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Quote:Five months ago, in the wake of a breakup, I adopted a 6-week-old stray kitten. I named him Cat Stevens, bought him a cat tepee and began posting pictures of him on Instagram. The move alarmed some friends, who reflexively feared I was resigning myself, at 26, to a life of loneliness.

But I had some glamorous company. On an episode of HBO’s “Girls” this season, an also newly single Marnie, played by Allison Williams, calls Hannah with some news: She got a kitten. The pop star Taylor Swift tweeted in January, “It is a daily struggle for me to not buy more cats.” Days later Ms. Swift was photographed wearing a T-shirt that read, “The Great Catsby.”

Fails with a man, adopts a cat to fill the void, uses said cat as an excuse for more social media whoring.



Read more in the Beta Times...

Post: #2

The cat in question: http://instagram.com/p/gtM2egpc3d/

43 likes for this cat pic: http://instagram.com/p/ho3A-NJcyO/

25 likes for pic of her socks: http://instagram.com/p/jpwcq2pc1q/

23 likes for pic of her feet with two apple products in the background: http://instagram.com/p/kkR0y5Jc4O/

48 likes having an intimate moment with her cat: http://instagram.com/p/kZp0pOJc7A/

Picture of her holding something she will never have herself: http://instagram.com/p/l5y7qapc-p/

God help her.

Post: #3

Those are actually very high quality cat pictures. Deserving of a place in the ancient Caturday archives.

Post: #4

Jeesus it goes to a whole nother level, O.P. didn't mention that he quoted from a NYT article.

Quote:Stephanie Butnick is an associate editor at Tablet Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Cat Stevens.

Tablet Magazine - A New Read on Jewish Life...Jewish News and Politics, Jewish Arts and ...

Not surprised that a Jewish girl has the 'where are all the good men' syndrome.

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Jewish girl .. not surprised in the least bit. I would have been if it wasn't

Maybe you guys should do a cat-lady awareness/prevention week at ROK

Post: #6

(03-29-2014 11:14 AM)Grit Wrote:  Jeesus it goes to a whole nother level, O.P. didn't mention that he quoted from a NYT article.

The link is in the bottom of my post.

Post: #7

Cats are OK. They shit in a box if you train them.

Post: #8

(03-29-2014 11:55 AM)Sp5 Wrote:  Cats are OK. They shit in a box if you train them.

Post: #9

A woman bragging about her cats is like a guy bragging about how much he jerks off to porn. They're both things lonely people might indulge in, but nothing to be proud of.

The goal is to step up to better things in life, but if you're just getting affirmation on the neurotic things you do, that won't happen. Hence, women are their own worst enemy with all their idiotic validation via "likes" on social media making them proud of what they should not be proud of.

Makes me want to buy into a Korean restaurant out of spite.

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The rule of thumb is one cat for every seven years of celibacy.

She's on her way.

Post: #12

The only Cat I would own is a Bobcat since the larger breeds are too dangerous

Post: #13

I like cats, but I don't understand female obsession with them. Same goes for dogs. They seem like stand in children.

Post: #14

I personally love this obsession with cats that emotionally damaged and mentally unstable chick have. I mean, the chick looks pretty cute and if I met this broad somewhere I'd likely be DTF. Once I got back to her apartment and saw she owned a cat though, I'd know right away to go to Red Alert.

She could save a lot of money that's being wasted on cat food and kitty litter by ditching the fur ball and instead getting a tattoo of CRAZY BITCH on her forehead. They both say the same thing.

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(03-29-2014 04:32 PM)runsonmagic Wrote:  The rule of thumb is one cat for every seven years of celibacy.

She's on her way.

Fuck - I've got 3 cats. Looks like I've got a loooong dry spell ahead of me.

Post: #16

With that amount of likes , except more pics with her cat . In the future http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130...t-lady.gif

Post: #17

Cats epitomise what women truly want in a man:

Aloof, does whatever the fuck it wants

Alpha, if it sees a female cat it likes it fucks it... rough (apparently male cats have a barb on their cock they rake inside the female cat's vagina to increase chance of impregnating her), if it seems a male cat inside its territory it fights. It will hunt given the opportunity

It can be trained to crap/piss in a litter box, but that's about it

It's affectionate, but only on its own terms

Rarely shows emotion, predatory, dangerous

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caracal that's a very interesting observation

Post: #19

My mother's cat is alpha as fuck. He contracted Feline Immunovirus (Cat HIV) 7 years ago after beating the shit out of two other cats in her neighborhood. He was declawed, but still routinely climbs trees, hunts, and brings both baby and adult animals to her doorstep. Usually they are stunned or playing possum, leading me to suspect that the cat pummels them into a stupor just because he can. He is borderline feral, and comes and goes outside as he pleases. Their black lab doesn't mess with him, and has himself killed rabbits and other cat-sized animals before. Sleeps all damn day, and I'm pretty sure he is still out gaming girl cats at night.

The only way he would be more alpha...is if he were a dog.

Post: #20

(03-29-2014 09:32 PM)caracal Wrote:  Cats epitomise what women truly want in a man:

Aloof, does whatever the fuck it wants

Alpha, if it sees a female cat it likes it fucks it... rough (apparently male cats have a barb on their cock they rake inside the female cat's vagina to increase chance of impregnating her), if it seems a male cat inside its territory it fights. It will hunt given the opportunity

It can be trained to crap/piss in a litter box, but that's about it

It's affectionate, but only on its own terms

Rarely shows emotion, predatory, dangerous

Yes. Cats are cute and cuddly but, at the same time, just about natures' most vicious, uncompromising killing machines. Like devilishly handsome sociopaths. Women's affinity for them would seem to support the intense attractiveness of the dark triad idea.

Post: #21

Shiiit, one of my ex girl collegue acts like this too. She is 29, she was cute as hell around 4-5 years ago (around 8) starting to hit the wall hard due to lot of party and drinks. Now she broke upo with her long time boyfriend, has a cat, and makes pictures all the time.

Sad, sad ending. I know she wants to have a baby and family very much, but she is just too far gone at this point.

Post: #22

There's a trend going around with the 25-40 year old women of the midwest of adopting 'special needs' cats...ie cats with 3 legs, or blind cats

Anyone else run into this?

Post: #23

(03-30-2014 10:50 AM)chambs88 Wrote:  There's a trend going around with the 25-40 year old women of the midwest of adopting 'special needs' cats...ie cats with 3 legs, or blind cats

Anyone else run into this?

Yes, I have on Facebook. I think social media and the need to do "moral preening" is causing trends like this to become more popular.

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(03-30-2014 10:56 AM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  Yes, I have on Facebook. I think social media and the need to do "moral preening" is causing trends like this to become more popular.

The misfits deserve each other.

Cats are almost a norm now, but 'tard cats are the new red flag

Post: #25

(03-29-2014 11:15 AM)soup Wrote:  Jewish girl .. not surprised in the least bit. I would have been if it wasn't

Maybe you guys should do a cat-lady awareness/prevention week at ROK

Mostly only true of the bourgeois Jews in the diaspora. Speak to Israeli chicks, or more down to earth Jewish girls in the diaspora, and you'll get a completely different picture. No silly cat obsessions there.

Maybe Israel should conscript Jewish girls in the diaspora into their army for two years. Obviously they don't have the legal right, but since they hold themselves out to be the Jewish State, and accept all Jews from abroad as citizens should they wish to be, it's not really unreasonable. Anyway, being taken away from their indulged life and placed into a country and institution where they are not at all indulged would quickly put paid to any cat silliness.