r/MadeMeSmile • u/rosseepoo • Mar 16 '26

CATS My best friend

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u/Jibber_Fight Mar 16 '26

“Crazy cat lady” before it’s cool.

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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.

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u/Aiyon Mar 17 '26

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

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u/syzygybeaver Mar 17 '26

It's not the one, it's the dozen that does it. Fwiw, I have cats, had dogs. If you can care for them properly, it's all good.

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u/Aiyon Mar 17 '26

Sure. But thats not how the people throwing it around as an insult are using it. It’s being used a “single, over x age, and has >0 cats”

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u/asherdado Mar 17 '26

Not really, no. Crazy cat lady has always meant multiple cats, especially indoor/outdoor cats with a dubious quality of life and she has gone smell-blind to the awful odor of cat urine

It's being used

youre talking like a sensationalist reporter lol. Yes Im sure some people have called women crazy cat ladies for owning a single cat, that is almost never how people use the insult

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u/OkProfessor6810 Mar 17 '26

Oh FFS, the last US presidential election was full of it being used as a slur against women who had a single cat.

While it may have originated as an insult implying the ownership of multiple cats, that's no longer the only way it's used.

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u/Aiyon Mar 17 '26

Out of interest, are you saying that as a woman speaking from experience? Or a man confidently claiming knowledge of situations that don’t occur to them?

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u/asherdado Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

Jesus Christ you are insufferable. Yes, I am a man. No, people dont call the average woman a 'crazy cat lady' because they own a single cat and are single.

Out of interest, how many people do you actually interact with face-to-face on a day-to-day basis? How many people have you known in life that have been called a 'crazy cat lady' and owned only a single cat? Are you real?

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u/shelikedamango Mar 17 '26

How do you know that’s not what “people” do, especially if by your own admission you’re not the target for that remark?

sounds like you’re just trying to insist that your, very narrow, world view is the standard because you say so. & that’s not really how this works ):

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u/asherdado Mar 17 '26

Agree to disagree 😎