I like to think that my contribution is the low, low brow to elevate the greater conversation. You are definitely in the upper-echelon. You're being modest!
I have been feeling a bit obliged to send out some quick notes about this. "Crazy Cat Lady" is actually a much older negative stereotype that didn't include Julia, or women like her. Crazy Cat Lady is one I first ran into in Agatha Christie, where she drove most of her neighborhood crazy, although the mothers worked hard to make their children respect her and her wishes. (It didn't go well, and Poirot didn't like her.)
Crazy cat ladies are comfortably well off, deliberately had no real social contacts, and were so focused on their usually large groups of cats to the point that they were willing to sue or abuse neighbors if they worried the cats were in any way bothered.
They also had very limited, shallow, impractical views of the world, from the conviction that their darling cats would never leave their yard or scratch a child/pet/or other outside their yard....
To political situations.
Single careers girls who loved their cats would occasionally start keeping an eye on themselves, and old movies make references.
I've always thought it was those people most of the Republicans are thinking of with crazy cat lady, but ten years of having many women like that go after people with children and more traditionally masculine men raise a lot of tempers. Looking at the life of JD Vance, I'm betting he and some of the others have had a triple helpings.
Well said, Sarah! There's a great quote from the book "Lookaway, Lookaway" about all of southern church society falling apart if not for the underpinning of spinsters.
I’ve shuddered too at some of the gross misogynistic memes going around about Harris. I don’t even particularly like her but I’m on her side in the face of that kind of thing.
Add on the cat lady rhetoric and if feels like they don’t want women’s votes (the “repeal the 19th” bozos on the train are another issue)
Good one, Lisa! I'm a divorced cat lady and I'm fat too! But President Trump and JD Vance are absolutely who I am voting for!! They represent everyone, not just families. Not just any group. Being a cat lady just is. It isn't what I planned for but it's where I am.
Thanks for reading! I wanted to be clear that I will absolutely vote for Trump/Vance, just a "gentle reminder" to those doubling-down on the rhetoric without having compassion.
Great post, Lisa.
Thanks, Jenna! Not as high-brow as some of the other conversations, but I did my part ;)
I like to think that my contribution is the low, low brow to elevate the greater conversation. You are definitely in the upper-echelon. You're being modest!
I have been feeling a bit obliged to send out some quick notes about this. "Crazy Cat Lady" is actually a much older negative stereotype that didn't include Julia, or women like her. Crazy Cat Lady is one I first ran into in Agatha Christie, where she drove most of her neighborhood crazy, although the mothers worked hard to make their children respect her and her wishes. (It didn't go well, and Poirot didn't like her.)
Crazy cat ladies are comfortably well off, deliberately had no real social contacts, and were so focused on their usually large groups of cats to the point that they were willing to sue or abuse neighbors if they worried the cats were in any way bothered.
They also had very limited, shallow, impractical views of the world, from the conviction that their darling cats would never leave their yard or scratch a child/pet/or other outside their yard....
To political situations.
Single careers girls who loved their cats would occasionally start keeping an eye on themselves, and old movies make references.
I've always thought it was those people most of the Republicans are thinking of with crazy cat lady, but ten years of having many women like that go after people with children and more traditionally masculine men raise a lot of tempers. Looking at the life of JD Vance, I'm betting he and some of the others have had a triple helpings.
Well said, Sarah! There's a great quote from the book "Lookaway, Lookaway" about all of southern church society falling apart if not for the underpinning of spinsters.
That's the way to focus on the positive! We need more of that. Thank you, Lisa.
Yes to all of this.
I’ve shuddered too at some of the gross misogynistic memes going around about Harris. I don’t even particularly like her but I’m on her side in the face of that kind of thing.
Add on the cat lady rhetoric and if feels like they don’t want women’s votes (the “repeal the 19th” bozos on the train are another issue)
I confess that I've used the "Repeal the 19th" often as a joke 😆
Good one, Lisa! I'm a divorced cat lady and I'm fat too! But President Trump and JD Vance are absolutely who I am voting for!! They represent everyone, not just families. Not just any group. Being a cat lady just is. It isn't what I planned for but it's where I am.
Thanks for reading! I wanted to be clear that I will absolutely vote for Trump/Vance, just a "gentle reminder" to those doubling-down on the rhetoric without having compassion.
I agree completely with this analysis.
Thanks for reading, as always!