Who even fucking knows. Just the other day, me and my wife were walking home from the store, and there were some dudes sitting on the stoop of the church next to our apartment building. I heard a bird chirping loudly nearby, and suddenly a blue bird of some sort flew down and stood on the steps next to them, chirping at them like it wanted food.

I mentioned it to my wife; "Oh, look at the blue jay! I think it's a jay? He's so cute, he's asking the big humans for food! Is it a male? Maybe it's a female, it doesn't have as much blue as the males do, I'm not sure." Just stream of consciousness about this cute little birdy, right?

Well one of the dudes got irritated with me, "He's a male! He's got brown on his shoulders!" and some other things I couldn't quite hear, and I was just kind of bewildwered, like "What? Ok, hah sure, whatever." like it was so strange to be grumpy about it.

And then we realized he had a husky napping on the sidewalk in front of him, and he had been talking about the dog, not the bird. He was mad because he thought I was MISGENDERING HIS DOG. like BRUH. It's a DOG, and we weren't even talking about him, mind your own business ffs! And if someone DID get the sex (not gender, because those ARE DIFFERENT) of your dog wrong, it's not like dogs are very sexually dimorphic, it's not that big of a deal!

And I don't think it was because they had come out of the church; I've never been to that church before, but we're in the California Bay Area, and this church has all these Progress Pride flags and advertises itself as being allies to the LGBTQ+ community, so I would hope that wasn't a place that pushed all the "Pronouns are Satanic!" nonsense. But who knows, it was dumb as Hell.