# Tweety Bird **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 17, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird/10543 "2000-04-17T23:08:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird/10543/1 "2000-04-17T23:08:00Z")
Withheld in Cecil’s archive, are the answers to many mysteries of the animation world, such as: “What was Barney Rubble’s job?” and so on. However, one of the q&a has seemed to allegedly vanished. I vividly recall having once read the topic, “Is Tweety Bird of Looney Tunes male or female?” I have not been able to find this q&a recently. I have searched every mailbag, recent columns, and classic sections. If I remember correctly, the “official” answer was that Tweety was gender-free, aka neuter. Does anyone remember a column on this subject and where it may be located? I was debating this topic with a friend recently and wanted to show them the article, but it was nowhere to be found. Teeming Millions, please help! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird/10543/2 "2000-04-17T23:29:00Z")
I can’t find a straight dope article on-line, but Ken Hoffman from the Houston Chronicle says Tweety is a male, with, however, no evidence to back up his assertion. [Sweetly singing in the trees, is Tweety a her, or is he a he?](http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/features/hoffman/320890) ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird/10543/3 "2000-04-17T23:35:00Z")
Well, Tweety is either a hetero male or a lesbian. The reason I claim this is that it was hotly debated amongst my brothers and I until we saw a cartoon where Sylvester climbed up a pole to Tweety’s nest, dressed his index finger up in a miniscule dress, bonnet, and make up, and poked it up to the edge of the nest in an effort to temp Tweety away from safety. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird/10543/4 "2000-04-17T23:46:00Z")
I go by sound, myself. Tweety has a distinctly male tenor voice, so I always assumed “male”. Mel Blanc? Or am I in the wrong cartoon? * * * “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen ---
**Author:** ![Twizzlers\_13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@Twizzlers\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twizzlers_13)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird/10543/5 "2000-04-18T01:03:00Z")
to phouka. I remember that episode, and i’m on your side. Along with that, and that his voice is strongly male, i belive tweety too be male, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird/10543/6 "2000-04-18T01:13:00Z")
Tweety was straight and male. Admittedly not overly masculine but a male. Barney Rubble’s hopperoo was sexually ambiguous (Sp?). It was referred to both she and he. (it must have been a she as it has a pouch) ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird/10543/7 "2000-04-18T05:12:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Barney Rubble’s hopperoo was sexually ambiguous (Sp?). It was referred to both she and he. (it must have been a she as it has a pouch) Now I’m wondering about all of those cartoon kangaroos that are male, but have pouches. Must be hermaphrodites ;). * * * Synonym: the word you use in place of a word you can’t spell.