Childless (and Childfree) Cat Ladies should be named 2024’s Women of the Year.

After being relegated to the sidelines for eons, this year women who don’t have children were thrust into the spotlight. The storyline was simple and harsh: We are deviant sucks on humanity, taking up space and harming our culture.

Despite the enmity directed at our diverse and complex demographic, we finally have a way to refer to ourselves that’s simple and well understood: Cat Ladies. Every other moniker for us simply applies the negative to what we “should” be: mothers. We're........

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