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Pussy Riot: Why Men Hate Cats *TEASER*

Binchtopia

Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb

Society & Culture

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The ladies welcome their new feline bestie and discuss the historical hatred of cats and its ties to sexism. Related and unrelated digressions include the Salem Witch Trials, shtetl life, anti-vaxxers, "cheugys" and Tiktok fatfishing. Full episode is available on patreon.com/binchtopia

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0:00.0

Hi, Benches. We hope you're doing lovely as usual. A little update on our half is that we recently welcomed a new

0:07.7

feline, Bestie, and that got us thinking about why men hate cats and why cat hatred is so prevalent.

0:15.5

And so we decided to look up some historical roots of kitty prejudice and how that ties into sexism.

0:23.2

It was really interesting to research and interesting to talk about, and the full episode will be up on our Patreon,

0:29.4

Patreon.com slash Benchtopia, where for only $5 a month, you get access to, I think, seven now bonus episodes,

0:36.6

reading lists, live streams, all that good stuff. Um, yeah, so if you want to support us and get more content,

0:43.4

there you go. In the meantime, enjoy the teaser. Love you.

0:47.2

Well, Julia, let me paint a hypothetical for you. Love. I want you to imagine a man.

0:54.2

Oh, right. We're there. You got to be more specific. We're smelling the Nike socks. We're really, we're in there.

1:02.2

Why did you say that? Okay, but imagine that you are a man, right? And I've ingested all the cultural

1:07.4

scripts and things that you need to learn as a man. Now, I'm going to paint a picture of two different

1:11.9

partners for you. Period. And you tell me which one you would be more likely to choose as a man.

1:15.8

As a straight man. Correct. Okay. The first partner, you come home and the partner is

1:21.8

elated to see you. They're so happy. They shower you in love and affection. If you're watching

1:27.9

something on TV, they want to watch exactly what you're watching. They want to sit right next to you

1:31.9

and they want to be there. Um, every time you like eat a meal with them, they're so fucking happy

1:36.9

to eat the meal. Like, are overjoyed. And like, they follow you everywhere. But if you were to,

1:44.3

you know, close your space off, they would be understanding and respectful. They want to go wherever

1:48.6

you're going. They want to do whatever you're doing. They think the way to ask anything of you.

1:53.5

They do not ask anything of you. They think that the light shines out of your

1:56.7

ass. Right? That's one partner. Now, think of another partner. This partner does not, it needs to

2:04.6

warm up to you. Right? It doesn't out of the gate love you. And you need to sort of build trust

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