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Heterosexual men who love their cats get the NY Times Styles section treatment, as writer Abby Ellin finds more dudes "are posting photographs and videos of their little buddies on YouTube and on Web sites like menandcats.com, and Twittering about them to anyone who will listen."
One cat owner, Adam Fulrath, says," My cat takes priority over the new relationship. Realistically, unless there’s something absolutely amazing about her, he wins.” Elizabeth Daza "who dated a cat-owning man for eight years," said, "Straight men with cats seem to be really secure and stable. They don’t need to be running around the park and proving their masculinity like the dog guys.” And cat lover and owner John Scalzi--of bacon on cat fame-- even goes as far to call dogs "the insecure man's best friend."
This reminds us the part in Meet the Parents where Robert DeNiro's character has a mini-monologue on cats, after calling dogs "emotionally shallow": "When you yell at a dog, his tail will go between his legs and cover his genitals, his ears will go down. A dog is very easy to break, but cats make you work for their affection. They don't sell out the way dogs do."
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wrong.
"the insecure man's best friend"?
check yoself!
This whole argument is "emotionally shallow."
I disagree.
If you're not gay and you have a cat, you're retarded - as proven by this dude's helmet like such as.
My fiancee and I have two cats, and I like both of them very much, but I'm always going to prefer dogs. You can't wrestle with a cat, even a Maine Coon (which we have). They're too fragile.
And you can't teach them to do stuff like this either: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFHREkfu5hg
Jen, are you getting even with Jake for something by posting this? :)
The reason I love cats is because they have personality, and like the movie quote says: "they make you work for their affection".
Cats are very sensitive and smart. If they sense someone doesn't like them, they'll treat you as such. Hence why cat-haters say they are arrogant animals.
Some people prefer the "easiness" of those simple beings we know as dogs. They'll love anyone who pays a cent of attention.
I've own both dogs and cats all my life, I should know.
I love dogs, but I always feel like in this town, it's hard to have a big enough apartment for one. Maybe I just need to make more money...
As a straight and married man with ... multiple cats, all I can say is wonderful!
anybody who has a cat, male or female must be insane. I can't stand the smell of Cat Pee! It drives me up the wall. It causes me great furious anger whenever I smell it. It's like a psychotic drug or something.
...and a sub class of straight men who love cats is 'straight men with synthesizers who love cats':
http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/search/label/Cat
Bh
It's called 'cheesing'....South Park episode 'Major Boobage'.
Straight men like pussies, not cats.
It's okay only as long as they don't name them Fluffy, Mr. Tiddlywinks, or Cleopatra.
Wow. It is true. The comments in this post absolutely prove that men who don't like cats are insecure. Only insecure people need to go around calling others "insane" or "retarded."
Besides, Gothamist likes cats. Both Jen and Jake have them. Well, okay, maybe Jake is insane and retarded, but that's regardless of his preference in pets.
Jay Leno leads the straight dude cat brigade so just get over this bizarre pet-surrogate gender imprinting already.
What do you call a man in a helmet taking time out of his day to create a website called menandcats.com or posting pictures of him and his cat and posting them online so other people can see him in his helmet with his cat? He ain't riding a bicycle so the only other conclusion I could come to was that he was retarded.
I'm all for being a lil more rational as a gender but this all out feminization of men is just pathetic.
so there is an entire subclass of people keeping cats around to smell their pee and get high. Now it makes sense. cat lovers are really cat pee lovers.
I strongly disagree. These men aren't straight or gay, they're just pussies.
Dogs are way too high-maintenance. I'll take changing cat litter twice a week vs. walking a dog three or four times a day.
Dogs are good if you have a yard. They're a pain in the ass in an apartment. And, if you're a male who owns a 5-pound dog calling a cat owner gay... that may actually break the irony scale.
Dogs just aren't meant for these tiny apartments. Cats are versatile.
I've dated two cat lovers, one had four cats the other had one cat. Granted I'd take the man with one cat over four cats but there is something special about a man who could love such a temperamental animal.
Wow. That is one incredibly non-straight looking photo.
MEN ARE THE NEW WOMEN....
This is the gay-est post on Gothamist yet. I am glad that someone else noticed this guy's helment. Maybe he is secure and stable because he just got off the short bus with his little cat.
Right, because getting defensive and insulting others based on their choice of pets is the sort of thing stable & secure guys do.
Ever stop and think that maybe it's just fun to play with a dog and that it's not some elaborate ruse to prove how macho you are?
i touched a cat and i liked it - mmnnnnn - something something tuna chapstick.
Cats are great for kicking!!!!!!1
straight men who love cats are closeted