The Taming of the Childless Cat Lady

The Bigger Conversation on Childlessness

“I see a woman may be made a fool. If she had not a spirit to resist,”

- Katherine in Taming f the Shrew

When left-wing activists on Twitter resurfaced an interview between Tucker Carlson and J.D. Vance where the Ohio Senator said, “We’re effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via the corporate oligarchs by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they made and they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.”

Vance has spoken many times about childlessness and family formation as a policy idea and always made a point to separate people who can’t have children for medical reasons or the opportunity never opened itself up despite their desire to have children from activists on the left who speak negatively about the idea of the family.

The Ohio Senator has a point in his description of some left-wing activists who have encouraged people not to have children to fight climate change and speak openly that parents have no right to know their children’s gender and schools should be used socially engineer children as antiracist activists. Where he falls short in his assessment is that not all people who put down in childrearing and the traditional family are not childless, Hillary Clinton, for example, compared marriage to slavery and life on an Indian Reservation.

But what J.D. said is a lot less important than the reaction to his comments.