
Idea taken from this discussion.
The picture is not definitive but gives the idea. If mods will like it I'll be more than eager to perfect it :)
could one of her dots be the Venus symbol?
Nice insight!
I love the unsubtle one... radical feminists are not known for our subtlety 😭
Really? But all the terf dogwhistles!
I stand corrected! I forgot that we also can covertly shapeshift into tradwife damsels in distress
I love this because all calicos have two x chromosomes* and, with the exception of rare xxy male calicos, all calicos are female. :D
*This is through a process called x-inactivation. To keep things short: each XX cell (in cats humans and other placental mammals) will only "listen" to signals from one x chromosome and "ignore" signals from the other. The black and orange (or grey and cream in my dilute calico cat's case) result from some patches listening (among other things) to the black signal from one chromosome or the orange signal from the other.
Cats can't have both a black and orange signal coming from the same chromosome. Because of that, XY cats will only get one or the other (or some version of it, such as grey, cream, white etc), potentially with hue variations such as stripes, spots, etc.
The moral of the story: you can paint some orange spots on an XY black and white cat and call it a calico, but science knows all calicos have 2 X chromosomes. ;)
Thanks for the explanation! It was very interesting :D
Thanks for saying so!! I was nervous because sure I wasn't sure how common knowledge this is and did want to come off as condescending so this is reassuring ☺️
I love her! What do we called her?
I don't know, I haven't thought that far haha
Hrm, I think she should be Evie, short for evil TERF cat haha
Just like us, she is an unfairly maligned cat who cares about women!
Uh, I like that! Well, calling her plain "Eve" is interesting too :D but Evie sounds more appropriate for a cat
omg I LOVE HER
Me too! She's so sweet. I hope it takes off.