Helpful Cat Is… Unhelpful
This is most of an “ink and color on silk” hanging scroll painting by Japanese artist Kawanabe Kyôsai (1831 – 1889) that’s in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. It reminds me of this post from a dozen years ago:
I will not bat at my male human’s family jewels while he is engaged in the act of mating with my female human, no matter how tempting the danglies are. My humans get mad and I might get free flying lessons.
In several of the places where this artwork appears on the internet, it’s tagged as “gay” or “homoerotic”. Given that we see nothing of the penetrated figure except feet and legs, I wonder whether this is simply the natural tendency of the taggers to see the scene they wanted to see in an ambiguous work of art, or whether it’s art-historian stuff based on evidence extrinsic to the work?
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Even without the pet, this position ought to break your knees. Ouch.
Can it be gay if I clearly see a pussy? :-)
I am not the “is it gay” police, however if you clearly see a pussy you’re looking with different vision than me.
The ears say pussycat, but the tail says dog, and some dogs have pointy ears. The animal could also intentionally be ambiguous, like the other person is.
I think that’s Andre’s joke, that the animal is a pussy, and the word ‘bat’ as a verb is usually only ascribed to cats. A dog might ‘paw’ at something, it won’t usually be said to ‘bat’ at something. And I think a student of the veterinary sciences would probably say something about common shoulder structures and cats.
So I’m going to agree with Andre and say I see a pussy too :D
Doh! That joke went strictly over my head, sorry Andre!
Too many feline signifiers in that creature for me to entertain the dog theory, but you’re right Justin, that’s not as unambiguous as I imagined either.
And who bats balls? Cats, not dogs.
Sometimes you grope pussy. Sometimes pussy gropes you. Ouch!
Cats will do that by the way. Especially younger ones…