eyeballjellomold: erinptah: eyeballjellomold: bicatperson: I just want everyone to take a moment
I just want everyone to take a moment and appreciate Krazy Kat.
- for context: Krazy’s unrequited crush is a pillar of the strip, Ignatz Mouse is being unusually patient here, and Joe Stork is literally the magic stork who delivers babies
- all these characters are canonically male
- Joe Stork’s only objection to this potential romance is “what if the kids turn out like Ignatz”
- this was published in newspapers in 1920
Krazy Kat is actually canonically genderfluid! The pronouns change constantly.
I’ve definitely gone through multi-year collections of strips that only ever refer to Krazy as “he.” Can’t think offhand of any examples that use “she”.
(People have used it when writing essays aboutthe series, but that’s different from it being inthe series, and tbh seems to be driven by “this is undeniably romantic, so it must actually be m/f, how could any other gender combo make sense??” than anything else.)
Can you point us to some sources?
@erinptah I’m editing my original reblog of this, since “pronoun” was a semantic specific, but I stand by Krazy Kat being canonically genderfluid, even if the pronouns don’t shift- every other determiner shifts!
I would really like to see the full strips that go with the individual panels you linked!
I’m not trying to pick a fight, honest – trans & nonbinary characters are important, I have other canon favorites that I love and support – but characters who are joyfully unconcerned about stepping outside their gender’s socially-mandated roles/determiners are important too, you know?
