Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · Apr 28 1 / 2
And, for comparison, here are mentions of e.g. Mother Wolf vs Father Wolf over that same time period. There are ebbs and flows, yes, but there’s no point at which 95% of anthropomorphized wolves were one gender or the other. So, what changed? There is, I think, an interesting story to that.
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The answer, which I think reflects America’s shifting relationship with the animal, is a dramatic falloff in stories about Mama Coyote, *specifically*. Coyote families were a regular feature of early 20th century stories. Thornton Burgess (Old Mother West Wind) wrote them on the regular :P