Protest Against "Correctness"

  Okay, so I'll be honest; I read and watch a lot of really weird and random stuff.


  A lot.


  Some of them have animals as main characters.


  Whenever I see/read one like that (regardless of what it is), they never fail to refer, at least once, to a  generality (anyone, everyone) with the prefix "any" or "every" followed by the type of animal (i.e: anycat, everymouse, etc.).

 This bothers me.
 A lot.
Allow me to explain why.

While I can understand the need to feel "correct," and make sure the viewer understands that these are animals, the terms "anyone" and "everyone" refer to any "one," as in "individual," or every "one" as in a group of individuals. This could be a human, a cat, a frog, a talking trash can, I don't care. But the terms are anyone and everyone.

.....

Really.

Not "anycat."



That is all.