On "Pets" and "Its"
Animal Person
MARCH 18, 2010
Nobody stopped me" brings me to the parents, who were all omnivores (though there were two ex-vegetarians) and who were all thoroughly unaware of the language the children were using to refer to animals. We need language that doesn't support a divide between "pet" animals and everyone else. We do that with cats and dogs already, right?
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