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Removed section

Since the material regarding cat ladies in fiction is adequately covered in Cat lady (disambiguation) I'm removing the section. Perhaps an enterprising editor will start a page dealing with cat ladies in fiction?Trilobitealive (talk) 01:26, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed plagiarism

I couldn't see any way of salvaging the synopsis section about the cat ladies video, since most of the synopsis was direct plagiarism from the website http://www.catladiesdoc.com/about.html. People you just can't do that on wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Plagiarism for details. Trilobitealive (talk) 03:01, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit by new editor

I've moved this edit to the talk page until either the new user or another editor or I can find sources to reference it. Here is the edit by User:62.116.104.94 which appears to be a good faith first attempt at Wikipedia editing:

In finnish and german a cat lady is considered to be a sexy lady analagous to foxy lady in English.

Regards. Trilobitealive (talk) 02:26, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have spoken to a Finnish native and they concur. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.229.219.108 (talk) 07:55, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Cat woman" has similar, but less direct, connotations in some English-langauge media, esp. science fiction and comics (e.g., Cordwainer Smith's "C'" underpeople; Cat Woman), but has nothing to do with the "cat lady", who is not conventionally perceived as "sexy". Acwilson9 (talk) 02:11, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Toxoplasma gondii

From The New York Times: "New research into this common parasite — Toxoplasma gondii — may offer clues to the phenomenon known to the unscientifically-minded as “crazy cat lady” syndrome" (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09_10_catcoat.html). Shouldn't this information be incorporated? 75.70.204.208 (talk) 01:58, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is evidence that toxoplasmosis may have some effect on human brains, but there is no proof that it will influence our opinions on cats. Rats aren't humans. Cats are a commonly hoarded animal because they look babies, they can live independently, and they reproduce at a fast rate. The "crazy cat lady" may get toxoplasmosis eventually from cats living in unsanitary conditions, but it's not what causes it. Toxoplasmosis has plenty of pseudoscience attached to even the most reliable sources. Funny how this parasite supposedly makes women "more promiscuous" AND causes crazy cat ladies. 74.36.131.135 (talk) 12:56, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also any starving, carnivorous/omnivorous animal will eat you when you're dead. 71.174.82.230 (talk) 20:43, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cleared up unsubstantiated claims, made new section "Crazy Cat Lady Syndrome" as it has appeared in media. Lulurascal (talk) 07:39, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Additions to the page

I am a student at LSU in a Women's Gender Studies class and I am going to add to this page. These are the things I want to add: How people use the term “cat Lady” as a reference towards single, white, middle aged women who also have pets. And also how today's youth is starting to use this term often in accordance with them being single or just getting out a relationship and plan on "giving up".

Jaclyn Docherty (talk) 16:05, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I am a student at SFU in a Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies class and I would like to add some information to this page. I did not see any additions mentioned by Jaclyn above. I would like to add information about how the term "(Crazy) Cat Lady" is used to marginalize and stereotype childless women who care for animals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tperl94 (talk • contribs) 18:41, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Removing Sections

The two recent sections that were added are written in a manner more suited for magazine journalism than for a site like Wikipedia that strives to be as unbiased as possible. The two sections also don't sound very professional and have zero citations to back up the claims they hold. Examples: "Majority of the people who use the term "crazy cat lady" find it to be harmless and do not mean it in a sexist or oppressive manner" and "Even celebrities like Taylor Swift have multiple cats and she posts about them on social media." There are numerous grammatical errors as well. I am removing both of the sections for now. If someone would like to, they can go under 'Edit' and find the two sections and rewrite them so they sound more professional, factual, and unbiased. The sections were called 'Harmless Term?' and 'Or Offensive Term?' This is a small article about what a cat lady is, not a lecture on gender studies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.183.107.198 (talk) 22:45, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Non-female "(crazy) cat lady)"

I, a cat-loving man who participates in care of feral cats, sometimes deliberately and publicly call myself a "crazy cat lady" in order to contradict the sterotype, which, like many other similar stereotypes, is often used (inadvertently or otherwise) to diminish the social value of women and girls. If, both, I am not a "party of one", and there is documentation of that, perhaps something to that effect should be added to this article. Acwilson9 (talk) 02:19, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]