{"id":108299,"date":"2017-03-02T08:55:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T13:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=108299"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:31:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:31:27","slug":"108299","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/02\/108299\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of Garfield\u2019s Gender, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_108300\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/belgrade_zoo_garfield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108300\" class=\"wp-image-108300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/belgrade_zoo_garfield.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/belgrade_zoo_garfield.jpg 1122w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/belgrade_zoo_garfield-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/belgrade_zoo_garfield-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/belgrade_zoo_garfield-1024x823.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-108300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ungendered, unreal feline. Photo: Antomoro<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the third century <small>B.C.<\/small>, Alexandria had one hell of a\u00a0library\u2014the finest center of learning in the ancient world, an iconic metaphor for humanity\u2019s quest for knowledge, et cetera. Then it was burned. After that, the city lacked a decent library for, oh, several centuries \u2026 then several more \u2026 then a few more after that \u2026 until, in 2002, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina opened, restoring the promise of antiquity. That library sprung from the efforts of Mostafa A. H. el-Abbadi, an Egyptian historian who died last month at eighty-eight. Jonathan Guyer writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/28\/world\/middleeast\/mostafa-el-abbadi-great-library-of-alexandria.html\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Abbadi\u2019s dream of a new library\u2014a modern version of the magnificent center of learning of ancient times\u2014could be traced to 1972<\/a> \u2026 \u2018If we want to justify our claim to be connected spiritually with the ancient tradition, we must follow the ancient example by starting a great universal library\u2019 \u2026 When Nixon visited Egypt in 1974, he and President Anwar el-Sadat rode by train to Alexandria\u2019s ancient ruins to observe their faded grandeur. When Nixon asked about the ancient library\u2019s location and history, no one in the Egyptian entourage had an answer. [Professor Abbadi realized] how deeply the ancient library resonated, not only with Egyptians but also with many around the world who shared his scholarly thirst.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>But who needs libraries when we\u2019ve got Wikipedia, right? Yes, the future of knowledge is radically decentralized, completely free \u2026 and, now, engaged in a knockdown, drag-out war over the gender identity of a lasagna-loving cartoon cat. Avi Selk and Michael Cavna explain, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/comic-riffs\/wp\/2017\/03\/01\/is-garfield-a-boy-how-a-cartoon-cats-gender-identity-sparked-a-war-on-wikipedia\/?utm_term=.45c9d3884a01\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia had to put\u00a0Garfield\u2019s page on lockdown\u00a0last week after a sixty-hour editing war in which the character\u2019s\u00a0listed gender vacillated back and forth indeterminately like a\u00a0cartoon version of Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat: male one minute; not the next<\/a>. \u2018He may have been a boy in 1981, but he\u2019s not now,\u2019 one editor argued \u2026 \u2018Every character (including Garfield himself!) constantly refers to Garfield unambiguously as male, and always using male pronouns,\u2019 one\u00a0editor wrote\u2014listing nearly three dozen\u00a0comic strips across nearly four decades \u2026 Garfield\u2019s gender swapped\u00a0twenty times over two-and-a-half days (during which his religion was briefly listed as Shiite Muslim for some reason) before an administrator was forced to step in.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forget your readerly anxieties; read any book you want, whenever you want, for however long you want. Dan Dixon argues against literary evangelism: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/overland.org.au\/2017\/03\/against-literary-evangelicals\/\" target=\"_blank\">The silent reader is an enigma \u2026 This is why social media fetishizes books as objects<\/a>. It is easier to express (and inhabit) a reading aesthetic than it is to describe reading \u2026 Reading is multifarious\u2014if we were to develop a list of features common to every literary experience it would be very short\u2014yet people want to make rules about books. We are driven to evaluate them, and through them ourselves \u2026 I have seen and experienced the discomfort associated with failing to understand or finish a text, and the impulse to measure and rank and explain. Teaching literature often means diagnosing and circumnavigating these insecurities \u2026 That we turn to books in times of great emotional need, during political crises, and to find a way through mourning speaks to their power. But, as with friendships, they do not need to be life changing to be valuable.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Kate Moore\u2019s book <em>The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America\u2019s Shining Women<\/em> tells of the teenage girls who worked in radium-dial factories during World War I, painting glow-in-the-dark numbers onto watches and airplane instruments. The paint made them literally glow as they went home in the evening\u2014and, not long after, caused an abundance of health problems, leading them to die of radiation poisoning. Moore says, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/03\/radium-girls-kate-moore\/515685\/\" target=\"_blank\">[The radium] was luminous. It was emitting radioactivity. They thought of it as magical<\/a>. In the book, I quote the husband of one of the girls who was a dial painter. He writes about seeing her smock from work hanging up in the bedroom and it gives him the feeling of \u2018a ghost bouncing around on the wall\u2019 \u2026 \u00a0I think they did think the girls were expendable and disposable. The thing that got me was when Arthur Roeder, the president of the United States Radium Corporation, was on the stand, he was asked, \u2018What was the first case that you knew of?\u2019 He says, \u2018I don\u2019t remember the name.\u2019 Essentially, you\u2019ve killed these people and you can\u2019t remember their name. That for me was stunning.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The romantic comedy, for so long the vessel holding our dreams of lifelong love, is turning its back on the concept of soul mates. Danielle Friedman writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2017\/03\/why-happily-ever-after-isnt-cool-anymore.html\" target=\"_blank\">After decades of rom-coms pushing the idea that our love lives are controlled by destiny, that a singular person completes us, it seems we\u2019re<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>in the throes of a soul mate backlash<\/a> \u2026 <em>The Good Place<\/em>\u2019s creator, Michael Schur (who also created\u00a0<em>Parks and Rec<\/em>), suggests this is so ripe for parody because it\u2019s something we want\u00a0<em>so badly<\/em>. It\u2019s \u2018sort of the central dream of our human existence, that there is a person floating around somewhere who will fulfill you in every magical way and make you feel whole,\u2019 Schur told me in an e-mail. \u2018I get it, though. Existence can be alienating and lonely, being (as we are) trapped inside our own brains, so it\u2019s only natural we would both individually and collectively believe in the idea that there is a kind of missing puzzle piece out there somewhere.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: rebuilding the great library of Alexandria, bickering about Garfield\u2019s gender identity, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[5581,1773,17447,20816,675,7148,27606,27609,27607,27608,53,13449,27610,1291],"class_list":["post-108299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-alexandria","tag-egypt","tag-factories","tag-garfield","tag-gender","tag-libraries","tag-mostafa-a-h-el-abbadi","tag-radiation-poisoning","tag-radium","tag-radium-girls","tag-reading","tag-romantic-comedies","tag-soul-mates","tag-wikipedia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Garfield\u2019s Gender Identity Caused a Fierce Wikipedia Dispute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news: rebuilding the great library of Alexandria, bickering about Garfield\u2019s gender identity, and more.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/02\/108299\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Mystery of Garfield\u2019s Gender, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"March 2, 2017 \u2013 In today\u2019s roundup: rebuilding the great library of Alexandria, bickering about Garfield\u2019s gender identity, and more.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/02\/108299\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-03-02T13:55:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-03-02T15:31:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/belgrade_zoo_garfield.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1122\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"902\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/02\/108299\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/02\/108299\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dan Piepenbring\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8\"},\"headline\":\"The Mystery of Garfield\u2019s Gender, and Other News\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-02T13:55:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-03-02T15:31:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/02\/108299\/\"},\"wordCount\":932,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/02\/108299\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/belgrade_zoo_garfield.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Alexandria\",\"Egypt\",\"factories\",\"Garfield\",\"gender\",\"libraries\",\"Mostafa A. 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