Arizona GOP Congressional Candidate Said Childless Cat Ladies Are 'Demented' And 'Sick'

WASHINGTON ― Arizona Republican congressional candidate Blake Masters in 2021 criticized women who have cats but who are not married and do not have children, calling it “sick” and “demented.”

In a newly unearthed video, Masters, then 35, laments that most of his peers from Stanford Law School are not married, don’t have kids and are not on track to own a home.

“That’s obviously bad,” Masters said in remarks at a Republicans for National Renewal event in December 2021. “There’s something very dysfunctional about that.”

He went on to specifically attack “the cat ladies.”

“I think it’s a sick kind of cope; they try to brag about this,” said the Arizona Republican. “You see the cat ladies just kind of say, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be married. Marriage is a construct of the patriarchy. Right? I don’t want to have children. Why would you have children? Having children is bad for the environment.’ And that’s demented.”

Masters added that “what’s really sad” is what’s behind the ideology he believesis leading people to choosenot to get married or make babies.

“How does this become the new normal?” he asked rhetorically. “Well, the answer in one word is progressivism.”

A Masters campaign spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

Here’s the video clip of Masters’ remarks:

Masters’ comments are obviously offensive for a number of reasons, the least of which is his suggestion that something is wrong with women who choose to live with adorable pets instead of getting married and having children.

But his criticisms take on new relevance as Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, JD Vance, faces fire for his past criticisms of “childless cat ladies,” saying they are “miserable” and have no direct stake in America’s