I suspect that some people, perhaps Gaetz and Vance, believe that some women are fit only for reproduction and not much more.
JD Vance calls Kamala Harris and AOC “childless cat ladies”
In a 2021 “Tucker Carlson Tonight” interview on Fox News, JD Vance said “the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”
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Janyce C. Katz served as an Assistant Attorney General for nearly 25 years and currently works at General Innovations and Goods, Inc.
Maybe it’s because my last name is Katz that I’m a cat lady.
Or at least I was until Mr. Meow had to spend the rest of his life with my husband’s cousins due to health reasons.
Why do people like Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida or current Senator JD Vance of Ohio, who was recently chosen as the Republican vice presidential candidate, talk nonsense about over-educated cat ladies without children and worry about protecting women’s rights?
Cats are great friends. If you treat them well, they will respect and like you.
Those who like cats appreciate independent beings.
My mother raised female cats
My mother, Ida S. Katz, rescued people and animals – especially cats. She had two daughters who both loved our two childhood cats, Julius Butterball Katz and later Butterball’s best friend Pywacket.
My sister is a lawyer like me and also has a master’s degree. She has always had cats and dogs. One of her children has a daughter, a husband and two cats.
My mother always said her daughters could do whatever they wanted – as long as it was legal.
Vance insulted “childless cat ladies”: JD Vance thinks my voice should count less. He should listen to Jennifer Aniston.
My late mother, my sister, her children and I support a woman’s right to make her own decisions about her reproductive health and to consult her own doctor.
I am thinking of a friend and her husband who have two grown children and were given an expensive, beautiful, sweet cat who was kept in a cage for most of her life and used to breed other expensive cats like her.
Another friend, who is pro-abortion rights and has never had children, rescued a beautiful dog that had been kept in crates for years and used only for breeding.
I suspect that some people, perhaps Gaetz and Vance, believe that some women are fit only for reproduction and not much more.
Women are not God’s image
Not only did laws in the late 19th century ban abortion in all states, but anti-contraception laws and the Comstock Act prohibited the discussion of contraception and abortion, causing many women to become pregnant.
Many women had 18 to 20 pregnancies, of which perhaps 10 or 11 were actually born. Some children survived to adulthood, others did not. And women died early, either during pregnancy or from exhaustion from multiple births and pregnancies.
I thought of the anxious pamphlet published in Cincinnati in the late 19th century by Mr. “ATTILA,” who attempted to derail the women’s suffrage movement. The first page argues that women are “not made in the image of God,” that they have no soul, that they are not part of creation, and – worse – that women are not human beings but merely the playthings of men.
Is this how Gaetz and Vance think women could be treated – locked in their homes and constantly pregnant? I hope not!
People are so much more than the family legacy they leave behind
My mother also had a good education – first as a teacher, then she became a social worker at the age of 51 and later earned her doctorate in psychology from Heed University in Florida.
In between, she worked as a successful real estate agent.
At the age of 69, she founded the Save the Animals Foundation, where she rescued not only cats, dogs and the odd rabbit, but also people.
I can’t tell you how many times she got a call because someone couldn’t feed an animal, and she bought food not only for the animal but for the person as well. For many years she paid for these relief efforts out of her own pocket.
Gaetz and Vance criticize women like my mother, who rescued several cats and animals, and me, who lived in a house with the late Mr. Meow until my wonderful husband joined us.
Do you realize that there are many reasons why women do not have children of their own?
I hope they don’t look at women the same way they did ATTILA or the people behind the Comstock Act.
My mother has been dead for almost 16 years now.
I bet she and my late father are turning in their graves right now, angry that two men loudly expressed the view, and perhaps urged others to support the view, that women with cats are too educated and, without children, are disrupting the natural way of life.
Janyce C. Katz served as an Assistant Attorney General for nearly 25 years and currently works at General Innovations and Goods, Inc.
