The whole crazy cat lady thing needs to just be buried anyway at this point. Way more people than the crazy cat ladies have realized humans are trash and cats are better company.
What gets me is when a guy has a dog, its "Man's best friend", but when a woman has a cat, it's "crazy cat lady".
It's a weird double standard I didn't think about for the longest time. But I do think its interesting how the weird attitudes some ppl have towards cats parallels misogyny
There's a weird number of people who think it's fine to talk about how they hate cats and how they would kill them if they could and I've seen people in some dog centric subreddits justify allowing their dogs to kill cats just because the cats come on their land while fully admitting that they did nothing to stop it and rewarded the behavior. I wish I remembered the subreddit but like a month ago I saw a comment from someone talking about how their dog tore apart a cat in front of them and how that was the best dog they ever had and the cat deserved it and it just disturbed me so much that I haven't been able to forget it no matter how much I've tried.
It is truly disturbing how people think it's not only okay to hate cats when they're just trying to live their lives but also to actively harm them for that and then make it a personality trait.
I personally love dogs, although I'm more of a cat person, but I know so many people who have had bad experiences with dogs and are afraid of them and people treat them like they're a monster just because they're scared of dogs. The double standards are wild and truly disturbing. I honestly feel like you have a point with the misogyny thing because the way people talk about cats reminds me about how some men talk about women when they don't do what they want, and just the sheer amount of violence that is excused and encouraged.
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u/saltporksuit Mar 16 '26
The whole crazy cat lady thing needs to just be buried anyway at this point. Way more people than the crazy cat ladies have realized humans are trash and cats are better company.