41 thoughts on “Spot the panda!

    1. Very bold to use a definite pronoun, we have no clues to their gender expression or preference . . .

  1. Yep. Middle to the right. Easy after you’ve looked for night jars. Probably indicates something dire and appalling about me.

    1. Ha, sorry, I took another look and now it jumped out to me (again). But the first, harder one is still legitimate as a panda interpretation. (It’s looking out to the left of High Hat Panda.)

  2. I thought this was a cruel, time-wasting joke…until I read the answer on the comments section and found it.

    I am clearly not built for survival in the wild.

  3. There is a panda there. There is no penguin. I looked pretty thoroughly before I found the panda and realized that is what it says – Spot the Panda. (Not penguin.)

  4. Regarding the snowmen v snowpersons distinction, they don’t display any secondary sexual characteristics that could tip us off to their biological sex. However, their clothing is gender-marked as male, at least slightly: top hat and scarves that are gender-neutral but leaning towards gender-male coloring. That is, no makeup, no jewelry, no scarves with flowers, and no pastel colors. Not that female has to mean floral, pastel, and facial paint, but representationally, how else could the snowmen have been disambiguously female without giving them breasts? It appears the argument comes down to whether the original designation of snowmen as men was sexist. But should we rename them now? Maybe we should interrupt language that refers to humans (even representational ones like snow creatures) as male, but how is this different than renaming buildings?

    1. In the very old days I used to build snow women as well as men. They were as anatomically correct as my juvenile mind could conceive. I have pictures somewhere…

  5. Incidentally, is “Spot, The Panda” as much of a misnomer as “Patch The Dalmatian dog”?
    I shall obey the injunctive and take black (and white) spray paints to my local panda enclosure.
    I wonder, what about painting them with GREEN spots?

  6. Upper right-lower quadrant.

    I wonder what flavors these snowmen are. I always ask about the snowfall forecast – the flavor of snow. Vanilla yum 😊

  7. Saw this earlier in the week via Facebook and now I can’t look at it without going directly to that damn panda!

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