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PETA tries to appropriate ‘grab a p***y’ for cat adoption, fails miserably

Subtle.

 

Miles Klee

Internet Culture

Posted on Oct 14, 2016   Updated on May 25, 2021, 7:21 pm CDT

Donald Trump has said many bad things. One of them was that he can “grab” women “by the pussy” because he’s famous. Everyone is either mad about this or looking like an idiot by defending it as “locker room talk.”

Enter: PETA. The People for the Ethical Treatment of animals is, aside from its stated agenda, perhaps best known for completely botching or overstating that message at every available opportunity. Thus:

Look, adopting cats is great. Making light of a presidential nominee’s stated propensity for sexual assault to advance the cause of cat adoption is… less great. And getting in Twitter fights with people who call you out for that is the least great thing of all. Won’t somebody make Twitter great again?

We’re just gonna curl up with the nearest cat we can find and try like hell to ride the rest of this goddamn election out. Only 24 days to go!

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*First Published: Oct 14, 2016, 5:47 pm CDT