The word “barring” in the context of my comment means “with the exception of”

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Oh man!

I totally forgot there even was a cat in Haruhi! Haven’t seen that show in like 15 years.

I stated the exception to the rule in my own comment, I’m just not gonna hedge my bets when the odds are 99.967% in my favor.

Thanks for the adorable photo!

My understanding is that the X chromosome carries the gene for red cat fur. Female calicos have one X with the red fur gene and one without. If a cat only has X chromosomes that carry the red fur gene, they’ll be an red-furred cat, which is why the only male calicos are XXY. An XY male cat with the red fur gene on their X chromosome just comes out red.

I don’t see how some separate “simple congenital deformity” other than an extra X could account for red fur.

I could be wrong, I’m not a cat scientist, I just grew up knowing hundreds of cats.

Learned about calico cats or kids raised by cat breeders?

Either way, as long as you fact check, doesn’t matter where you first learned something.

Which anime, btw? I’m curious

Ah, you’re right. It’d be 0.03333333…%

I’ll edit

What do you think the word “barring” means? My original comment noted the sole exceptional case.

Yeah, I guess people raised by cat breeders are pretty rare.

I didn’t say it was impossible.

That said, if somebody gave me the option to bet on a calico cat being female, I would always take that bet because I’d only be wrong about one in three thousand times (0.03333…% of the time) if the cat was randomly selected, whereas other coat colors it’d be 50-50.

That’s a female cat. Calico cats are exclusively female, barring cats with extra chromosomes which are extremely rare.

No, you’re not seeing things. No links included.

Weird

As an old anime fan, welcome to the club lol

This has the same solution as the original. You ask them “which door would your brother say leads to certain doom?” and then you take that door.

Here I googled it for you

yeah, I went ahead and blocked their instance this time. Fool me once…

I’m a pansexual man married to a pansexual woman. We’re both millenials.

Basically, when we were growing up, there was a perception that men who were ever attracted to other men, in any context and for any reason, were considered fully gay, which at the time meant bullying, being ostracized, threats of violence, and generally being treated as a lesser by your peers.

This waned somewhat as we got to high school and disappeared for the most part some time in the mid 2010s (so, well after graduation), but the cultural scar is still there.

Even now I’d call myself mostly-closeted. People from my generation and older will treat (or at least historically have treated) a man as if he’s gay and in-denial even if he’s like a solid 2 on the Kinsey scale. That’s annoying in-itself, but the scars of how our culture was when I was growing up make it a deeply frightening prospect. I have no idea how many friends I’d lose. I hope it’d be zero since I try to pick good people, but who knows?

Being old sucks. Don’t let the olds lie and say the culture was better back in the day. It wasn’t. They either floated by with crazy privilege or decided their emotionally stunting trauma was a good thing.

Also applies at most extreme metal shows I’ve been to

Adult dragons can shapeshift, so the same way you’d fuck anyone else.

Cool!

I’ve been reading your blog and watching your videos for a while now