When
movies and TV shows star women with cats, their pets lend an extra
dimension of realism. Dear Hollywood: if you are going for accuracy,
give your heroine a cat, not a stripping career. Every one of my girl
friends (well...almost) is more likely to own a cat than to go wild on
DVD. There are surely far more cat-owning women than hookers with
hearts of gold...but roles for women in TV and film do not reflect
that.
I wanted to compile a list of the
best cat ladies, crazy or not, found in pop culture. But my difficulty
finding examples proves true the complaint above. And another thing
about the archetype of the cat lady. So she's single and she has cats:
Why is she a tragic figure? We often joke on Scanner about cat ladies
(as in the relatively together, non-hoarding type we know and love) and
we've certainly used the term to describe ourselves, but we don't
really have a problem with keeping a cat or three. So why aren't cat
fanciers portrayed more positively?
Witness the following feline-fancying wrecks.
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