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Why is Tweety's gender confused?

Discussion in 'Warner Bros.' started by Lincon, Oct 26, 2019.

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    Lincon Apprentice Forum Member New Member

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    Hello everyone,,
    Tweety is obviously a boy and he was voiced by a male voice artist, the uber-talented Mel Blanc.

    Did this gender-confusion have something to do with Tweety's childlike demeanor?
    Lincon, Oct 26, 2019
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    saltyboot A Moderating Moderator Staff Member Forum Member

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    It could be. Maybe also because his voice was high?
    I personally never had any confusion on this. I thought it was obvious that Tweety is a boy.
    saltyboot, Oct 27, 2019
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    That's likely: Tweety's damsel-in-distress defense mechanism could easily suggest that Tweety Pie is a girl. Further muddying the waters is that Tweety's debut cartoon, A Tale of Two Kitties, has him in pink feathers. Also very jowl-y, like a bulldog, and quite the nasty adversary. I'm not aware of any canon work that definitely names Tweety's gender; Tweety usually gets the "him" pronoun from Sylvester, but that could be a generic "him" rather than a knows-for-sure "him."
    oneuglybunny, Oct 27, 2019
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    saltyboot A Moderating Moderator Staff Member Forum Member

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    I thought Tweety was pink because he was naked. His feathers hadn't grown in yet.
    saltyboot, Oct 27, 2019
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    Lincon Apprentice Forum Member New Member

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    Thank you my issue has been solved,...
    Lincon, Oct 31, 2019
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    Tweety was always male, "biologically," to me. Even with the "young voice" as it was, it was never a question for me.
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    Perhaps Tweety can be a Girl, but I have always thought that Tweety is a male.
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    That is true...the animators made Tweety bald since many baby birds are once they hatched...but someone called-out on it and had Tweety grow feathers (Tweety is STILL naked despite having yellow feathers).
    MrCleveland, Feb 15, 2020
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    I also felt that way with Nermal once...I didn't realize that Nermal from Garfield and Friends is a boy until later in life...maybe because Nermal has eyelashes and was voiced by a woman named Desirée Goyette-Bogas.

    So Nermal is like Tweety in that way.
    MrCleveland, Feb 24, 2020
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    About that ^, Mister Cleveland: Jim Davis has gone on record that he draws eyelashes to convey dewy youthfulness, not gender. So, any youngster in the Garfield universe will have eyelashes, girl or boy. This also applies to his parallel series, U.S. Acres.
    oneuglybunny, Feb 25, 2020
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    I've seen the early drawings of Orson T. Pig with eyelashes...but I wonder how many people wondered if Nermal was a girl because of the famale voice and eyelashes?

    Have other cartoons used eyelashes to show cuteness?
    MrCleveland, Feb 25, 2020
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