There is a couple of high-profile pro-life, pro-natal, anti-abortionists in America on social media who have been criticising cat ladies for supporting abortion. One of them is Matt Gaetz. He has 1.4 million Twitter followers and describes himself as a firebrand and happy husband. He puts America first and is a Florida man, he …
On 11th August 1872, The New York Times published an article under the headline “Cats and Craziness’. The article can still be read if you subscribe to this newspaper, which I don’t. However, a short extract is published on the current New York Times website: “It is a curious fact that lunatics, especially those …
For donkey’s years the world has been under the misapprehension that there is a female of the human species who is obsessed with domestic cats, who keeps far too many of them, who is solitary, anxious and depressed, and has no friends. This is the so called ‘crazy cat lady’ and they don’t really …
There is no definition of ‘cat lady’ which specifies how many cats she must have to qualify. If the question was, “How many cats does it take to be a crazy cat lady?”, the answer would be: a lot! How much is a lot? I’d say more than a dozen. But it is up …
You can go way back into history and I’m mainly talking about English history to see the origins of the “crazy cat lady”. The images published on this page illustrate what I’m talking about. In the late 1700s (and I’m sure well before that) males were far more dominant towards females than they are …
The Sunday Times has reported on an interesting development regarding the ownership of cats. Historically, single women prefer cats to dogs. Practically the entire world believes that. However, the domestic cat as the pet of choice for a single woman is under threat from the cute French bulldog. The French bulldog is popular with …
There is male sexism behind the label “crazy cat lady”. Sexism from the male of the human species is endemic throughout the planet. It almost happens in a subconscious way. It appears to be in the DNA of the male. No doubt females are also sexist towards males but there is also no doubt …
An American manufacturer of novelty, fun items, Archie McPhee, has created a Crazy Cat Lady Coloring Book which contains, on at least two pages, sexist references to women. I think this book should be removed from their inventory until they clean it up. On one page they have a quiz entitled, “Find the kitty-related …
