Writer Virgil Texas kicked off the drama by tweeting a 2014 article Davis gave to Mental Floss in which he claimed that Garfield, ‘by virtue of being a cat, really, he’s not really male or female or any particular race or nationality, young or old’.
‘FACT: Garfield has no gender. This. Is. Canon. I have updated the Garfield Wikipedia entry to reflect this fact,’ Texas tweeted.
Wiki editing war prompts Jim Davis to clarify Garfield’s gender
In solidarity with women, I am editing wikipedia to say that Garfield has a clitoris.
So he's a pussy cat