# Do women kill kittens? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 6, 2004, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-kill-kittens/267836 "2004-10-06T13:31:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-kill-kittens/267836/41 "2004-10-07T20:29:58Z")
> [@nyctea scandiaca](#): > > Amen! Let me go “_prey_” now! 🙂 heheheh Oh shit, that should have said “_pray_…” Duh. :smack: Note to self: don’t post after having a few drinks. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-kill-kittens/267836/42 "2004-10-07T21:04:06Z")
> [@pokey](#): > > When I was in highschool we called it “doing the dishes.” Due to some long forgotten circumstance, the euphemism “making toast” arose among my circle of friends. And I immediately became the butt of endless jokes because at the time, I was President of my chapter of [Toastmasters International](http://www.toastmasters.org/). ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-kill-kittens/267836/43 "2004-10-07T23:32:55Z")
I heard it as “_splitting_ the kitten” long before the kills-a-kitten thing surfaced on the web. Long before there was a web, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-kill-kittens/267836/44 "2004-10-08T11:03:23Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > A common euphanism for masturbation on places like fark is ‘killing kittens’. This is derived from the quote “Every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten” (featuring a Domo-kun chasing after a scampering kitten). I’ve heard the phrase, but never called it “killing kittens”. What’s wrong with the word masturbation? Also, whatever happened to going blind? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-kill-kittens/267836/45 "2004-10-08T11:48:05Z")
> [@The Asbestos Mango](#): > > Did anyone else have a flashback to that scene in _Pleasantville_ where the tree bursts into flame? So every time Joan Allen masturbates, god kills a tree? This is a very different kind of Human Torch… ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-kill-kittens/267836/46 "2004-10-08T16:06:09Z")
I call my battery operated friend Buzz Lightyear. So it’s not killing kittens it’s going to infinity and beyond. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-kill-kittens/267836/47 "2004-10-09T01:07:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Being male, God’s not going to do anything to discourage women from masturbating. But being male, God also hates cats. So when God was frequently observed watching women masturbate and killing kittens, people assumed there was a casue and effect relationship. This kind of confusion is always happening in organized religion; the entire concept of kosher diet, for example, came about because some people read too much signifigance into one of God’s pizza orders. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-kill-kittens/267836.md?page=2)