# Why do some people (especially, it seems, men) hate cats? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 30, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-especially-it-seems-men-hate-cats/237413 "2004-03-30T22:31:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-especially-it-seems-men-hate-cats/237413/221 "2014-09-27T23:54:38Z")
> [@catsareterrible](#): > > To keep you all from crying and the cat from dying,I have decided not to harm him at all. I threw him out in the woods today. Perhaps he’ll get eaten by something. > > I take no pleasure in harming defenseless animals, I simply refuse to allow the ignorant fuckers to destroy my home. There is certainly ignorance going on in your house. The cat now fending for itself in the woods hasn’t lessened that one iota. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-especially-it-seems-men-hate-cats/237413/222 "2014-09-28T15:59:41Z")
> [@catsareterrible](#): > > You hit the nail on the motherfucking head. It’s their god damned arrogant disrespectful fucking teenager attitude that makes me want to crush their heads in. > \. I would piss on your clothes too, if you had that attitude toward me. Also, if I were your wife, I’d piss on your clothes, shit in your shoes, then take both pets and leave. Then get a SOB lawyer and a restraining order. You sound violent and unable to handle a grown-up relationship with a human, much less anything that depends on you. Big, strong man, going after a 7-pound cat. Yeah. You’re so badass. Please don’t reproduce. Either you’re a sociopath or a troll. It sounds better for you to assume you’re some weird kind of troll. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-especially-it-seems-men-hate-cats/237413/223 "2014-09-28T16:50:40Z")
Hoping this thread gets moved to the Pit, because I’d really like to tell **catsareterrible** exactly what I think of him and his disgusting comments. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-especially-it-seems-men-hate-cats/237413/224 "2014-09-28T20:08:10Z")
I’m sure **catsareterrible** must’ve broken at least one or two board rules by now. If nothing else, don’t we have a rule about posting on only one subject? And can’t we close this thread, which has turned from a discussion on why some people dislike cats into a disturbing, violence-laden pile of shit? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-especially-it-seems-men-hate-cats/237413/225 "2014-09-28T20:19:35Z")
> [@vontsira](#): > > As a male cat-preferrer: I reckon it nice of old Rudyard to acknowledge, and accept, the perceived minority of men (“proper” or otherwise), who like cats. Two words:[Ernest Hemingway.](http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1433982/thumbs/h-HEMINGWAY-CAT-768x768.jpg?6) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-especially-it-seems-men-hate-cats/237413/226 "2014-09-29T03:26:11Z")
I hate cats. Always setting us up the bomb and making all our base are belong to them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-especially-it-seems-men-hate-cats/237413.md?page=11)