At the risk of making you feel more piled-upon (though, to be clear, I am thoroughly in agreement with maga, dfabulich, cvaneseltine, et al in this thread), and with the knowledge that you and I come from different language backgrounds:
This made me cringe almost as much as the rest of this thread’s discussion. Please don’t refer to humans as animals; please especially don’t refer to women as “whales,” even if you meant it lovingly. This is a term with a lot of negative connotations!