Sep 06, 2005 17:23
So I'm doing okay, if a little harried, and so are the gerbils, who are beginning to demonstrate their personalities. Tuesday makes a big production out of gathering nesting material for their box, and Frankly hogs the exercise wheel at night to demonstrate his male prowess. They also tussle more than I remember my first clan doing; lots of rough-housing which I don't quite understand, given that I am not a gerbil. However, if I imperialistically project my culture onto theirs, I can assert that it must be something like,
"Who's your daddy? Who's your daddy, huh? I'm gonna groom you, bitch!"
and in doing so have heartlessly conflated the anthropomorphized behavior of animals, the bestial Other, with the black racial Other and the working-class hierarchical Other. Possibly also the inverse male Other, because they are boy gerbils, but perhaps I'm just their Other because I am Woman. And evil.
What the hell is this song? I never heard this song at CTY, but it's supposed to be canon for some site or another.
fun stuff,
pets: gerbils