In response to Elliot Rodger’s Isla Vista killing spree – driven largely by a hatred of women, but also by other factors including a hatred of Asians – feminists launched the Twitter hashtag #YesAllWomen. Twitter users used the hashtag to associate Rodger’s murderous rampage – which killed four men and two women – with their everyday experiences.
In response, other Twitter users – including American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers – began using the satirical hashtag #YesAllCats.
#YesAllCats because FOR ONCE… I want to be noticed for my brain rather than my fuzzy belly. pic.twitter.com/BL4FpRmBMB
— Timothy Sandefur (@TimothySandefur) June 1, 2014
#YesAllCats because why do all DOGS go to heaven and not cats? Cats are constantly associated with evil, it needs to end HERE. — MëgCAT (@meg4nnn) June 2, 2014
#YesAllCats Because old ladies who love us are referred to as “crazy cat ladies” — Matt Eastwood (@MattEastwood1) June 2, 2014
thisisdogprivilege: #YesAllCats Because Watch_Dogs is trending on Twitter. Why not Watch_Cats? http://t.co/aRhpl4nLpN
— Talby (@not_a_marxist) June 2, 2014
Any criticism of #YesAllCats justifies the existence of #YesAllCats. (Yes, felinism/feminism is literally unfalsifiable like this.)
— Arpit Chauhan (@Arpit_Chauhan) June 2, 2014
#YesAllCats because it’s still illegal in the US for a cat to drive a car or vote. — Taylor (@Fergals1107) June 2, 2014
#Yesallcats because dogs are valorized in movies 23 times more often than cats. Where’s the Bechdel Test for that? — Christina H. Sommers (@CHSommers) May 31, 2014
#YesAllCats Fur-traitor! She’s a handkitten to the Petriarchy! pic.twitter.com/RkxWDZSuZg
— Alison Tieman (@Typhonblue) June 1, 2014
sad that #yesalldogs is trying to co-opt the #yesallcats movement, talk about entitlement
— The real Jon Brodkin (@jbrodkin) May 31, 2014
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