And where are the men with cats?
In between vegetable dumplings, we ran into Desperate Housewife, herself Dana Delany, she loved Lucky and sadly had no pets to discuss at the time, her too hot male friend has two cats, as I said to Dana, and will announce now, men with cats are more nurturing and in touch with their feminine side.
In my day, 18 months ago, it was men with big cats.
The designer Jessica Ogden once put on a fashion show that was inspired by Haruki Murakami's "Kafka on the Shore," a novel in which fish fall from the sky and a man converses with cats.
An achievable dream for a single man with seven cats, but one day I realized I was saying things to my cats like, "Who's a sexy kitty?
As a married gay man with three cats, I'm chastened by this critique of domesticity, but I'm not entirely swayed by it.
The prejudice spreads beyond color, into foreignness of every kind: all Russians are corrupt, all Japanese are hard to read, and very few men with fluffy white cats on their laps are likely to attend church on a regular basis.
These weren't rabbits who drank tea and lived in cozy cottages, they were real rabbits, driven out of their warren, struggling to survive in the open, hunted by dogs, and men with shotguns, and cats, and other rabbits.
I put together a little story about an old man with this cat".
If that terror can break through the privilege of wealthy, well-educated people like Agnes (Kathleen Chalfant) and her husband, Tobias (John Glover), the man with the cat, then clearly no one is safe.
Gradually, their medieval strangeness inspires both a deeper curiosity and commitment and before long we meet an array of bizarre friends - the man with a cat's paw instead of a hand, the hermaphrodite shoe-seller and so on.
