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she-is-ovarit · 1 year

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I love this. I posted a little about this before, but wanted to expand. Women's history fact of the day:

Women of the Neolithic era in particular loved keeping pets and it was common for them to trap small animals - such as cats - and adopted as pets.

In the Amazon region, where hunting and gathering and subsistence horticulture is still practiced by a handful of surviving Amerindian groups, hunters commonly capture young wild animals and take them home where they are then adopted as pets, usually – although not invariably – by women.

There's a theory that cats may have domesticated themselves by being attracted to human villages that produced grain and seeds and attracted rodents, and then the bolder cat clans survived under natural selection. Or, alternatively, women domesticated cats.

Based on these sorts of observations, it could be argued that the domestication of F.s. libyca occurred where and when it did because tamed wildcats were already an integral feature of village life as a result of people actively adopting, hand-rearing and socialising young wildcats to keep as pets

The relationship between cats and women stretch back since the stone age. They were burned with us during the witch trials (rabbits commonly too!), suffered from abuse and treated as property with us by men ambivalent to us under religions such as Christianity, were associated as us within medieval folklore and as a metaphor for female sexuality and anatomy ("pussy"), and continue to be associated with us today.

Women's independence from man is derogatorily associated with cats ("crazy cat lady"), a nod to female (and feline) separatism. It's tendency to groom itself frequently was also associated with cleanliness and domesticity, and it was frequently used in posters by anti-suffragettes symbolically to denote that women were simple and delicate, that women's suffrage was as absurd as cat suffrage. Some suffragettes took back the meaning of the cat, adopting a (black!) cat named Saxon as their official mascot.

They survived male oppression throughout history, for thousands of years, right beside us and within our arms.

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cowgirlgirl2002 · 7 months

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Cats are woman’s best friend, cats are intelligent, independent, agile, flexibility, intimidating, elegance, companionship, cunning and strong sense of intuition just like women. Living alone with cats isn’t insult people think it is. Misogyny and misogynistic men audacity to think women living with cats isn’t a good thing and think it’s a sad life to live. Women who been labeled as “witches” lived with cats since forever to keep pest away and form harming their crops.

Living alone with cats” women for long time had cats in their homes to get rid of pest that’ll infect. Cat ownership reduce risk of cardiovascular disease and improve heart health, alleviate social isolation and loneliness, and reduce stress

Both women and cats have a long history together, they both are agile and nimble, able to move with silence and stealth. At the same time, they are also fiercely independent, choosing to live on their own terms.

Women are also to be believed to have domesticated wolf wolves in to becoming companions long ago, wolves are much more less intimated by women because of their high amounts of estrogen and lower amounts of testosterone compared to men, and willingness to approach women than men, because men act out in more large manner and have higher voices in terms of yelling and body size.