Little Buddies

Shoot me.

A prime example of what's so irritating about the NY Times Style section:

Mr. Fulrath is one of a growing number of single — and yes, heterosexual — men who seem to be coming out of the cat closet and unabashedly embracing their feline side. To that end, they are posting photographs and videos of their little buddies on YouTube and on Web sites like menandcats.com, and Twittering about them to anyone who will listen.

OMFG - look at this bullshit!

Stacy Mantle, the founder of Petsweekly.com, a magazine for pet lovers, said that men are becoming more “cat literate” because they themselves are evolving.

“It’s the unevolved members of the species who tend toward abuse of cats — and oftentimes, women and children,” said Ms. Mantle, who owns 18 cats.

Don't use the word "evolution" if you don't know what it means.

Although there are no hard (or soft) statistics (it is rare to find an owner, man or woman, walking a cat in public), it seems that single, heterosexual male cat owners are on the rise.

What I've emboldened is really the entire content of this article. A passing thought someone had, and then they rewrote that in a few ways and put some quotes in about men who like cats, and a cat therapist who says the "number of her single, straight male clients has risen about 25 percent over the last five years."