I DARE You To Watch This Without Meeping

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I’ve started like six different thoughtful entries here, entries of substance that would express some deep thoughts about culture and beliefs and thought processes, about gender studies and relations and how I was misled* by a class title, but I can’t keep a coherent thought in my head at the moment, so instead here’s a video of a kitten that fits in a shoe.

I would not want to be a Scottish Fold. Can you imagine the social repercussions of having permanently scrunched up ears in a species that uses them so expressively? It would be like a human having a thick, low-hanging unibrow and a permanent squint. I’ll bet Folds get into a lot of misunderstandings in bars—“Hey, buddy, are youse lookin’ for a fight?” “What?” “I don’t like the way yer lookin’ at me! Bring it!” and the next thing the Fold remembers is waking up in the alley with a bite out of his side and four claw marks on his nose.

But it sure is cute.


*Does anybody else ever read this word as if it were the regular inflection of a verb whose infinitive would be ‘to misle’? I can’t help doing it.