The Old Racist Cat

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We all used to love watching Winnie the Pooh and seeing Tigger bounce up and down, but it isn’t a great name for a cat. As you can see, there are quite a few names which shouldn’t be used for cats anymore and some that never should have been used in the first place. For instance, your cat is going to associate the scent of a person who gives it treats and cuddles with a positive experience. While unfamiliar scents or the scent of a person who bullies or doesn’t care about the cat might make the cat uncomfortable or fearful. Paying attention to how your cat reacts to diverse scents will give you rich insights into your cat’s preferences. Familiarity and Trust While the storyline and rich worldbuilding inherent in the series make it a classic sword and sorcery tale, Delany’s dense prose defies the fantasy genre, reminding you more of Tolstoy than Tolkien. At times, the prose is lyrical and lush as any fantasy should be. At other times, it becomes analytic and introspective, creating space for the reader to reflect and break down the themes of the story. While I see what you are doing here with the play on the words of purr and the name Percy, it’s not worth it.

Instead, consider selecting a name that is both unique and appropriate, reflecting your cat’s personality and charm.H.P. Lovecraft was a turn-of-the-20th-century author whose works were a key part of the subgenre of horror that would come to be known as “Weird fiction.” Born in Providence in 1890, Lovecraft grew up with an agonizing fear of both death and mental collapse. When he was 3 years old, his father had a psychological breakdown, probably related to syphilis, and Lovecraft moved in with his mother’s wealthy family. While it may seem funny or cute to give your cat an inappropriate name, it’s important to remember that your pet’s name is a reflection of both you and your cat. Necessarily, Lovecraft Country’s approach to Lovecraft’s legacy is simultaneously one of shrewd affection and resigned repugnance. For the problem with Lovecraft is that Lovecraft is everywhere. His influence is so ubiquitous within horror and fantasy that you simply can’t ignore it — nor is it always easy or simple to subvert it.

But before you do that, think about the implications of naming your cat after some weird word or offensive term. HP Lovecraft wasn’t just casually “a man of his times” racist, though. He voiced his opinions loudly, to whoever he could find to listen. He held tight to a rigidly elitist worldview where the English were at the top and everybody else was not only inferior but actually inhuman. Maybe it’s because of Garfield the cat, or maybe it’s because people just seem to know more orange cats (whether they’re straight-up orange or orange tabby) and associate them with good experiences, but lots of people think ginger kitties make the ideal family pet. The good news, though: the cat itself probably wasn’t racist. 10 Other Weird Fiction Books to Read Instead of HP Lovecraft All of these writers tended to play with the idea that unnatural or supernatural elements, perhaps even entire worlds, lurked just outside civilization, often adjacent or right next door to it; their unassuming (white male) characters often stumbled into or encountered these worlds and supernatural forces by accident. Lovecraft, working within the tradition in fiction of borrowing from and remixing other stories, often directly borrowed story elements from many of his fellow writers. Several recurring images run throughout their collective works, such as Bierce’s fictional city of Carcosa and Chambers’s “ the Yellow King,” both signifiers of encounters with other worlds and the unholy, unknowable monster who rules them.

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On June 12th, 2018, Tumblr [4] user greatpostsonline commented under the photograph of H. P. Lovecraft holding his friend's cat, posted by sandinlungs-blog, writing, "lovecraft and his cat n-… Additionally, using offensive or derogatory names can be harmful to your cat’s well-being and even your own reputation. The short answer to why his cat was named a racial slur is that HP Lovecraft was racist. His family, who originally named the cat, was racist. The majority of 19 th and early 20 th (and late 20 th and early 21 st) century America was racist. Naming pets after racial slurs was just a trendy thing to do.

And that’s perhaps the biggest Lovecraftian twist of all: the unknown cosmic terror, transformed into something as familiar and tawdry as everyday racism — and then vanquished with the light of understanding in favor of newer, better stories. Both examples show us that the act of disavowing racism in all forms in the UK is not morally universal, but contextual, mitigated and dependent on what side you are on. Put simply, being anti-racist is something that is up for debate. Now contrast all this with the public’s near total and uniform reaction to Zouma’s abhorrent abuse of his cat. No context required here. No mitigation. No debate. No redemption. It is wrong, plain and simple.By that time, he’d also established himself as a writer by contributing to the magazine medium commonly referred to as pulp fiction. At this point, I feel that the amount of feline Molly’s far exceeds the number of humans that hold the name.