Re:She Wanted a Man with a Good Job Who Is Nice to Animals
by dwd on Monday August 19, 2019 @02:48AM
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I think it's a perception of cats from people who have never owned one and only grew up with a dog, and were brought up to not like cats.
These kinds of dog people tend to associate with the traits in their dogs they like or wish about themselves. I think they then associate cat owners with cat traits (particularly negative ones).
Re:She Wanted a Man with a Good Job Who Is Nice to Animals
by kwhitefoot on Monday August 19, 2019 @02:49AM
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> the American attitude that dogs are always boys and cats are always girls
Really?
How odd.
Re:She Wanted a Man with a Good Job Who Is Nice to Animals
by mrkstu on Monday August 19, 2019 @09:49AM
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Yep- all the dogs my wife and I have owned have been female- yet, nearly universally, everyone has presupposed them to be male.
Our one cat, on the other hand, though male, was presupposed to be female.
It's definitely a thing.
Re:She Wanted a Man with a Good Job Who Is Nice to Animals
by dwd on Monday August 19, 2019 @07:15PM
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Weird.
Personally, I would choose a female dog and male cat every time. Less dominant and more bidable dog and a less skitish cat who's more likely to not take crap from the dog at meal time.
Is this about the American attitude that dogs are always boys and cats are always girls, i.e. having a cat is "less manly"?
The only two things I can think of are that dogs naturally lend themselves to meeting people because they need to be walked, act as a conversation starter and may even approach strangers themselves; and that dogs are (apparently especially in the US) more socially accepted than cats, so the chances of someone being a dog person (or familiar with dogs) being higher than for cats.