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[–] 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Needlessly gendered, casual sexism. It's not "people" who are implied to be dumb and impulsive, just men. Cool, very haha.

EDIT. man, sure are a lot of people who wanna defend sexism. I think the real lesson here is that I should just block people earlier.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago (36 children)

    Pretty sure people like their orange cats?

    Also if we're going by your interpretation of what the poster is meaning it's not really needlessly gendered. Most people on the site would be young men, and young men statistically make more dumb and impulsive decisions than young women, it's why we pay more for insurance.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The only issue I have is her saying "too many", as if it's a bad thing or something

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    I think that says more about how we view men as a group than anything. Why is "too many men" automatically a negative?

    It's funny, I stumbled on this meme in the wholesome community just now that I think is fitting:

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Because in this context it means there are more men than necessary that exhibit this. Otherwise the statement would be, "not enough men"

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Are “dumb and impulsive” the only traits that orange cats exhibit?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    No, but its whats implied by "orange cat behaviour". It has no real foundation in actual cat behaviour research, but its a tag or search term for orange cats doing stupid and/or impulsive things that people upload

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    Broadfern’s comment is a more wholesome interpretation that I think describes some boys quite well:

    Cute, friendly, food-motivated, prone to getting into lighthearted mischief, and occasionally doing things with little regard to personal safety because the fun factor is more important.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    thank you. That's exactly what most people mean by "orange cat": Stupid, impulsive, "sharing one brain cell".

    Some (very insincere) people rushing in the comments to pretend "nono, that's not what it means". Because if it means, what everyone else thinks it to mean, then they'd have admit that they're a little sexist. Or okay at least with sexist humor targeted at men.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    What do you consider to be "orange cat behavior"?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    A google search away

    Orange Cat Behavior and Orange Cats Share One Brain Cell refers to the widespread notion and cliche that orange (ginger) cats are more chaotic, more affectionate and more stupid than other types of cats.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    I didn't want to know what the Google definition was. I was wondering what YOU specifically thought. Which is that orange cats are chaotic and stupid. I kinda mentioned this in my other comment further down the chain.

    But the logic is orange cat = bad, men = cat, therefore men = bad. Yes? But that's YOUR personal interpretation. The person in the original pic intentionally left it vague and our minds filled in what we thought should go there.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 week ago*

    No one is implied to be dumb and impulsive. The statement isn't exclusive to men, or even all men. This is far from sexism, it's humorously punching up.

    If you're going to ignore the post and make up your own joke anyway, why don't you tell us what it is?

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