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Cat Ladies And Their Enemies

Tell voters you hate them often enough, and they'll believe you

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Ben Domenech
Feb 16, 2023
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Over the past few years, a rising trend among male conservatives has been the constant denunciation of “cat ladies” as a generalized epithet used for childless single women. Politicians and media figures alike have engaged in this messaging. At its best, it comes across as bad schtick comedy — at its worst, some obnoxious conservative men come across as

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