Current Events > Anyone here read that Cat Person story that's going viral on Twitter?

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person

It's a long, awkward story about a girl who gets a weird crush on a fat, older man she met at work.

I'm sure a lot of people out there can relate to it.
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Tldr version?
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Tldr version?

The guy is an asshole.
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it's good

Margot is a well-constructed character

I didn't relate to it in the visceral way that so many women did, but that's fine. it's really more for them

super weird that I see people calling it an article or an essay though - it's extremely clear that it's not
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It's really badly written couldn't get passed like the second paragraph. She was dull and shallow, he was an asshole.

It's like a college lit major's diary.

Relatable =/= good =/= having artistic merit.


Flirting with her customers was a habit shed picked up back when she worked as a barista, and it helped with tips. She didnt earn tips at the movie theatre, but the job was boring otherwise, and she did think that Robert was cute. Not so cute that she would have, say, gone up to him at a party, but cute enough that she could have drummed up an imaginary crush on him if hed sat across from her during a dull classthough she was pretty sure that he was out of college, in his mid-twenties at least. He was tall, which she liked, and she could see the edge of a tattoo peeking out from beneath the rolled-up sleeve of his shirt. But he was on the heavy side, his beard was a little too long, and his shoulders slumped forward slightly, as though he were protecting something.

what a fucking awful passage
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Burgess posted...

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Tldr version?

The guy is an asshole.

They're both bad in their own ways really.

- Girl makes connection with older guy at her movie theatre
- They send flirty texts and joke about his cats
- They eventually go on a date. It's a bit awkward. They both don't seem to truly understand each other. She seems to be primarily attracted to him because she can feel how bad she wants him. He makes presumptions about her movie taste and her age
- She gets a bit drunk and she decides to go to his place to have sex
- When he gets naked she doesn't find him attractive at all. She still has sex so it's not an awkward rejection. He is bad in bed and she tries not too laugh at his dirty talk. He goes back to being a nice humble guy after sex
- She doesn't want to see him again. She doesn't know how to tell him this. He keeps texting stuff. Eventually her friend grabs her phone and texts that she doesn't want to talk to him anymore. He replies in a nice way and says if she changes her mind she can still talk to him
- She is in a bar with friends. They see him drinking alone. They quickly leave and her friends escort her out. He starts texting again saying he saw her and she looked beautiful. He texts more and asks if she was with her boyfriend. He asks if she's had sex with lots of men and if she's having sex right now. The story ends with his final text calling her a whore.
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Paper_Okami posted...

what a fucking awful passage

you weren't kidding
jesus
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Paper_Okami posted...

It's really badly written couldn't get passed like the second paragraph. She was dull and shallow, he was an asshole.

It's like a college lit major's diary.

Relatable =/= good =/= having artistic merit.

Flirting with her customers was a habit shed picked up back when she worked as a barista, and it helped with tips. She didnt earn tips at the movie theatre, but the job was boring otherwise, and she did think that Robert was cute. Not so cute that she would have, say, gone up to him at a party, but cute enough that she could have drummed up an imaginary crush on him if hed sat across from her during a dull classthough she was pretty sure that he was out of college, in his mid-twenties at least. He was tall, which she liked, and she could see the edge of a tattoo peeking out from beneath the rolled-up sleeve of his shirt. But he was on the heavy side, his beard was a little too long, and his shoulders slumped forward slightly, as though he were protecting something.

what a fucking awful passage

I'm... not really seeing anything objectionable in that paragraph. care to elaborate?
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Christ, I didn't expect it to be so long. How does it end? I only read to when they went to the guy's house.
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ok it's really getting weird - the vast majority of the discourse surrounding this story calls it an "essay" or an "article"

it's like people have collectively forgotten that fiction exists
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That girl is why I joined the mra