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What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:51 pm
by Nuclear_Glitter
As many of us cannot sex our puffers we make up a gender and name. What gender do you call your puffer? From what I have gathered most people proclaim their puffer a male. Why do you think that is?
Re: What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:56 pm
by LilGreenPuffer
Historical chauvinism. It's ingrained that the default neutral gender is male.
Re: What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:05 am
by Srkoe
Ares-male
Fugu and Gizzy-male
4 of the peas-male, 2-female (for sure)
Bevo-male
Ashera-female
Manson-male
Wally-male
Marty-female
P-Nut-female
I think that covers all of them...lol!
If I had my way Ares would be a female...he was adopted as a boy so it stayed that way and he kept his original name. I personally think he is prissy if you will...maybe he is just metro...
Re: What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:19 am
by J-P
Mine is a boy but I call him the androgynous "Fatty"
Re: What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:23 pm
by sevenyearnight
J-P wrote: Mine is a boy but I call him the androgynous "Fatty"
HAHAHAHA!
Re: What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:11 pm
by BushFishRox
I think Bobo could be transgender...
Re: What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:48 pm
by jjj5311
I call my GSP big puffer, and my two dwarf puffers are little puffer and tiny puffer because one is much smaller than the other.
No gender in my names lol
Re: What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 3:17 pm
by bertie 83
My fahaka is fatboy so male lol. My dps I know which is which so it is what it is lol
Re: What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:12 pm
by Pufftastic
Except for the DPs, whose genders I know, I guess mine are just kind of asexual. I don't really think of the F8s as male or female.
Re: What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:34 am
by Dadof4
I don't assume sex on my puffers. My names are on pure personality.
Re: What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:33 pm
by ILoveLola
I decided my figure-eight was a female
And call her things such as "Lola," "Miss Lola," "Lolita," and "Fatty."
I named her so because when I read about puffers, & how adorable and yet very aggressive they are, I thought of the concept of a lolita! Pretty, but scandalous
...
Maybe also because I have two male dogs & a fiance, it was time for another girl in this house!
My fiance does pick on me about it sometimes though, he likes to tease that "he" is really upset I keep calling "him" Lola. Uuuugh.
Re: What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:55 am
by jjj5311
ILoveLola wrote:, he likes to tease that "he" is really upset I keep calling "him" Lola. Uuuugh.
Hhahahahaha lol
Re: What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:58 am
by xrayjeeper83
Mine are all guys
Re: What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:06 pm
by ILoveLola
xrayjeeper83 wrote:Mine are all guys
I thought you were calling Bacon a girl?
Re: What gender do you call your puffer?
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:09 pm
by xrayjeeper83
I just got Bacon.
So update
Bloat=male
Huey-male
Bacon=female