Are most cat lovers female?

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I am sure that there are some males who dote on their cats.

But it does seem to me to be a female thing.

Am I mistaken?

estimates are that between 65 and 80% of owned cats are female.

I am certainly not claiming the above figure to be authorative. However, I think they maybe indicative.

www.psychologytoday.com/blog/canine-corner/201305/the-truth-about-cats-and-dogs-the-numbers

The cats are female?? Or the owners?

Every more variables...

I like lizards. I also have a right hook Tyson would be proud of and have never had a "cat fight" in my life.

I also like dogs, who eat raw meat and bones.

Not sure any of those are indicative of anything at all really.

My DH and DS1 are totally obsessed with our new kittens.

DS1 is gay.

Not sure quite how that fits with your theory actually

(I love them too, but they aren't my new babies, like they clearly are for DH)

"But the implications of such an acceptance are huge."

Are they?

But the how can you explain the differences in our own society?

Well, on this specific board the answer is clearly 'Because of the patriarchy'

"But the how can you explain the differences in our own society?"

Well, for one, you are in the ME and few other FWR posters are, so not sure which society you mean.

Are there more social stereotypes around women owning cats (crazy cat lady, children substitutes for spinsters etc etc) and men owning dogs (pitbulls etc - aggressive owner, aggressive dogs, blah blah)? Yeah probably.

Do I think that says anything fundamental about gender difference? Nope. Same as ratios of primary school teachers etc - I
Can use socialisation to explain anything like that, as I'm sure could you, if you chose.

When you say you thought you were maybe being a bit goady posting in FWR...?

Succinctly put, PacificDOGwood.

Ya BITCH

BIWI, did you read my OP?:
I am sure that there are some males who dote on their cats.

I'm not sure I have a 'theory' actually, just some observations, backed up by a bit of possibly dodgy data.

Well of course I read your OP. That's why I posted!

You also said

There is the stereotypical image of a single woman over a certain age sitting at home... owning a cat.

So I was giving you 'evidence' that it isn't necessarily so!!!

Apologies for over-use of exclamation marks

I'm a dog person, so must be quite butch, I suppose.

I think the language wrt cat and dog related expressions is quite telling as mentioned above, I don't think cat or dog ownership is divided along gender lines.
This is a totally, not-evidence based opinion btw.

I thought PacificDogwood's reply was ironic.

A dogwood is plant btw, ya pussy!

I stand corrected and in the pussy corner

Sorry, I am quite prone to taking the piss….

partial, if you posted this in Chat the answered would still show reporting bias because the vast majority of MN members are female.

I was not having a go at you btw. Or anybody.
The pussy was for Yonic

I freely admit to being a cat person!

So, if stats suggest that more women than men own cats, no conclusion ought to be drawm

Causation does not imply correlation

That statement should be the other way round, partial, correlation does not imply causation. I think you know that, though.

My XH was a pure cat person, practically a cat himself.

I don't like having animals in the house at all, find it really hard to deal with. One of our many incompatibilities.

You are, of course quite right Yonic

In any event, that's not the socialisation argument, which is about the impossibility of proving anything is caused by nature when every human is nurtured in a society. But I think you know that too.

This thread isn't like you, partial. All ok?

Thank you Yoniic. It doesn't help my 'argument' that I should make so many annoying mistakes