So two of the females in my household have decided, sadly, that they want to get in on this whole Women Against Feminism thing. Yes, that’s right: they want to publicly declare their opposition to feminism.
Against my better judgment, I agreed to take pictures of them with signs spelling out their objections. None of their arguments make much sense to me, but, hey, they’re entitled to make their case on the internet if that’s what they want.
There’s just one little complication: the two antifeminist females in my household are not, you know, human females. They’re cats. Not being, strictly speaking, women, they can’t really post their pics to the Women Against Feminism blog.
So in the interest of free speech and fair play, I’ve set up a Tumblr blog where my cats, and other cats who share their beliefs, can take their stand against feminism – no matter how ridiculous their arguments are.
I present to you: Confused Cats Against Feminism.
You can see the first post there now, featuring my own adorably furry traitors to their gender.
I urge you to submit pictures of your own antifeminist cats, with their own little signs.
You can submit pics on the Confused Cats Against Feminism site, post pics in the comments below, or you can email them to me here at futrelle at manboobz.com.
There’s just one rule: your cats must be genuinely confused about why they oppose feminism, and generally unclear about what feminism is.
And the ideas expressed on their signs must be their own. In other words, I don’t want any Men’s Rights Activists paying cats on Fiverr to hold their signs for them. That shit won’t fly in this litterbox!
All that said, blatant photoshopping is perfectly fine. This is the internet, after all.
And if your animal friend is something other than a cat, that’s fine too. As long as it’s possible that they might think that they’re a cat.
Also, feel free to put the word “Poland” or the Polish flag on your pictures. A lot of the women on the Women Against Feminism blog do that, for some reason.
Oooh, yes! Don’t forget to make some
faketotally real threats to yourself while you’re at it.And a commemorative coin. Mustn’t forget the commemorative coin.
er…we did have to ask for a contribution for public liabilty insurance as we had to hire the park from the council (against whom we are protesting). We’ve coughed up $400 but we are sticking buckets out on the day for donations. We’ve nominated a local charity in case we raise extra on the day. Funnily enough, it’s all advertised/documented on our page and we’ll make sure that we show people exactly where the money went.
No threats so far just the grind of petty bureaucracy.
Here are mine.
Ella (the little brown and white doggy in the background) didn’t want to participate.
http://imgur.com/1r6ece8
http://imgur.com/4a8q5JY
@sparky
My dog agrees with your dog and would like to subscribe to their newsletter.
sparky, Ella is a wise pup! Katie agrees about the bacon gap.
@BigMomma, Let me know if you want me to make fake threats against you because that leads to BIG MONEY. (Just kidding, I know ethics and fake threats don’t really mix.)
Sparky’s black dog is adorable. And brown and white dog is also adorable. There are so many adorable animals.
We could also try to get someone from Vice to attend, but I’m pretty sure they only bother to show up when they sense prime mockery material in the offing.
Dracarys is licking bacon grease off my plate. I didn’t tell her that it was turkey bacon. Is it miscatry? Am I perpetuating the bacon gap?
there’s going to be free cupcakes and helium balloons for all?
Is my cat not misandering correctly? She has no interest at all in people food, and has never attempted to steal anything off my plate.
Does she stick her arse in your face, with her tail up?
Dammit, copied and pasted the wrong link! (Feel free to delete the previous comment, David – and I’ve submitted this to the Tumblr as well)
https://twitter.com/Xanthe_Cat/status/492540137473974273
Kitty is all “I kill you, human with camera”.
Depends on the threats.
“If you hold this meeting I will turn up UNINVITED and wash the dishes!”
This cat is misandering properly.
Xanthe, love it! 😀
What about male cats? My mother can’t seem to refer to our ginger tom as anything but a “she” so does he count? Or maybe Mum knows something about his gender identity I don’t.
Actually, serious question, have there ever been transgender animals?
Look at all these cats! Thanks, everyone! Once I get through all these, plus email submissions and submissions on tumblr, I think I’ll have roughly 30 in the queue!
I’ll put up more tomorrow. But I’m going to space out when they go up, so it might take a few days for yours to go up.
Glad to hear that I wasn’t the only one who had trouble getting their cats to model for them. My cats are always a little squirrely about getting pics taken, but they were really suspicious when I kept setting down sheets of paper next to them with stuff written on them in smelly marker (which in the end i had to photoshop over because they weren’t very readable). I took maybe 20 shots of them; my black cat (Pantz) ran away almost every time I tried to take a pic of her. Even catnip didn’t lure her out. The pic I used was more or less the only usable one of her.
male cats are fine!
I cheated by photoshopping writing onto an old pic of Mads. She was practising felinism by sitting on a notebook I needed for something else.
It’s weird tons of people I know seem terminally incapable of not calling all cats she.
I have a very pretty boy who always gets called she by all the vet staff. His name is Maori, it’s a placename that comes from a verb, and Maori isn’t a gendered language. Whenever they say she, I say he, and then immediately they go back to she. I know the cat doesn’t care, obviously his features clearly define him as female in people’s minds. He gets told he’s my beautiful boy, all the cats get told they’re beautiful. Repeatedly. The thing that makes me sad is that I’m sure we treat our cats better than some people treat their significant others and children. 🙁
It’s Darrow that likes to stick his butt right in my face. It’s one of his favorite tactics for waking me up to feed him. Is he still misandering since he’s a he? Dracarys doesn’t put her butt in my face too often.
I don’t think we’ll ever know if cats have a gender identity at all. So trans cats? Probably not but who knows? However, there are times that male cats have to get their penis cut off. Male cats get UTIs more often because they have more narrow urethrae than females do. My friend’s cat got a really severe UTI that nearly killed him and the vet said they would have to basically give him a sex change operation if it happened again. Luckily it didn’t. Misandry averted!
It’s weird tons of people I know seem terminally incapable of not calling all cats she.
I wonder if it’s that old, strong association of cats with women?
Though it makes a change from calling all animals he. Or worse, it. I hate that, especially when it’s a famous animal, like a racehorse, whose sex is known. No, ABC, Black Caviar is not an it, she’s a she!
Speaking of misandry and tomcats puts me in mind of Catwatching, by Desmond Morris (he of The Naked Ape). He seriously suggested that it was cruel and evil to castrate toms, and that they should have vasectomies, so they could mate like Real Natural He-
MenCats. Just how this was supposed to benefit the queens wasn’t said. Leave them unspayed so the toms could get their jollies? Yeah, dude, you going to adopt the kittens they have when they encounter a tom who hasn’t had his little snip? And are you perfectly happy for queens to be coming into heat all the time just so you’re not uncomfortable thinking about some other male animal being neutered?The tumblr’s looking great, David!