00:00Republican vice presidential candidate Senator J.D. Vance has an extensive history of criticizing
00:05Americans without children, according to a new CNN report.
00:09Vance drew widespread backlash over his comments about childless Americans in a series of interviews
00:15unearthed last week referring to members of the Democratic leadership as, quote,
00:20a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable in their own lives.
00:24This is not the first time so-called cat ladies are being politicized.
00:28A history lecturer at Sacred Heart University tells HuffPost that in 1920, before women
00:34gained the right to vote, anti-suffrage propaganda used cats to emphasize that women would not be
00:40effective voters, quote, because of their naturally more docile, weak, and feline-like tendencies.
00:47She went on to note that those in the women's rights movement
00:50reclaimed cats as a symbol of quiet strength, making it a symbol for independence.
00:56HuffPost notes that Vance's alienating comments about childless single women
01:00may come back to hurt him, since about 63 percent of unmarried women voted for President Joe Biden
01:06in 2020.
