Dating its complicated cat lady

Animation/ Dating Its Complicated: Cat Person (FUNNY)!

The source material for Cat Person , Kristen Roupenian 's short story of the same name, about the brief and hideously awkward relationship between a college sophomore and an older man, took the world by storm in At the time, Roupenian was a largely unknown writer, enjoying her first time being published in The New Yorker. To say her story went viral is true, but doesn't really capture what happened. Short stories rarely go explosively viral in that way. But "Cat Person" blew up because it took on a topic that was, especially at the time, the subject of much fascination and debate — the constant specter of violence that hovers over dating, and that in particular haunts women who date men — with revealing precision. Readers were upfront in their appreciation of the story's realism. But did Cat Person accomplish this because it was based on a true story? When Margot, a college sophomore goes on a date with the older Robert, she finds that IRL Robert doesn't live up to the Robert she has been flirting with over texts.

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Margot met Robert on a Wednesday night toward the end of her fall semester. She was working behind the concession stand at the artsy movie theatre downtown when he came in and bought a large popcorn and a box of Red Vines. He was tall, which she liked, and she could see the edge of a tattoo peeking out from beneath the rolled-up sleeve of his shirt. But he was on the heavy side, his beard was a little too long, and his shoulders slumped forward slightly, as though he were protecting something. Robert did not pick up on her flirtation. Or, if he did, he showed it only by stepping back, as though to make her lean toward him, try a little harder. But the next week he came into the movie theatre again, and bought another box of Red Vines.

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Both literally and figuratively, I am a mildly obsessive cat lady. In the literal sense, I'm one of those people with a love for cats that borders on obsession. A middle school bully once gossiped about me for wearing clothes with cats on them. In my Facebook profile picture, there are whiskers painted on my face, and in the picture that I set as my profile before that, I'm posing with my family cat. I don't have my own cats, but the ones I grew up with greet me every time I visit home and—real talk? Figuratively, I pretty much fit the cat-lady bill.

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Dating: It's Complicated - Cat Person 2

Diving way back into history, ancient Egypt holds some of the earliest and most fascinating chapters of the cat-human saga. Ancient Egyptian women, in particular, shared a special connection with these revered creatures. Cats were seen as protectors, not just of the home from pests but also guarding against evil spirits. They were closely linked to the Egyptian goddess Bastet , who represented home, femininity, and childbirth.

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