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In a surprising recent development, the term “cat lady” has become politically relevant for the first time in years. Despite previously/solely existing in my mind as a terroristic stock character from 30 Rock and The Simpsons, JD Vance’s dismissal of “childless cat ladies” has brought the term’s scornful original meaning back to the fore, weighing unmarried women for all of their wretched single-ness and perversely misplaced maternal energy. Even though Vance’s contempt feels like a throwback, it is genuinely interesting to see how the hard-edge of his disapproval runs up against a generation of women who’ve loosely adopted the term with varying degrees of irony. There are no doubt landfills brimming with rotting, kitten-embossed merch littered across the country, and while they don’t (in themselves) prove his point, they do serve as an unmistakable reminder that millennials (and their humor) have very much aged.
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Pinky’s Where?
Derosia•Sep 06, 2024 — Oct 19, 2024
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In a surprising recent development, the term “cat lady” has become politically relevant for the first time in years. Despite previously/solely existing in my mind as a terroristic stock character from 30 Rock and The Simpsons, JD Vance’s dismissal of “childless cat ladies” has brought the term’s scornful original meaning back to the fore, weighing unmarried women for all of their wretched single-ness and perversely misplaced maternal energy. Even though Vance’s contempt feels like a throwback, it is genuinely interesting to see how the hard-edge of his disapproval runs up against a generation of women who’ve loosely adopted the term with varying degrees of irony. There are no doubt landfills brimming with rotting, kitten-embossed merch littered across the country, and while they don’t (in themselves) prove his point, they do serve as an unmistakable reminder that millennials (and their humor) have very much aged.
This is a truth that’s not lost on Whitney Claflin. The artist...More
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