“Unironically loving a cat when you are a single woman is not socially savvy. Sometimes, when I would mention Zoe, I could see people wince as they tallied the facts in their head: bookish, lives alone, knits a lot, watches Charlie Rose. There’s a moment in an old MST3K episode where a cop in his squad car is dubbed to say, ‘Ehh, if I stop and get donuts I’ll just be reinforcing the stereotype.’ That’s what it was like when I got a cat.” - Elegy for a Grey Cat: On Grief, Books, and His Dark Materials by Janet Potter
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“Unironically loving a cat when you are a single woman is not socially savvy. Sometimes, when I would mention Zoe, I could see people wince as they tallied the facts in their head: bookish, lives alone, knits a lot, watches Charlie Rose. There’s a moment in an old MST3K episode where a cop in his squad car is dubbed to say, ‘Ehh, if I stop and get donuts I’ll just be reinforcing the stereotype.’ That’s what it was like when I got a cat.”

- Elegy for a Grey Cat: On Grief, Books, and His Dark Materials by Janet Potter