The lonely cat lady insult and threat

In this post I will be talking about the political and social sides of these comments which have taken off recently. I will be talking about the political side of it first because it is the most recent and the source of debates. I figured that as a childless person I would be able to speak to this in a real way. It seems like people are scared of childless cat ladies and I don't know why.

Recently JD Vance made comments that single women have been hearing for a while now. In case you didn't see the coverage JD Vance said the country is the country is effectively run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies” who are “miserable at their own lives and the choices they’ve made.” He made these comments after mentioned at least 3 politicians. He mentioned Vice President Kamala Harris, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. For the record Pete Buttigieg is a married gay man who has kids. Kamala Harris is a married woman with at least 2 stepchildren. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an engaged woman who may one day want children.

JD also said that the votes of people without kids shouldn't have as much weight as those with kids. His reason was they don't have stake in the country's future. What about childless teachers? What about childless aunts or uncles?

I have heard that he was trying to say that he thinks that people without kids should be making policies on behalf of people with kids and families. With that logic should he as a man be making laws on behalf of women? No matter who is making the laws have advisors and staff who help them make those laws. People without kids can make laws that are in the best interest for families and singles. Whether or not you have kids shouldn't determine how effectively you do your job.

The argument of whether or not childless people can do certain jobs that have nothing to do with kids is just wild. It makes us feel uncapable and less than. If I brought up the fact that maybe a married man with kids shouldn't be making laws on my behalf, I would be called ridiculous. It's an unfair, unkind and ridiculous double standard.

There are people in certain positions that make sure the laws will work for all. That's why we have congress, senate, mayors, the supreme court and advisors/staff. Running the country and making the laws is not a one-person job.

A lot of childless people know the basics. We know that families with kids are struggling. We know that school shootings should not happen, and we need a solution. We know the problems facing the nation and families we do want to help.

JD also said that he didn't think people without kids had a stake in this country. I live here so there for I have stake in this country. I have kids in my family so there for I have stake in its future. I know I'm not the only one who can say that.

Before we move on to the social side of what was said I want to say that on a social and political side certain people make comments like this to put down women. There has been a war on women and femineity for a while which I will be making a post about later. You never hear them put down just childless cat men, they have to lump them with the women.

Now on to the social aspect of this on dating and social media apps they use the childless, unmarried cat ladies as an insult and talking point. On the social media posts and podcasts they talk about how the cat ladies are miserable (a talking point now said by JD) and all these other insulting things. The talking points are always the same as to how we're sad, lonely and miserable. How we're no value to society. I have a value. I'm not sad lonely or miserable.

On dating apps when I tell a guy no I will get response of "well you're going to end up alone with just cats". My response is usually well I rather be alone with cats than to be in a loveless miserable marriage.

We need to stop put a person's value on whether or not they have kids or a family. Some people don't want that, and others can't have kids. It is not fair to tie the value of a human on whether or not they have family. It is weird, insulting and could set society back.

I say it could set society back because if we teach society that our value should be tied to our marital status and whether or not we have kids. It's not our value is tied to who we are. We as childless people also care about the country's future.

Words hurt feelings so be aware of what you say. Also what you think is a fate worse than death really isn't.