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The Impact of Posing with Cats on Female Perceptions of Male Dateability
- DonHopkins 4y agoHow about different more natural poses, like the cat stand on top of and dominating the man?
- giuliomagnifico 4y ago> Women viewed men as less masculine when holding the cat; higher in neuroticism, agreeableness, and openness; and less dateable.
- pfisherman 4y agoI’d take this with a grain of salt. We tend to assign meaning and make value judgements based on context. For example, a swole guy cuddling a cat next to a squat rack will elicit a very different reaction than the same guy holding the same cat in front of a blank wall. Similarly, I don’t think that anyone looks at this picture of Blofeld and thinks he looks particularly agreeable or open.[0] 0. https://images.app.goo.gl/jFHLBo883XVo3Gb86 https://images.app.goo.gl/jFHLBo883XVo3Gb86
- derbOac 4y agoYeah anecdotally I can say female friends' reactions to firefighters rescuing kittens is very positive. I think part of what's going on is just the weirdness of a staged photo with a cat.
- PaulHoule 4y agoThose are awful "cat and person" portraits. The cats are obviously engaged with an off-screen handler and not the subject so it does not come across like a person and their companion animal. The off-screen handler shows up in most animal performances, there is a scene D-movie Devil Dog where the family dog leads the members of a satanic coven to a pentacle and it's obvious the dog is following a handler (Satan?) and being submissive, not dominant.
- jspash 4y agoNot to mention the w/cat photos show poor posture and funny (my interpretation) hair. The w/o cat photos also show the faces straight on, which makes them look more masculine. ie. thicker neck, more prominent jawline. There are too many subtle differences to list. I'd like to see this done with identical photos with only the cat being the difference. My belief is that the results would be similar, but with a smaller significance.
- havblue 4y agoMy wife told me that having a cat on my profile was a positive: it showed I was at least responsible enough to take care of a small animal.
- mise_en_place 4y agoI think preselection is the best indicator for success with women. Women are attracted to men who have already attracted other women. So it's best to pose with other female friends.
- andix 4y agoYou need to be very careful not to cross the „jerk line“ right away with that. It has to be in a way that the interested female doesn’t feel so threatened that she turns away on the spot.
- paulsutter 4y agoA friend ran product at Match.com, and the two most popular male images were always (a) a male with a stethoscope, and (b) a muscular male
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- havblue 4y agoIf she finds out the stethoscope is only used on cats though, she might not be as interested. "He's a doctor! Wait. He's a cat doctor..."
- HPsquared 4y agoThe first hurdle is the highest.
- itronitron 4y agopopular by what metric?
- moffkalast 4y agoClearly the ultimate male is a buff doctor with a cat.
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- foobarbecue 4y agoInteresting. Not a cat fan myself, but it seems like most women in my life are, so I expected the opposite result -- I would have thought that posing with a cat would improve my odds.
- krona 4y agoUnless your cat is a tiger, I wouldn't bother.
- housedrafta 4y agoIt seems like it would improve odds for lesbians.
- baal80spam 4y agoWhat a great candidate for the Ig Nobel Prize!
- boboche 4y agoCats… meh. Would love reading the same study with dogs, and sub-categorize between big dogs vs. smaller.
- Kreotiko 4y agoI’d like to see the same study but with golden retrievers
- daenz 4y agoThey mention different dog studies in the paper, which may cover what you're asking about. >The authors found that when labeled a “dog person” the men were perceived as more masculine than when labeled a “cat person.”
- smcl 4y agoThat's interesting, I would have guessed the opposite - that you might be thought of as having a more caring or loving side if you had a pet. As a dog owner myself I've met a couple of partners just through them coming up to see me about my dog in a pub or a cafe. I never thought it was down to being perceived as more masculine though, I just assumed that it gives anyone who might be interested a really simple excuse to strike up a conversation and introduce themselves, but in a way that avoids figuring out how ask someone out directly.
- kixiQu 4y agoI gotta say this is a tough one just because posing with a cat is such an unnatural thing from the perspective of cat ownership. Guy sitting on sofa with cat lying on the back of the sofa is different from "Here Look At My Cat" guy.
- bluefirebrand 4y agoThat's funny you say that. I met my girlfriend on a dating site and I had a photo of myself with my cat laying on the back of the sofa. And I choose that picture on purpose because it always got people excitedly asking about my cat. So this "shows a guy is undateable" has not been my experience.
- noahchen 4y agoI think there is as difference between having the cat in the background and posing with the cat. It's in the same vein of having a photo of your cat on your shirt.
- highwaylights 4y agoNot the owner of a cat, but yeah I would think the difference here is between: 1) I have a cat. 2) CATS CATS CATTY CAT CATS.
- Infinitesimus 4y agoIf they rejected you based on your profile, you wouldn't know would you?
- TuringNYC 4y ago>> If they rejected you based on your profile, you wouldn't know would you? I guess you wouldn't know, but that seems like a good thing. As a cat-dad, i used to put my cat on some profile photos. Why even bother wasting time on someone who doesn't like cats and/or isn't open-minded to cats? Best to filter them out asap.
- zvmaz 4y agoThe best resource on human mating strategies is David Buss, The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating. Documented, empirical, and factually "cold".
- Oarch 4y agoDataclysm was a nice data-driven breakdown of all aspects of online dating by one of the founders of OKCupid
- ghaff 4y agoDidn't know he had written a book. He had some interesting blog posts back in the day.
- astrange 4y ago“Factually cold” is a yellow flag, and writing a book called “evolutionary psychology” is a red flag. People will accept any lie if you say it’s “the harsh truth we have to accept”, that’s why this site is so famously unnecessarily cynical. Bit worrying Amazon reviews too, the “I hate my wife” marriage is a famous boomer pathology not a universal constant. > You have to wonder why the divorce rate is 50%+, most marriages are miserable, marriages kill libido, many cheat, and so forth. Your dreams might be crushed reading this book so avoid it if you want to stay in Wonderland. And: > The most interesting topic I remember is the Coolidge Effect where males tire and withdraw from having sex with the same female partner. The Coolidge Effect has been tested many times on mammals and the same pattern can be observed (very predictable). I think I was just reading how this isn’t true? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/women-get-bored-sex-long-term-relationships/582736/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/women-get-...
- zvmaz 4y agoYou could also try to read the book, or its cover, for a start. David Buss is a renowned and serious scholar. If you think that "evolutionary psychology" is a "red flag," I suggest you email another renowned biologist, Richard Dawkins, and warn him of if[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxhzmIlgBLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxhzmIlgBLY
- einpoklum 4y agoThe abstract fails to mention that: > Survey respondents were recruited in January 2020 through > Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk; Amazon Inc., Seattle, WA, > USA) platform which is a tiny fraction of the group of women who use online dating apps/websites, and is most likely quite unrepresentative as a sample. That in itself makes the conclusions, IMHO, invalid.
- ghaff 4y agoIn fairness, their qualifiers probably filter out a fair bit of what's likely very unrepresentative about the Mechanical Turk pool--although I'd probably still expect it to trend poorer than the online dating pool overall. The survey was developed by Quatrics who I've actually used and seem to be a good outfit.
- genericacct 4y agoEntirely agree.
- irrational 4y agoThere is the stereotype of the cat lady. I wonder if the survey was reversed if it would say “Men viewed women holding cats as higher in neuroticism and less dateable.”
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- zeptonix 4y ago100% agree
- sarasasa28 4y agoguys with cats.. I don't know
- dvtrn 4y agoThis is a Seinfeld quote (from one of my favorite episodes, heh), for those downvoting thinking the commenter is making any kind of actual value judgement. Merely commenting because you beat me to quoting the same scene
- MikePlacid 4y agoHas this article passed QA? I mean - was it subjected to a treatment by a special team whose goal is to break it and expose all errors.
- anonu 4y agoThere was a study from a decade ago on online dating. Apparently the optimal set of profile pictures for men was: one photo with friends, one shirtless pic, and one pic with an animal. They didn't specify which. I'm guessing they didn't control for cats.
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- qbasic_forever 4y agoAny dating research from a decade ago is useless IMHO. The dating apps and newer generations of folks have totally changed what it's like to date on Tinder/Hinge/etc. today vs. eHarmony/Match.com/OkCupid/craigslist back in the day. Those old sites were all about writing and describing yourself, with a few pics on the side. Everything today is about making a super curated Instragram-style glamorous couple photos and that's it. The apps barely have any text description and are all about very fast decision making, yes/no, from just the first photo.
- O__________O 4y agoCurious that they didn’t address the opposite as well, that being — what is the impact of posing with cats on male perceptions of female dateability? If anything, guessing that has a lot more bias, given the average cat owner is female and over 50, at least in the US. For anyone interested in stats on (US) pet owners, checkout this post: https://www.pawlicy.com/blog/us-pet-ownership-statistics/ https://www.pawlicy.com/blog/us-pet-ownership-statistics/ __ As one point of data, rare one at that, while I enjoy and respect animals — in my opinion, they should not be pets; that is, I would never be with anyone that had or wanted pets.
- itronitron 4y agoI'd also like to see that study but I also want to see them chart the impact of posing with multiple cats. Is there an elbow curve or just a linear trendline?
- O__________O 4y agoOnce had a neighbor who feed 30+ street cats via an exterior basement entrance they left open — so there are definitely people out there that have lots of cats.
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- fiprofessor 4y agoAmusing, but MDPI is a semi-predatory publisher: https://paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/is-mdpi-a-predatory-publisher/ https://paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/is-mdpi-a-pre... A common tactic is to have tons of "special issues" that pump out a lot of articles. This particular journal, Animals, engages in this: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/animals/sections https://www.mdpi.com/journal/animals/sections
- conformist 4y agoYeah, like, sadly when I see [MDPI + interesting title] my reflex is to switch to "how did they p-hack, publish underpowered studies, or otherwise mess up the stats"-mode, and that's probably not the worst prior to have...
- mancerayder 4y agoAmerican women? In the U.S. dogs seem preferred among the younger generation (and possibly in general, I don't know the numbers). I've heard it that cats are 'for women' and dogs preferred because it shows loyalty. A large percentage of women on dating profiles in my area write "I always stop to pet dogs when I'm out walking, I can't help it. Big plus if you have a dog!!" I'm pretty sure it's cultural. In many countries dogs are expected to live outside as they're viewed as dirty. I believe in Middle Eastern countries cats are preferred to dogs. I'm skeptical of evolutionary link here in terms of male desirability. Dog ownership might have something to do with a proxy for children and 'taking care' of a child-like creature (cats are more independent).
- _jal 4y agoEvo psych like this is generally indistinguishable from just-so stories. My partner (US American woman) thinks dogs have been bred to act needy and pathetic. I tend to agree. I guess I can see how that could be mistaken that for loyalty, but it doesn't make it more attractive.
- kareemsabri 4y agoThere's a lot of dog breeds. Some are aloof and distant, some are needy and anxious (which people do confuse as affection/love). I prefer the former.
- JauntyHatAngle 4y agoWhat dogs are you talking about here? Hard to see a border collie as needy and pathetic to me. Labrador maybe. Pugs definitely.
- pawelmurias 4y agoIsn't a border collie crazy need as a high energy dog that needs a lot of stimulation?
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- yabatopia 4y agoPosing with a cat makes a man less dateable is not really an issue. As long as it attracts the right person, another cat loving partner.
- pizzathyme 4y agoA friend of mine photoshopped his dating profile with puppies and pizzas. He is now engaged. His fiancé said that she thought it was obviously ridiculous but he looked like a fun guy so why not!
- amelius 4y agoSounds like an idea for a SaaS business.
- croddin 4y agoThis is one study where (…in mice) would have made made the study very different!
- gnicholas 4y agoYes, a male mouse posing with a cat would be seen as very masculine — perhaps foolishly so!
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- anewpersonality 4y agoHow did this pass ethics review?
- qbasic_forever 4y agoAre you concerned the cat's self esteem was harmed because it didn't get any dates?
- system2 4y agoShoot me for saying this but cat doesn't serve a purpose other than companionship. Dogs on the other hand are protective, loyal, submissive. These might play a subconscious role with cat/dog people. Cat also means laziness and no walking them outside, running with them, hiking, parks etc. Also the article didn't mention if these people had cats or dogs in the past. Dog owners or anyone who participated interacted with dogs will have a bias towards cat owners.
- glouwbug 4y agoMale dateability centers around muscle mass. Pick up iron, not cats
- collegeburner 4y agobased. and accurate tbh it's the biggest thing we can control physically maybe along with grooming. the "dad bod" shit is maximum cope from guys who arent willing to work off those extra 20lbs.
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- chungy 4y agoWould tigers count?
- ancientworldnow 4y agoTigers are a negative strike post tiger king doc.
- astrange 4y agoThat’s mostly good for dating other men. For women it’s only the psychological benefit you get from it. Anyway, if you’re dating a lot you’re failing. Should be taking advice from people who only had to go on one first date, they know how to pick winners.
- lobocinza 4y agoBeing overweight certainly isn't helpful.
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- astrange 4y agoMost Americans are overweight and most Americans are in relationships, so if you put these two together it seems like it’s not a deal breaker. Might be one under 30 though. (I looked those two things up separately but not together and am not sure what “overweight” means here. I, of course, am in perfect shape.)
- TeaDude 4y agoSome day I hope to try this experiment myself with a goat in the background ...although it might be a little tricky to assess effectiveness without a control and the fact that goats flip-flop between photobomb and photogenic whenever they feel like it.
- dsq 4y agoPopular culture can help us out. When the villain has a 'personal pet', as opposed to a shark tank or alligators, it's generally a cat. Though sometimes dogs, either a Doberman or German shepherd. So, relatively big dogs. I don't recall the hero ever having a pet. Maybe this is the proof for the trope that women prefer the bad boy? /jest
- nolok 4y agoJohn Wick comes to mind, especially the part where the director explained having the dog died allowed them to have absurd amount of revenge violence committed by the hero later on and still feel justified for the audience. On my phone so I can't look up the articles but the quote was more or less "once we killed the dog, Wick was allowed to do anything he wanted"
- dsq 4y agoAbsolutely, John Wick stands out. Though I think he started out villainous in the backstory.
- latexr 4y ago> I don't recall the hero ever having a pet. See TV Tropes’ Loyal Animal Companion[1] for a list of lists of examples. Like Canine Companion[2], which itself contains Post-Apocalyptic Dog[3], which links to I Am Legend[4], The Road Warrior[5], and others. I’ll stop before going too deep into this rabbit hole. [1]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoyalAnimalCompanion https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoyalAnimalCompa... [2]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CanineCompanion https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CanineCompanion [3]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PostApocalypticDog https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PostApocalypticD... [4]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/IAmLegend https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/IAmLegend [5]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheRoadWarrior https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheRoadWarrior
- dsq 4y agoThanks for those examples. Great reading!
- anigbrowl 4y agoThis study suggests that a closer look at the effects of different companion species on perceived masculinity and dateability is warranted. Does it, though? Quantitatively affirming the existence of a stereotype doesn't seem like any great discovery, more like indulging curiosity at best or lazy grant-seeking at worst. Here, for free, are some other ground-breaking hypotheses: Men with dogs will be perceived as more masculine than men with cats. Men with large dogs will be perceived as more masculine than men with small dogs. Men with snakes or tarantulas will be considered less dateable. However, this result will not obtain for women who identify as goths, necessitating the formation of a new subfield. Men with fish will be perceived as more or less dateable depending on whether they appear likely to eat the fish or feed it, with a small exceptional cohort composed exclusively of shark attack survivors. Men with sheep present a quandary: are cheap sweaters worth the uncertainty?
- _8j50 4y ago> Men with dogs will be perceived as more masculine than men with cats. Would a skinny guy with a chiuaua look more muscular than a bulkier guy with a cat? What about fat guy with a retreiver? If you are average build do cats add a "gentle giant" vibe? As opposed to a "tiny dick"/"he is compensating" stereotype if he had a pitbull? The car stereotypes are interesting, it use to be that a muscle car or a big truck made you look stronger but now it has the opposite effect. Overt displays if masculinity can be mistaken for insecurity about your weakness these days so this study is interesting in my opinion.
- guelo 4y agoI don't have a problem with a study like this. Companies like match.com have this data and much more. OKCupid's founder used to share some of their insights but he sold out. I'll always welcome adding more data to the public knowledge base even if it's a silly little thing like human matchmaking. This is actually what scares me about the artificial intelligence revolution, private companies are feeding their exclusive knowledge about humans to machine models that will then know more about us then we do. Those models are already being used to psychologically manipulate us, which after all is the specialty of these advertising companies.
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- synu 4y agoThe two particular cat photos they chose for the study seem almost comical, like a parody of a posed cat photo trend from the 80s. There are much more “normal” ways to have a picture with a cat that I wonder if they would perform differently.
- BenJong-Il 4y agoExactly! Especially in comparison to the non-cat pictures.
- zeptonix 4y agoExactly. And this really continues the whole idea that when you have thousands of "researchers" (people) who are judged solely upon quantity/acceptance hierarchy of published papers -- and what's at risk is their livelihoods -- you end up with lots of BS unreproducible research that can't be relied upon.
- User23 4y agoThis is an entirely unsurprising result for anyone capable of observation and understanding revealed preference in day to day life.
- orangeyjuicey 4y agoWhat's cool is that the women in this research guessed pretty much the same personality traits that previous research [1] found cat people have versus dog people. Always cool to see how these social proxies for personality work. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233630429_Personalities_of_Self-Identified_Dog_People_and_Cat_People https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233630429_Personali...
- rglover 4y agoThis is absolutely hilarious.
- kizer 4y agoThe soft sciences continue to substantiate the appropriateness of that name.
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- mrwh 4y agoAs someone who did have a cat in one of my online dating pictures, I can believe that both: a) having a cat picture decreases the number of matches, especially against having a dog picture; but also that b) it increases the likelihood of hitting it off with those matches that do come. Which is a net positive.
- runnerup 4y agoYeah when it comes to dating, whether online or IRL, I think standing out (in a way that’s true to yourself)is generally a higher “return” for the same effort vs “standing above”. Getting a Mohawk may decrease your potential dating pool by a lot, but also the few who see that as a symbol of compatibility will be far more likely to push harder to get a relationship with you. Whereas competing to be the most classically eligible bachelor wins you the most dates if you can be in the rarefied percentiles…but there’s a lot of competition. And within the population of single men and single women, it does tend to be a “winners-take-most” situation. I think the real “social crime” though is people pretending to be who they are not in order to score dates. Then even if you get in a relationship it’s usually not what either party actually wanted. Somewhat similar advice for jobs, actually. (In terms of being true to yourself as much as possible to find a good employer match). Obviously with jobs you just need money sometimes and have to shove yourself through a square hole. Whereas few people actually need sex/dates. Sometimes it sure feels like it, and human companionship has huge effects on physical and mental well-being (good or bad). Yes, I’m sure it’s saved more than a few people from suicide or poor decisions. But there’s no way to categorize this as a need unless we invent a way to fulfill it, all of which previously have been inhumane. Maybe AI/robotic companionship will allow new options.
- yieldcrv 4y agoI definitely go for polarizing over general appeal. I’m also generally not looking for a relationship. So there are also winner takes mosts in the fringes as well.
- sgjohnson 4y ago> Which is a net positive. That would entirely depend on what you’re looking for. Not everyone one dating sites is looking for a long-term romantic partner.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoIf it were one of my cats, I'd have my face and arms covered with bleeding scratches, and no cat in the picture.
- cenazoic 4y agoTangential aside, which amused me to remember. My old-fashioned, rural (southern US) grandmother used to tell me to never trust a man who didn’t like cats, because he would dislike a woman for the same reasons. (Barring allergies)
- analog31 4y agoThe smell?
- evancox100 4y agoThe shedding hair?
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- analog31 4y agoI'm talking about the house. I can always tell when I enter a house with cats.
- NonNefarious 4y agoThat's down to lax caretaking, and yes I've smelt it too. But my house has not a whiff of anything untoward, unless winds force air down the chimney and you can smell a bit of smoke. You will never smell anything cat-related (and yes there's a cat).
- odiroot 4y agoThat's a weird prejudice. I understand if it was about dogs, but there's plenty of reasons not to like cats.
- zeroonetwothree 4y agoThere’s plenty of reasons not to like dogs as well.
- jiffage13 4y agoA legendary friend of mine regularly poses with cats: https://www.instagram.com/berkavitch/?hl=en-gb https://www.instagram.com/berkavitch/?hl=en-gb
- starkd 4y agoIs that what makes him legendary?
- ricksunny 4y ago“Received: 28 April 2020” Imagine writing up this piece on cats in male pictures in dating profiles while the pandemic is breaking out in full force. (Note not judging - I just find it an interesting place to be operating from)
- hax0rbana 4y agoSample size: 2 men And in at least one picture it the cat looks like the cat doesn't want to be there. A man who doesn't care what an animal wants because his desire to have a cat in his photo raises red flags about the type of person this is.
- squarefoot 4y agoMy theory: the old joke that dogs have masters while cats have staff has always been true, and applies to this context too. Dogs can be trained to execute orders, cats cannot, therefore the dog owner is seen as, an often is, someone who gives orders and expects them to be followed, that is, an alpha male, or someone that is a better/stronger companion, at least when the choice is led by latent caveman and cavewoman instincts we still possess. A man willing to appear strong will almost always choose a dog. Which could also explain why I've very often seen a lot more cats among left wingers and more dogs among right wingers, and bigger aggressive dogs among extreme right wingers who bring them around exhibiting both their strength and the master ability to dominate them. To me it's all driven by instincts, both in men and women.
- BrandoElFollito 4y ago> cats cannot [be trained to execute orders] Sure they can. This does not work as well as with the dogs but cats are not dumb and prefer to obey rather than suffer. Take the example of the cat of my family (she and I coexist so to speak, the rest of the family is there to serve her). I taught her to move away from my laptop (her warm bed that does sounds and the screen behaves funny) when I approach and snap my fingers. The alternative is that she gets squeezed by the lid that I closer on her with a stick (just in case). She hisses but still leaves. My dog is amazed by my leadership when seeing that.
- auggierose 4y agoI hope that study wasn't in any way tax payer funded.
- decremental 4y agoThis isn't surprising at all. It has always been my instinct that women would find a man less desirable if he owns a cat. Good that they did a study on it to drive the point home but it seems like common sense to me.
- amelius 4y agoSummarized: "Women viewed men as less masculine when holding the cat; higher in neuroticism, agreeableness, and openness; and less dateable."
- aaaaaaaaaaab 4y agoI'm not sure... My Tinder pics had me posing with my cat, and I had tons of dates. Petting him was also a good excuse for getting the girls up to my place. He was a huge half-Russian blue. Sadly, he passed away due to intestinal lymphoma in 2018 :'(
- AlexCoventry 4y ago> an online, anonymous, cross-sectional survey Why believe the results from such a survey? Seems easily polluted by people outside the target population.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoThis article seems kind of absurd throughout, then you get to the conclusion where they drip the "cats make you look gay" argument and you really start to question why you've read this stupid article. I said this last time this study was posted and got people telling me how they left a date midway through as the guy said he had a cat and they assumed he was gay. So it may be society is stupid and not the article.
- lobocinza 4y agoWhat if the cat poses without a male?
- jzb 4y agoI had at least one photo with one of my cats in my last set of dating profile photos. The goal isn’t to get the most responses, it’s to get the right ones. The premise of the study is flawed, IMO, assuming the goal is to be broadly popular rather than getting a smaller batch of more likely matches. Note: now married to a woman who is equally fond of cats.
- luckman212 4y agoIgnore the headline and just remember the two cardinal rules of modern dating: Rule #1: Be attractive Rule #2: Don't be unattractive Everything else is noise.
- darepublic 4y agoOk but also after reading about the reproducibility crisis in the sciences I am skeptical about all studies of this type
- adxl 4y agoJames Bond villains were often seen petting a cat. I'm sure they'd be great on a date.