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They smell the cat urine, boxed wine, and desperation all over her.

Yes, vicious. There is something about a woman adopting a cat that just sends men into a snarling tizzy. There are lots of single women with dogs, you know. “Dog moms” with “fur babies,” but men never comment about that. If a woman is single, the whole “cat lady” thing just triggers some sort of manic reaction in men. It’s the sort of sneering, glittery-eyed rage that makes women think, “We are safer with cats than with men.”