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Loidman and Yorticia accidental joint custody AU lol

I don’t think we as a society talk nearly enough about how intricately connected cats and women are. cats are associated with women so heavily, not just in English but in other languages as well. the stereotype of the ‘crazy cat lady’, the fact words to refer to cats are often also used to refer to female genitalia, ‘cat fight’, ‘catty’, etc.

Cats have suffered alongside women, too, which is not something I have seen brought up. Cats were targeted during the Witch Hunts as well, and suffered similar fates as the women they hunted. During this time, cats were nearly driven to extinction, and the mice and rat population go out of control— which is believed to have heavily contributed if not outright caused one of the most famous plagues.

To this day, I think we need to analyze if it’s truly a coincidence that cats are often portrayed as mean or uncaring because they do not behave the same way as dogs— “man’s best friend”— that their boundaries are violated for fun and then people criticize the cat for reacting, for self-defense. They will mutilate a cat so it cannot defend itself, and then abandon it when it is understandably upset, when it can no longer feel safe.

If you look at the statistics, more cats enter animal shelters than dogs, and tend to stay for longer. Personally, my local humane societies seem to have almost exclusively cats. In part, this is because cats are more effective at reproducing than dogs, and there are very little if any resources dedicated to to TNR. This is also because people will not spay/neuter their cats, and then will abandon the cat and/or just the kittens.

I do not think it is entirely coincidental that cats are so heavily associated with women, and they are villainized for not being dogs. That dogs are called “man’s best friend”, but somehow that does not mean cats are called “women’s best friend”— instead diamonds are, for whatever reason, despite women’s shared history with cats, and shared experience of being villainized for having boundaries. They are made the villain for being cats instead of dogs, they are called uncaring and “assholes” because the way they show love is not identical to the way a dog does.

I feel like there is no way it is entirely coincidental, the way cats are hated and the way they are so heavily associated with women, with females.

And the way it’s so normalized for people to HATE cats to the point of it becoming a personality trait, but it’s unthinkable for someone to say they hate dogs.

There’s a buzzfeed video whose premise is basically “cat haters meet kittens”. As far as I know there is no equivalent “dog haters meet puppies”, because even mild dislike of dogs is an affront.

Men who hate women become political leaders, renowned artists, and celebrities while women who “hate” men are heretics.

It’s interesting how, as the OP says, people often hate cats because of the fact that they assert boundaries and the assertion of boundaries by a woman is often decried as misandry. The cat’s independence and need for space is misunderstood as malicious in the same way a woman’s is.

^^^^

I don’t think we as a society talk nearly enough about how intricately connected cats and women are. cats are associated with women so heavily, not just in English but in other languages as well. the stereotype of the ‘crazy cat lady’, the fact words to refer to cats are often also used to refer to female genitalia, ‘cat fight’, ‘catty’, etc.

Cats have suffered alongside women, too, which is not something I have seen brought up. Cats were targeted during the Witch Hunts as well, and suffered similar fates as the women they hunted. During this time, cats were nearly driven to extinction, and the mice and rat population go out of control— which is believed to have heavily contributed if not outright caused one of the most famous plagues.

To this day, I think we need to analyze if it’s truly a coincidence that cats are often portrayed as mean or uncaring because they do not behave the same way as dogs— “man’s best friend”— that their boundaries are violated for fun and then people criticize the cat for reacting, for self-defense. They will mutilate a cat so it cannot defend itself, and then abandon it when it is understandably upset, when it can no longer feel safe.

If you look at the statistics, more cats enter animal shelters than dogs, and tend to stay for longer. Personally, my local humane societies seem to have almost exclusively cats. In part, this is because cats are more effective at reproducing than dogs, and there are very little if any resources dedicated to to TNR. This is also because people will not spay/neuter their cats, and then will abandon the cat and/or just the kittens.

I do not think it is entirely coincidental that cats are so heavily associated with women, and they are villainized for not being dogs. That dogs are called “man’s best friend”, but somehow that does not mean cats are called “women’s best friend”— instead diamonds are, for whatever reason, despite women’s shared history with cats, and shared experience of being villainized for having boundaries. They are made the villain for being cats instead of dogs, they are called uncaring and “assholes” because the way they show love is not identical to the way a dog does.

I feel like there is no way it is entirely coincidental, the way cats are hated and the way they are so heavily associated with women, with females.

^^^^ THIS! 👆🏽💯‼️ Literally the only reply that makes this dumb-as-shit post worth reblogging.

I CANT STAND posts like this because they get it wrong all the time and they act like cats are just so heavily oppressed over dogs and it leads to Radfems weirdly going:

Cat = Woman. Dog = Man.

and then they treat these innocent ANIMALS according to that dumbass mindset and viciously hate on dogs for no reason as if female dogs don’t exist… and those female dogs get treated WAY worse than male dogs AND all cats combined.

I also hate how they conveniently left out how dogs get treated. They get compared to cats all the time. They’re called all sorts of terrible names in favor of cats. They’re said to be disgusting, too much work, sloppy, nasty, dangerous, dumb, etc…

Cat culture and cat worship is actually crazy online and offline so idk why people are acting like they’re so hated and oppressed when Cat people, and Cat content are beloved everywhere and people are always bragging about how the Egyptians used to worship cats so???

Dogs are literally killed, kidnapped, beaten, starved, forced to fight, and treated AWFULLY by men and women alike (mostly men tho). Dogs are unfairly put down/murdered and given bad rep’s for being dogs and acting like an animal acts. So what are they on?

These people have so much to say about dog people, trying to diagnose them and make up shit about them with some pseudo-analysis bullshit about how they only like dogs because they want someone to control/suck-up to them. They’re always saying dogs are dumb, domesticated, suck-ups and Cats are so much better and won’t put up with your shit but in the same breath they talk about how dogs can turn on you and they’re so vicious and unpredictable and dangerous so which one is it? Are they suck-ups who are weak and spineless because they give unconditional love or are they dangerous wild beasts who can’t be trusted?

Cats are no better than dogs. They stink, they get violent, they can get abused, they can be suck-ups, they’re also disgusting and uncontrollable, they get people sick. They’re not inherently better just because they’re “associated with women”.

Cat people also aren’t that awesome either. They can be cold, rude, callous, and dumb just like the dog people they talk about so much lol.

I think some women on here get so caught up in hating men that they will hate on “man’s best friend” even tho men have proven time and time again that they don’t actually like dogs and many of them will tell you this…

My horribly abusive ex was a cat lover and HATED dogs … what does that say ???

These people need to realize dogs are not men. Female dogs exist and I’m so happy you pointed out the fact that the word/slur “Bitch” exists and it’s meaning literally destroys OP’s entire post lmaooo!

These people need to get a fucking grip and stop searching for reasons to hate dogs like this is actually fucking pathetic. Women are compared to many animals. Not just cats lol. People have used/treated many animals the same way they use/treat women. Someone in the notes literally used their autism as a reason for hating dogs like I can’t imagine being that evil towards innocent animal and then blaming it on autism this site is hell and full of morons. @abdomensect

some of you take the internet too seriously and need to log off for a bit. Why are you seething over this? Touch grass

the scene w dipper trying to protect the rift from ford is on one hand, genuinely unnerving, but on the other hand, the circumstances that led up to it are. so funny. like can you imagine being ford and your nephew thinks you're still working w bill and you're trying to convince him otherwise and then he immediately reveals years worth of your "i love bill" shrine. like wow this looks bad

Drawing a meme from pinterest.

Oh you poor girl </3

genuinely one of the worst things that’s happened to television in the last few years (exacerbated by streaming services) is death of Filler. going from 20 episodes to 8 because “we didn’t really need that episode where the main characters went to the beach right? it had no long lasting effect” but we DID!!! we needed to see how they act without the Big Bad Plot and to establish the dynamics between the characters and lay in the sun (do they forget sunscreen? how do they react to a thieving seagull? do they get buried in the sand or do they do the burying?). the plot isn’t everything. the action doesn’t hit as hard without the quiet moments. give us character development and our little scenes back

i feel like a lot of the people who're saying 'stan would treat him better' are not really understanding a lot of his character. i literally saw someone describe him as 'really sweet' and 'a gentleman' and I'm like. no???? first off I just don't think he would be in a romantic relationship during this time period, he's really traumatized and emotionally damaged at this point but he doesn't really. have a lot of space to really think about his situation or reflect because he has to keep up and stand in as ford while he works to get him back and in general its just. a lot yk. another thing is that he's canonically really terrible with romantic relationships in general. there's something in particular about the thing he had with lazy Susan and the sort of. internalized amatonormativity surrounding that, about how he liked the idea of being in a relationship but. didn’t actually want to. but a lot of his canon relationships aren’t really the best/end well. Of course this doesn’t actually have to mean anything in particular but given his past history with relationships I just. don’t think a romantic relationship especially at this point in time would work out. a lot of people think if he had a relationship with fiddleford it would be healthier than fiddauthor and I’m just like….no??? ok first off Stan is kind of a major dick to fiddleford in canon I’m pretty sure he ran him over with his car multiple times on purpose maybe(correct me if I’m wrong I apologize). I think people also forget that at this point in time fiddleford is entering/beginning a stage in his life where he is just at his absolute worst. he’s literally in his evil cultist era and assuming that he’s unaware that Stan is pretending to be ford I don’t think fiddleford would try to reconnect with him at this point. his goal right now is to protect the town from ford via sotbe and he does NOT trust him at all. I think Stan and fiddleford interactions would be fiddleford watching him thinking he was ford and getting into physical fights maybe but just ending with a confused Stan and fiddleford running off like an angry wounded animal. but like. say they were in a relationship at one point, romantic or non romantic, I don’t think it would end well or go well both of them are incredibly mentally unstable and would not be good for each other at all especially fiddleford and I don’t think he would be trusting of Stan at all and would probably end up using the memory gun on him a lot.

and yes ford and fiddlefords relationship was unhealthy and toxic at points and ford defintley treated him unfairly at points but I feel like people forget a lot of it was because of bills manipulation and his succeeding attempts to isolate ford from fidds because keep in mind he loved and respected him and viewed him as an equal and wanted him to be there !! he was so excited to see him and share his adventures with him and just. A lot of it was not his fault, yk??

Thank you Twitter katara fans for existing

Does anyone else find it really bizarre that it's only Katara who the fandom appears to be invested in permanently scarring. Am I reading too much into that?

It just gives me uncomfortable vibes.

No I agree. It doesn’t even make sense. Those burns seemed to have been surface level, seeing as she only got the sparks flying off of Aang’s bending. It wasn’t like he held fire to her hands for an extended period (like Ozai did to Zuko’s face).

The wounds would’ve healed regardless and it’s unlikely they would’ve left deep or long lasting scars.

So why does the fandom wish more harm upon Katara?

It’s as if she’s collateral damage in their desire to demonize and scapegoat Aang.