# Hey, I'm a cat lady, you know? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 26, 2024, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807 "2024-07-26T04:25:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/81 "2024-07-27T20:39:22Z")
I could see a white preprinted cat tee with bold red, scratchy looking letters scrawled on there “Yes, I’m a cat lady and Imma vote, move over!!!” This is the only time in my life I wish I was Republican. I’d have a shirt: “Republican Cat Lady” The Lil’wrekker is looking into ordering us some shirts: “We let our cats and kids vote, you’re in trouble now” ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/82 "2024-07-27T20:44:44Z")
But would (person in question) always land on (person in question)'s feet? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/83 "2024-07-27T20:50:16Z")
His tiny feet? His fat ass? ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/84 "2024-07-27T21:17:28Z")
I read it as Vance thinks each adult vote should be multiplied by the number of children a person has. I assume preference goes to the father. I wouldn’t be shocked if he thinks husbands shouod control that, too. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/85 "2024-07-27T21:24:23Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > He had three. I knew he had kids, but wasn’t sure how old they were (specifically, whether they were old enough to express opinions of their own when he said that). Looks like the oldest would have been four, so … maybe? ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/86 "2024-07-27T22:00:00Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > I assume preference goes to the father. I wouldn’t be shocked if he thinks husbands shouod control that, too. I’m sure, in his world, the father would vote for the household. Then eventually only married fathers could vote and someday only married fathers who own property. The property would count as another vote since you can’t be invested in the future if you don’t own a house(s). It would make elections so much easier to win run with fewer voters and simple rules. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/87 "2024-07-27T22:27:11Z")
Well, hey, why not? That goes right back to the Founders’ way of doing it! ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/88 "2024-07-27T23:31:34Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > I read it as Vance thinks each adult vote should be multiplied by the number of children a person has. I assume preference goes to the father. I wouldn’t be shocked if he thinks husbands shouod control that, too. Yeah, I read a bit more about it and that multiplier effect appears to be the idea; though I think the suggestion was that the child votes should be divided between the (presumably heterosexual) parents. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/89 "2024-07-27T23:33:50Z")
Stands to reason. The Republican idiots want wimmens back in the kitchen, well groomed wearing sexy high heels with our cute aprons on. Basting the roast. While our 6 children are behaved, doing their homework, with out groaning. Of course we’re preggers but you can’t tell, we still have a 22in waist. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/90 "2024-07-27T23:35:23Z")
Don’t forget the pearl necklace. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/91 "2024-07-27T23:36:45Z")
And the new gingham curtains we whipped up that morning. Right before breastfeeding the baby. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/92 "2024-07-27T23:38:14Z")
Well, yeh, what else is that shiny Singer sewing machine for, if not for making all the curtains and the children’s clothes in our copious spare time? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/93 "2024-07-27T23:40:33Z")
Someone forgot to tell that baby in oven breastfeeding was supposed to prevent another pregnancy. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/94 "2024-07-27T23:46:57Z")
No! Not a good God-fearing infant! That’s no way to fulfill the dictates of the [Quiverful movement!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/95 "2024-07-28T01:19:14Z")
Aaaccckkk. Visions of Duggers! Noooooo! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/96 "2024-07-28T01:36:40Z")
> My armchair psychoanalysis of Vance is that he’s one of these types who fancies himself an “alpha male” but in fact feels deeply threatened by women who assert themselves, and that he additionally resents women because he “had” to get married and have kids when he could be (in his own estimation at least) living like Hugh Hefner, and so wants to punish people who are “cheating” at life by not subjecting themselves to a loveless partnership out of social obligation. IO2lW, he’s the human equivalent of one of those shirts with a bride and groom with a ball and chain on the groom’s ankle and the caption “GAME OVER”. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/97 "2024-07-28T14:33:25Z")
My wife and I live right on the border of liberal and conservative county’s. We work for the gov in the liberal county, but vote in the conservative county (we live about 1/4 mile more in the conservative county) We don’t have kids, but we always vote for more money for education and anything that is good for children. But the conservatives always shoot the taxes down. This is why you have teachers that can’t make ends meet. Drives me nuts. I’m. Trying. To. Help. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/98 "2024-07-29T23:37:01Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Don’t forget the pearl necklace. Ewwww… ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/99 "2024-07-30T00:17:24Z")
Oh, maaannnn, I can’t have kids anymore as I’m 65 and a 22 inch waist lurks somewhere in the mists of ancient time. Does this mean there will be a concentration camp for me and my cohort? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807/100 "2024-07-30T00:24:11Z")
A big one. It is multi-tiered, covered in carpeting, with little fuzzy balls hanging from strings here and there. More of a distraction camp than a concentration camp, really. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-im-a-cat-lady-you-know/1004807.md?page=6)