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How ‘cat lady’ became an insult for women of a certain age
CNN ^ | 7/27/24 | Scottie Andrew

Posted on 08/04/2024 11:22:20 AM PDT by DallasBiff

The stereotypical “cat lady” is one of pop culture’s most bizarre characters — and easiest punching bags.

She’s “The Simpsons” recurring character Eleanor Abernathy, a reclusive resident of Springfield who speaks in gibberish and hurls her cats at passersby. She’s bedridden “Big Edie” Beale, tucked inside Grey Gardens, cuddling kittens while raccoons, rats and nature eat away at her decrepit mansion. She’s even Robert DeNiro in a 2004 sketch from “Saturday Night Live,” in which he plays a eccentric woman who lives with 80 cats.

She’s … Vice President Kamala Harris?

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I know cat lovers flame away, but I knew of only one cat, that was nice, I guess there is an exception to every rule.

Growing up a long time ago, there was a catlady on our suburban street.

1 posted on 08/04/2024 11:22:20 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Hell “black jobs” are now an insult. We need to quit playing the left-wing’s game. Trump showed us how to do it at the Rally in Atlanta.


2 posted on 08/04/2024 11:23:31 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: DallasBiff

Yet there they are... +40s with cats.


3 posted on 08/04/2024 11:23:56 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: DallasBiff

4 posted on 08/04/2024 11:24:32 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: DallasBiff

The Perpetually Offended.


5 posted on 08/04/2024 11:25:33 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: for-q-clinton

The left lives for language distortion.

No matter what is said they will weaponize it against you.

The only solution is toughness and resilience.


6 posted on 08/04/2024 11:27:15 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: DallasBiff

Can’t call people names, who call us names...


7 posted on 08/04/2024 11:28:37 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: cgbg

“The left lives for language distortion.”

But they are allowed to say whatever they want because it is true.


8 posted on 08/04/2024 11:29:42 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: glorgau

And boxes of white wine.


9 posted on 08/04/2024 11:30:11 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: alternatives?

I guess we need “guard-rails” against “disinformation”.

Lol.


10 posted on 08/04/2024 11:31:55 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: DallasBiff

Forty seven million cat owner households.


11 posted on 08/04/2024 11:32:16 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DallasBiff

If the cat fits...


12 posted on 08/04/2024 11:34:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: DallasBiff

you guys are getting a lot of mileage out of this.


13 posted on 08/04/2024 11:34:40 AM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: for-q-clinton

Don’t say “black jobs”. Instead, say “black jobs, soon to be illegal’s jobs”.


14 posted on 08/04/2024 11:36:59 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: ansel12
Maybe the liberals should blame DC comics, from the 1940's


15 posted on 08/04/2024 11:38:03 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: cgbg

Anything you say can and will be held against you in the court of lefties’ public opinion.


16 posted on 08/04/2024 11:40:01 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: DallasBiff
Image from Gyazo


NOT INVENTED HERE
17 posted on 08/04/2024 11:40:36 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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Now you can’t even be silent because...

“Silence is violence”

according to lefties.

The only acceptable behavior is full throated agreement with every insane thing they say.


18 posted on 08/04/2024 11:42:11 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: DallasBiff

Nothing to flame about, although to me it does appear that cat lady can mean one of two things.

1) Woman who owns/hoards/collects cats. #2 may also be applicable to these women.

2) Dopamine addicted, often bitter 30+ year old white women (predominantly liberal, can also be married, in a relationship, or single moms) who talk about their fur babies on dating app profiles. These women will never be happy because of feminist indoctrination, delusions of life and relationships being based on Disney and Hollywood movies, and their ability to pair bond was blown out with their backs in their 20’s and 30’s. They tend to disregard about 90% of men (until it’s time to settle, not settle down, just settle), because they’re in love with being in love with men who will just pump and dump them ultimately leaving They will loyally vote democrat on a solely irrational and emotional basis. Did I mention that they refer to themselves as “dog mom”, “cat mom” or talk about their “fur babies”. They’re frequently at the slightest provocation, especially when you refer to them as cat ladies.


19 posted on 08/04/2024 11:44:03 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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The love of my life, who broke my heart 50 years ago, is now a cat lady. The guy she married either left her, or she kicked him out.

Ironically, she’s a conservative now. She was a lefty in high school in college.

But a cat lady she certainly is.


20 posted on 08/04/2024 11:49:05 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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