You would think that’s a given right? I
mean how many times has Jon, Garfield’s owner, said “Good boy” to him? How many
times has Garfield called himself a “he”? I mean Garfield even has a girlfriend
he treats badly! Garfield is clearly male right?
Not according to some and the worse thing
is; they may have a point.
It seems that 2 years ago, Garfield’s creator
Jim Davis (in a bout of total insanity) was quoted as saying “By virtue of
being a cat, really, he's not really male or female or any particular race or
nationality, young or old."
No one really cared about the quote 2 years
ago but then a satirist dug the quote up and updated the Garfield Wikipedia
entry to reflect the fact. Cue a war on Wikipedia between the various editors
and Garfield's gender was changed no less than 20 times before an administrator
of Wikipedia stepped in to lock the gender as “male”.
Right now, the war had died down because
Davis released a statement saying "Garfield is male; he has a girlfriend,
Arlene." Good to know Mr. Davis, but it really shouldn’t be a question in
the first place.
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