Happy Friday
If you don’t know… chicken is the species. Hen is adult female. Rooster is adult male….
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u/GoodShark 1d ago
Chickens are both male and female. Hens are female chickens, Roosters are male chickens.
People are dumb.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Arm_847 1d ago
I knew a Rooster that went to school and they changed him into a chicken at recess and didn't even warn his parents.
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u/downtownpartytime 1d ago
This happens 20 billion times per day in California!
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u/blake_n_pancakes 1d ago
They can only have 10 rounds in their guns over there, they don't have the firepower to stop it. A tragedy.
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u/Purple_Bowling_Shoes 1d ago
Wait til you hear what I do with their abortions.
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u/BigToober69 1d ago edited 1d ago
Used to argue with an ex that was Catholic that Catholics are not Christian.
Edit: i was saying Catholics are Christian. They were saying they are not they are just Catholic.
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u/user_name_taken- 1d ago
Your Catholic ex believed Catholics weren't Christian?? That's worse than the chickens honestly.
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u/ConspiratorM 1d ago
Some Christians say Catholics aren't proper Christians because they pray to Mary and saints for intervention, thus effectively making them polytheists.
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u/user_name_taken- 1d ago
That's different though. An Evangelical saying Catholics aren't Christian I can see, but I can't see a Catholic, the original Christians, saying they're not Christian.
Also, idk if polytheist works if you don't worship them as God's. They still only believe in one God, well I guess, actually, the three different versions of that one God, but that's all Christians I believe. The others are just considered like holy figures who have pull with God. It's weird.
Catholics are big on the hierarchy because some people are considered to be closer to and more important to God. It's like asking someone else to pray for you, which all Christians do. Catholics just believe certain people's prayers carry more weight because they're higher up in the hierarchy. And the more people you have praying for you the more likely God is to actually hear/answer your prayer because apparently it's like politics. You know, if you get a lot of people to like sign the petition and you get like some big celebrities pushing it and maybe like a lobbying group, God's more likely to pass the bill for you, lol.
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u/ConspiratorM 1d ago
Ah, I just scanned the sentence and didn't pick up on it was a Catholic who thought they weren't Christian, as someone who was raised Catholic I'm pretty sure the term Christian was applied to us in church and school. That is odd.
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u/user_name_taken- 1d ago
Yea, it's worded weird. But it would be really strange. I was also raised Catholic and the word Christian was 100% used repeatedly.
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u/Nu-Hir 1d ago
That's different though. An Evangelical saying Catholics aren't Christian I can see, but I can't see a Catholic, the original Christians, saying they're not Christian.
Catholics being the OG Christians really depends on which side of the schism you're on.
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u/whiskey_epsilon 1d ago
Both sides say the Catholics are the OG Christians, just that they consider themselves the Catholics: Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox Catholic Church (it's their official name).
The easterners being Orthodox not Catholic is Roman propaganda.
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u/KamuikiriTatara 1d ago
I mean... anyone who actually reads the Bible will know about God's siblings who are fellow patron warriors for different city states who fight amongst each other. The Israeli patron Adonais, YHWH, Jehova, whatever name you wanna call them, isn't even the most powerful of their siblings and has a parental figure who is more powerful and divided human domains and gave them to their children. The Bible explicitly recognizes other gods. There are stories about how you can only worship your city state's God on their own land, so travelers brought wagons of dirt from home to pray on so they would t accidentally pray to the wrong god.
Abrahamic practitioners usually know very little about their own traditions.
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u/OkieDeric 16h ago
Went to a friends Catholic church once. The priest literally talked shit about the Church of Christ (where my family went) down the street for 15 to 20 minutes.
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u/GreenZebra23 1d ago
Weird, I've only heard the idea of the Catholics aren't Christians from Evangelical Protestants. Very strange that a Catholic was saying that. I haven't been Catholic in a very long time but I'm pretty sure that would actually be considered sacrilegious
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u/plantyjen 1d ago
Heh — my sister married a Cuban man (Catholic) and my mother (evangelical) was outraged. Until she met him, decided he was nice, and it was okay since he was a “Christian Catholic.” As opposed to….? Pagan Catholic?
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u/InitHello 1d ago
Could have been a Catholic Atheist, like in the joke told but most likely not invented by Dara Ó Briain.
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u/_Panic_At_The_Costco 1d ago
I gotta hear this joke
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u/InitHello 1d ago
I couldn't find Dara telling the joke, possibly due to my agèd memory getting me all mixed up, but I did find a video where the late Christopher Hitchens did.
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u/mamabearette 1d ago
I went to school with someone who INSISTED Catholics weren’t Christian because they worship Mary.
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u/CurtisLinithicum 1d ago
For them "Christian" means "Follower of Christ's Teachings Only" - since Mary, the Saints, the various elements adopted from Roman state religion, etc are extra-Biblical, it therefore follows that Catholics no longer fall under that specific definition (cue accusations of pagantry, etc).
You may call that dumb - I do - but from within their framework, it's comparable to e.g. Christians and Muslims not being Jews or Buddhists not being Hindu.
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u/plantyjen 1d ago
Yes, that’s exactly it. Protestants call them polytheistic, pagan, idolators. And yes, it’s dumb.
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u/Available-Half-40 14h ago
That's funny cuz... we don't. Not like God anyway. When you pray to God you're praying to the big man Himself and asking for His help. If you pray to Mary you're basically being like "hey, could you bring this up with your son when you see him again?"
... because it would be stupid to think that the mother of God has zero sway over His actions. That's His mom.
The worship of God is... well, worshipping God. The worship of Mary is basically just "respect for giving birth to the lord and savior." Not the same level at all.
At least, I think. Haven't been to church in a good long while.
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u/cthulhu_on_my_lawn 1d ago
Some people raised by really, uuuh, casual sort of Catholics view it as more of an ethnic group? Like being Jewish. I knew one person in college who was like "I thought I just inherited being Catholic".
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u/CurtisLinithicum 1d ago
"Cultural Catholic" is very much a thing, albeit lower key than "Cultural Jew", as a rule.
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u/TuvixHadItComing 1d ago
Interestingly I've been to a non-denominational (but with very Pentecostal roots) church that affirm weekly that they are catholic (lower case) when doing the Nicene creed. In that sense catholic just means universal but it's funny to imagine a capital C Catholic asserting they aren't Christian, they're Catholic, and then have a charismatic "keep your tongues discreet, we have visitors" Christian be like "um...actually..."
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u/Unfortunate-Incident 1d ago
I was raised Catholic and taught Catholics are Christians, fwiw
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u/Elloitsmeurbrother 1d ago
Because they are
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u/Unfortunate-Incident 1d ago
No shit. OG Christians tbh. I think I went to the most progressive Catholic church on earth because what they taught me doesn't align with what I've seen from other Catholics on the internet.
I'm no longer Catholic but those values stayed with me, which is why I vote Dem.
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u/chaos_almighty 1d ago
Also raised catholic, 7 years of catechism- definitely referred to as Christians.
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u/kalel3000 1d ago
They are Christian since they believe in Christ's divinity.
They just aren't what some people refer to a "Christian" when they mean like a protestant/baptist/methodist/other Christian denomination.
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u/tyrified 1d ago
Because those are all heretical apostate cults of the Catholic church. It's how they express their insecurity about it.
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u/CurtisLinithicum 1d ago
True, but the "Adherent to the Nicene Creed" definition of "Christian" which insiders seem to prefer clouds this (vs e.g. Unitarians).
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u/kalel3000 1d ago
Not sure which part. But the nicene creed clearly defines Jesus as a god that Catholics follow/believe in.
They may consider it polythiest because of how the trinity is defined. Which is not a Catholic belief. But even if it was, the term "Christian" means a follower of christ, presumably as a god, so Catholics would still be Christian....just not how some other religions define "Christian".
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u/CurtisLinithicum 1d ago
Unitarians (by definition) reject the Trinity; likewise Arianism holds Jesus was a temporary vessel, so they're out. Mormons are, in a sense, tritheist not trinitarian. Likewise any church that only claims a spiritual resurrection.
Contrast, e.g. the "follower of Jesus's teachings" definition common amongst outsiders, which'd include all the above as well as Jeffersonian Christians who reject Jesus's divinity.
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u/ScreamingDizzBuster 1d ago
When I lived in Ireland I had someone say "he's not Christian, he's Protestant". In the other hand I once hosted some evangelicals in Rome and they were "surprised at how much Christian symbolism there is in the Vatican."
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u/Darksnark_The_Unwise 1d ago
That's a real bummer, any proper catholic should be well versed in shit-talking protestants. Your ex is weak for handing over the name of Christ to the other denominations, and I say that as an atheist.
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u/Sufficient_Sell_6103 23h ago
Had this same conversation regarding peafowl. Someone was insisting that they are all called peacocks (both male and female). Tried explaining that the name for the animal type is peafowl and males are peacocks and females are peahens. They refused to accept it
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u/mrbear48 1d ago
All Catholics are Christian, not all Christian’s are Catholic, idk who told her that but she needs to talk to her priest lol
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u/BlizzardStorm8 1d ago
I had the exact same argument with an ex as well that's crazy. I brought a Catholic friend of mine into the argument and he just gave her a look like "wtf are you talking about" and agreed that Catholicism is a type of Christianity. At the time I thought it might be a cultural thing. Her family was originally from El Salvador and my other Catholic friend was as white as it gets.
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u/Aggravating_Plantain 1d ago
My wife makes a distinction like this. I've never heard her say "Catholics aren't Christian," but I have heard her use the term "Christians" many times to refer to a group that doesn't include Catholics.
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u/Harvey_Rabbit 1d ago
You were arguing Catholics aren't Christians? By what logic?
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u/CurtisLinithicum 1d ago
Probably either misinterpreting Catholic writings that explicitly list "Catholics and [other] Christians" - e.g. the Second Laeteran Council
"Artem autem illam mortiferam et Deo odibilem ballistariorum et sagittariorum adversus christianos et catholicos exerceri de cetero prohibemus sub anathemate."
Or (more likely) reading anti-Catholic protestant writings (e.g. Jack Chick) and thinking the mindset is universal.
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u/ADeckOfZero 1d ago
In their defense, I'm pretty sure that is or was the official stance of the Catholic Church. They are the One True Way and all Christian denominations are heretical cults.
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u/BigToober69 1d ago
Sure but they would still be Christian even if they were the only ones.
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u/reichrunner 1d ago
The official stance has always been that Catholics are Christians. And not all denominations are heretical cults, mostly just the protestant ones. The Orthodox Churches aren't viewed as heretical
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u/sarcastic_patriot 1d ago
Let me understand: you got the hen, the chicken, and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So, who's having sex with the hen?
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u/PantsDontHaveAnswers 1d ago
That's perverse!
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u/big_sugi 1d ago
Remember: using a feather to spice up your sex life is kinky. Using the whole chicken is perverted.
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u/mamabearette 1d ago edited 1d ago
Terminology a little harder with cattle - cows are female but everyone calls them all cows. I think accepted usage has moved toward the latter.
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u/Pricklypearl 1d ago
To be even more specific, a cow is a female bovine that has had a calf. Before that the female is a heifer.
Honest question, because I do not know: Do you think we call them cows colloquially because of milk cows?
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u/mamabearette 1d ago
I have no idea! But if someone sees a field full of cattle they always say “cows,” I guess it may feel clunky to say “look at that field full of cows, steer, bulls, heifers, and calves” but you can say “cattle.” A singular bovine is routinely called a cow without knowing its age/gender/etc.
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u/Pretend-Conflict4461 1d ago
Where does the term "moo moos" fall in all of this. Is it fair to call them all "moo moos" instead of "cows"?
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u/slobcat1337 1d ago
I’ll ask my four year old daughter
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u/mamabearette 1d ago
I have a friend with a black and white cat named MooMoo so I will also ask her.
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u/Aggravating_Plantain 1d ago
What's the proper singular of cattle? "An animal of the bovine persuasion? “
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u/AndyLorentz 1d ago
Bovine would be the proper sexless singular. Cattle itself is plural only. Interestingly, the word is a variation on “chattel”, and is closely related to “capital”. It used to be used for all livestock, not just bovines. The Old English word “Cu” came from the Proto-Indo-European word for bovine.
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u/NoBookkeeper3523 1d ago
They are cattle but everyone except for ranchers calls them all cow, and half the time ranchers I grew up around called them cows unless they were giving a count of how many cattle they had. A toilet is called a water closet on plumbing blue prints but most plumbers call it a toilet (really that call it a shitter)
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u/Pricklypearl 1d ago
I mean we raised cattle and fed the cows, watered the cows, checked the cows, branded cows. I get the colloquial meaning. I was just wondering why we call them all cows.
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u/MauveDragon 14h ago
That would be my take. I grew up on a dairy farm. Always referred to bovines grown for beef as cattle. Calves are calves until they are weaned, then they are either heifers or bulls. And as you stated, once they have had a calf, they become cows (milkers until they go dry).
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u/CurtisLinithicum 1d ago
Slightly ironic, given bull and cow were adopted into Pidgin for "male" and "female". E.g. Me have one piecee cow-chilo, one piecee bull-chilo = "I have one daughter and one son".
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u/ArgusSkyhawk 1d ago
English needs to popularize the word "bovine" so we have a gender neutral common term for the species.
It won't happen, I know. But it should.
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u/ErisGrey 1d ago
I feel this is making a joke, or confusing the statement about Peacocks. All Peacocks are male, all Peahens are female. The group is collectively called Peafowl.
However everyone always refers to them all as Pea "cocks".
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u/A--Creative-Username 1d ago
The issue (I think) is that they're thinking of cows
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u/Odd-Consideration153 1d ago
Maybe, but also very possibly not. I've seen plenty of people who think chicken=female and rooster=male. I've also seen plenty of people who don't know cow=female that has had birth, heifer=female who hasn't given birth, bull=intact male, steer=castrated male, cattle=overall term for all.
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u/MattieShoes 1d ago
So.... you've kind of lost that battle on the second one. Since there's no generally agreed on gender-neutral term for cattle, cow has become that term.
Webster's definition has this
c: a domestic bovine animal regardless of sex or age
Even outside of that, having given birth is not a requirement, though that may be where context starts mattering a lot. Like if you're talking about "cows and heifers", then it matters because that's the difference. If you're talking about "that herd of cows", I'm not going to assume every single one of them has spawned.
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u/thefakerealdrpepper 1d ago
Frank Costanza: "Let me understand, you got the hen, the chicken and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So, who's having sex with the hen?"
George Costanza: "Why don't we talk about something else?"
Mrs. Ross: "They’re all chickens. The rooster has sex with all of them."
Frank Costanza: "That’s perverse."
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u/Hippopotamidaes 1d ago
The species is Gallus gallus domesticus, aka “chicken.”
Female chickens are hens, male chickens are roosters, baby chickens are chicks.
All roosters & hens are chickens.
Chicken is delicious.
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u/Pricklypearl 1d ago
Between being a chick and a rooster or hen, they are a cockerel or a pullet.
Anyways, I should go tell my roosters they aren't chickens anymore I guess.
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u/Albert14Pounds 1d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_as_food
Not surprised that there's a separate wiki for that
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u/douxsoumis 1d ago
It feels like they are on the verge of admitting they're a chicken fucker just so long as you don't think they're a gay chicken fucker.
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u/DeepFinish2895 1d ago
But of a stretch but I think you may be right.
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u/CatGooseChook 1d ago
I did a stint of office work at an insurance company a few decades ago. One task I had to do on occasion was check peoples criminal record. A lot more chicken fuckers out there than one would expect.
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u/nothanks86 1d ago
I do not know how to process this.
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u/CatGooseChook 1d ago
I still haven't, hence why I share the burden when the opportunity presents itself ☺️
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u/THRlLL-HO 1d ago
How would a gay chicken fucker know which chickens are gay?
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u/kungfukenny3 1d ago
birds have cloaca anyway so it would hardly matter
they poop, lay eggs, and have intercourse using the same entrance
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u/Morall_tach 1d ago
The only thing more infuriating than someone being confidently incorrect is when the person correcting them does such a terrible job of explaining.
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u/TrumpDumper 1d ago
Let me understand, you got the hen, the chicken and the rooster. The
rooster goes with the chicken. So, who's having sex with the hen?
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u/77th_Bat 1d ago
they're prob mixing up cows and chickens. Cows are all female, but chickens are not.
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u/PoolSharkPete 1d ago
You don't even graduate to being a cow until you've given birth to at least one calf.
Cowdom is a very exclusive club
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u/Dogcat729 1d ago
It’s crazy that “cows” have so many terms to be specific to them:
cattle, calf (both bull & heifer), bull, steer, heifer, cow.It’s kinda crazy how many terms they have other than “male cow” or “girl cow”, unlike most other animals
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u/Takashishiful 1d ago
I love gendered words for animals, they're so funny. My favorite is cats, the girls are queens and the boys are toms.
What a disparity in rank
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u/SigmaEagle 8h ago
Wtf, I had no idea they were called queens.
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u/Takashishiful 6h ago
Just double checked, if they get spayed they get overthrown I guess, because they are no longer a queen and become a molly
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u/danieldan0803 1d ago
A cockerel is a male under a year old and pullet is a female under a year. Then obviously you have a rooster as adult male and hen as adult female
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u/EGeezy520 1d ago
My brother's hen became a rooster in color, actions, and sounds. Still genetically female, but presented as a male. It's a thing. I had no idea.
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u/gd5k 1d ago
Did they get confused with cows? People tend to call all cattle “cows” when technically that does refer to the females.
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u/ShadowtheHedgehog_ 1d ago
More specifically, a female who has birthed at least one calf, otherwise she's a heifer.
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u/Decent_Ticket_60 1d ago
Pullets and cockerels will blow their mind.
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u/Stilcho1 1d ago
mine is anyway. 70 years old and I didn't know what a pullet or Cockerel is. the only time I've even heard the word Cockerel was in a Black Sabbath song.
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u/DionFW 1d ago
There was a hen in the parking lot of my work one day and my coworker named it Fernando. 10 years later and it still upsets me.
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u/segomil 1d ago
I had to explain to one of my egg customers the necessity of a rooster to fertilize the hens eggs.
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u/WilmaDykfyt 1d ago
There are many people who think hens won't lay without a rooster. I found this out when I got chickens. When I explained it's ovulation, just like women do, many of them couldn't understand it. I ask them if they think nuns menstruate and they freak out. Too much for their little brains.
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u/Pricklypearl 1d ago
My students think they can incubate eggs from the grocery store.
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u/sparkly_dragon 1d ago
technically chickens can asexually reproduce in very very rare circumstances. it’s called parthenogenesis and while the vast majority die in the egg or shortly after there is one documented case of a parthenogenesis baby surviving. due to the way chromosomes are expressed in birds (ZZ male, ZW female) a parthenogenesis baby is almost always male.
other species of reptiles are much more successful at it though, with some species relying solely on parthenogenesis for reproduction like mourning geckos. the offspring is all female except on very rare occasions.
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u/kwisatz-hadderach 1d ago
Someone doesn't watch Seinfeld.
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u/Non-Normal_Vectors 1d ago
Very first place my mind went when I read this, surprised this comment gained little traction. Jerry Stiller was possibly the best part of that show
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u/kwisatz-hadderach 1d ago
I tried to crosspost to accidentlseinfeld but they wouldn't allow it. :°(
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u/drunkenkurd 1d ago
I always thought chicken was the generic name for the animal. So like a male chicken is a rooster and a female chicken is a hen, but they’re both chickens is that not the case?
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u/strategic-lifer1mil 1d ago
This is correct.
Chicken= species
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u/ShiningGemstone1 1d ago edited 1d ago
i think bro was thinking of "chicks" when typing that
edit: ok why did i get downvoted for this joke
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u/strategic-lifer1mil 1d ago
I’m forgot to add his other comment but it says “No when the males are babies they’re called cockerels not chickens the females are chicks.”
All baby chickens are considered chicks regardless of gender. At males teen stages, they get called a cockerel, and when they’re fully grown, they’re called roosters
Edit: they’re always all still chickens though. That part never changes
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u/passwordistako 20h ago
Isn’t it Hen and Rooster for only female/only male - and then all of them are chickens?
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u/BuddyJim30 1d ago
You got the rooster, the hen and the chicken. The rooster has sex with the hen. So who's having sex with the chicken? Somethings missing!
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u/SlowInsurance1616 1d ago
Let me understand: you got the hen, the chicken, and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So, who's having sex with the hen?
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u/truckthunderwood 1d ago
I'll admit I forgot the word "hen" and was a bit confused by this one for a bit
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u/TorandoSlayer 1d ago
And pullet is young female, cockerel is young male. All still chickens though
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u/PeopleofYouTube 1d ago
Let me understand: you got the hen, the chicken, and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So, who’s having sex with the hen?
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u/Working_Cucumber_437 1d ago
All roosters are chickens but not all chickens are roosters.
Like the rectangle/square debacle.
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u/Ok-Wait-8465 22h ago
lol this is an entire plot line in the middle school book Flipped and I never understood where the character’s confusion came from
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u/strategic-lifer1mil 21h ago
I’m glad you thought of the correlation because nobody else thought of flipped and it made me sad
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u/DamNamesTaken11 20h ago
To be pedantic, a rooster (or cock…) is a male fertile chicken, a capon is a castrated male chicken, and a cockerel is a young male chicken. /from growing up near farm country
Language is weird.
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u/East-Ad7254 18h ago
Chicken: adorably neurotic genderless basket case of a bird that happens to occasionally display a propensity for garish noise and impromptu dance parties and also happen to be edible at every stage of life with varying degrees of bonelessness. Everything else is just background noise.
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u/Eudaimonic71 1d ago
Who’s having sex with the chickens??
https://giphy.com/gifs/izVmsl3y7DE4M
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u/one_two_o 1d ago
All Catholics are Christian, not all Christians are Catholic...kinds like All quarterbacks are football players but not all football players are quarterbacks
Catholics are no different in than any other denomination in thinking they are the best type of Christian lol. Idk what your ex was talking about. Imagine proudly giving yourself a label while fundamentally misunderstanding it
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u/DrakonSpawn 1d ago
It feels like you knew where you were in the first half, and then you thought you were responding to something totally different in the second half.
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u/swaggalicious86 1d ago
Who's wrong? I'm not a farmer
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u/Kelevra_55 1d ago
The one claiming chickens are female. Hens are female and roosters are male, they're both still chickens
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u/Dagordae 1d ago
Chicken is the species.
Hens are female, roosters are male. There’s a couple of other subdivisions depending on age which few people know or care about.
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u/DonkeyTron42 1d ago
Technically hens can spontaneously change into a rooster if they have a damaged ovary. https://nutrenaworld.com/blog/poultry/when-she-becomes-he-spontaneous-sex-reversal-in-chickens/
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u/kungfukenny3 1d ago
a chicken is a certain farm bird
a hen is a female chicken
a rooster is a male chicken
a capon is a castrated male chicken
the same way the name “seagull” or “ostrich” doesn’t denote any gendering, neither does chicken
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u/ForgottenEpoch 1d ago
Farmer here. From a linguistic perspective, chicken works just fine regardless of age or gender of the animal. Everybody knows what a chicken is. The same goes for "cow." In the cattle industry, cow, heifer, bull and steer Jane their specific meanings, but for non-farming folk cow gets the point across fine. People who nitpick like this are the type of people who hear a fact on their radio on the way to work and then can't help but spew it to every person they run into throughout the day like they're smarter than everybody around them. They're the worst.
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u/Mode_Appropriate 1d ago
Shouldnt you be in the field instead of using reddit? Farmers these days...
/s 😅
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u/BtyMark 1d ago
Valid point. If farmers play on Reddit all day, they’ll never be out standing in their field.
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u/FakingItSucessfully 1d ago
they are so outstanding in their field that they no longer have to be out standing in their field all the time
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u/Subtle__Numb 14h ago
Thanks. I was stuck in a scrolling haze, and this comment made me roll my eyes enough to kick my legs over the side of the bed and get up. Take your upvote and get outta here, lol
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u/nothanks86 1d ago
The one that gets me is animated boy cows with udders.
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u/ForgottenEpoch 1d ago edited 1d ago
Can you elaborate? Also, in regards to horns, a lot of people have the misconception that only bulls have horns, which just isn't the case.
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u/Dagordae 1d ago
It’s a common animation error. The most notorious one I know of is the movie Barnyard where the male main character has an udder for no explained reason.
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u/Lawh_al-Mahfooz 1d ago
I think the reason that we don’t want to see a giant cow dick swinging everywhere needs no explanation.
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u/Dave_A480 1d ago
Someone has never heard of the word HEN
Chickens are the species...
Boys are roosters/cocks
Girls are Hens
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u/buffer_flush 1d ago
Chicken is the animal, hens and roosters are the names
given to female and male chickens respectively.I could see this as being a common misunderstanding similar to a Cow is used to refer to Cattle in general, but a Cow is a female Cattle, and a Bull is a male Cattle.
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u/Teboski78 9h ago edited 9h ago
Cow is a bos taurus that’s been pregnant specifically. & therefore produces milk.
The nulliparous females are called heifers.
Bulls are only post pubescent males that haven’t been castrated.
Males castrated as calfs are steers. & males castrated after puberty are called oxen.
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u/farter-kit 1d ago
Let me understand: you got the hen, the chicken, and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So, who's having sex with the hen?
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u/Upvotespoodles 1d ago
People are always asking to pet my dogs when I walk my bitches. I’m so sick of the ignorance.
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