Revenge of the childless cat ladies
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. Revenge of the Childless Cat Ladies. |
| 0:27.5 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination not a care in the world as you simply lean back and before you know it you're there. This is |
| 0:38.1 | how travel should feel and on our trains it does. Avanti West Coast, |
| 0:44.0 | feel good travel. |
| 0:46.0 | There's someone I want you to meet. This is Rowley. Say hello Rowley. |
| 0:58.0 | He's my 18 month old Persian cat, a bundle of fluff with a tiny brain and yellow eyes that look as if he's wearing eyeliner. |
| 1:09.0 | Yes, I'm a cat lady. I said it I might have hesitated to out myself like this in public not so long ago |
| 1:19.4 | but recently something changed. |
| 1:23.6 | I started to see being a childless cat lady, not as a source of shame, but as a badge of honor. |
| 1:31.2 | And I'm not the only one. |
| 1:33.5 | Taylor Swift on Instagram endorsed the Harris Wall's ticket. |
| 1:38.5 | Interestingly, she signs it with Love and Hope, Taylor Swift, childless, cat lady. |
| 1:45.0 | But not everyone agrees that Taylor and I should be so proud. |
| 1:50.0 | We're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, |
| 1:55.2 | by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made. |
| 1:59.7 | I know, Rowleyley out wages |
| 2:10.0 | That was JD Vance Donald Trump's running mate three years ago in an interview that recently resurfaced But rather than gaining him votes, Vance faced a backlash as cat ladies everywhere got their claws into him. |
| 2:18.0 | The cat ladies have gone feral. This Sunday we are coming together to have a Zoom meeting and hear more about how we can get involved in this election, especially as we stand up to the misogynistic rhetoric we keep hearing about cat ladies. |
| 2:37.0 | From the Guardian I'm Helen Pitt. |
| 2:39.0 | Today in focus. |
| 2:41.0 | The history of the Childless Cat lady, and why JD Vance got it so, so wrong. |
| 2:47.0 | Oh Helen, your cat so L I've got somebody I want I want you to meet this is |
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