Childless Cat Ladies Claw JD Vance: We 'Don’t Exist To Fulfill Your Baby-Making Fantasies'

WASHINGTON ― Well, JD Vance has really stepped in it. Three months before the U.S. general election, he has pissed off a massive and unlikely voting bloc: the so-called childless cat ladies.

They are Democrats and Republicans. Some are in their 20s, some their 70s, and some in between. They are stepparents, adoptive parents and people who have struggled with infertility. They are people who don’t have children by choice, and are perfectly content with pets.

They are women, but there are men, too, who are furious on their behalf.

“Maybe remind this fucknut that George Washington was an adoptive dad with no biological children,” said one Maryland father, who requested not using his name, because manners .

Vance, an Ohio senator and Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, has been under fire for weeks over comments he made in 2021. In a resurfaced interview , he mocked Vice President Kamala Harris for being one of the “childless cat ladies” who are “miserable” with their lives and “don’t have a direct stake” in America’s future because they haven’t made babies.

His response to criticisms over this has been to double down , saying he has “nothing against cats,” and then to triple down , urging people to “pray for those people” who did not birth children. My God, he just keeps making it so much worse.

Harris, now the Democratic presidential nominee, is a parent, though. She is the stepmother to two children via her marriage to second gentleman Doug Emhoff.

Lack of accuracy notwithstanding, the public backlash to Vance’s claims has been swift. Celebritiesand elected leadersin both major parties have excoriated him for suggesting that a woman’s worth is tied directly to having children, and for brushing aside so many