teytey:p
March 30, 2026 at 7:49:24 AM
github ok ?:
smallkittens
why did the chicken cross the road?!?!
Replied on: March 30, 2026 at 8:35:08 AM
I've always wondered. In this passage, why is the gender of the chicken left unsaid? Why not specify that it is a big cock, or a caring hen? I like to think there's a deeper, philosophical meaning to this. What is the reason, exactly as to why the chicken crossed the road? Is it because he's late for a cockfight, and he's trying to get there in the quickest way he can, despite risking his own life— mirroring how the average man pushes himself to life-endangering conditions just to do the job society tells him to do, if he wants to survive? Or perhaps it's a lost hen, trying to find her way back to the farm so she can go back to her lousy life of laying eggs and only laying eggs? Does she really need to cross the road? But if she doesn't, what else would she do? Does this mirror how society thinks that women are only expected to have the sole purpose of childbirth, housewifery and nothing more? Why must a chicken cross the road in the first place, if they would only end up in a place that'd break them down slower than if a vehicle were to run over them?
Thank you, @smallkittens. For signing my ata.