Members of the 30-Second Read team usually manufacture sentences in happy co-existence – until they don’t, as occasionally happens in every hifalutin media enterprise. “Occasionally” is now.
Did you see the column here two days ago where regular scribbler Emily Toth decried the rise of young dudes as competitors in the Cat Video Festival? She penned the phrases “patriarchal fraud” and “power grab.” She then asked, “Since when have young men become cat ladies?”
Lordy, lordy, lordy. The correct question isn’t about men displacing cat ladies.
It’s this: Cat Video Festival?
Cats are OK. I shared house with one for years – a ginger tabby named Emily, like the good Dr. Toth. As cats do, my Emily condescended to receive food from me.
I s’pose, as Dr. Toth posits, that ladies have for millennia comforted cats just back from slaying rodents. More recent are ubiquitous videos about car crashes, yodeling, farting, how to kiss and … cats.
Cat videos, I posit, hardly lift the global video inventory, whether from dudes or ladies.
No, for uplift we must look to …
Puppy videos.
Jeff,
Kittens & cats are so much better material for funny videos! But, as a former dog owner, they win the award for devotion to their owners & for the companionship they provide.
P.S. The videos at the Manship were the best I’ve seen. Even the ones featuring adult cats were hilarious, especially the one where a cat, sitting next to a dog, couldn’t resist the urge any longer & swatted his canine companion who didn’t see it coming because he was turned away. He didn’t know what hit him.
Nancy, thanks for filling me in about the Manship videos. Until seeing your note, I didn’t know what had given Emily the idea for her column.