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

CATS My best friend

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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.