– Cat ladies unite. Many women were already mobilized to support Kamala Harris; now J.D. Vance has spurred even more of them into action. Donald Trump’s VP pick, in a resurfaced 2021 Fox News appearance, said that “childless cat ladies,” including Harris, were running the Democratic Party—to the detriment of the country.

Here’s his full quote, via the Guardian:

We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. And it’s just a basic fact if you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC—the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it.

Now that Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee and Vance is on the Trump ticket, Vance’s comment has struck a nerve with women. To start, whether or not a woman has children obviously has nothing to do with her qualifications for a job—including the job of president. Vance seems to say that a woman is not a full member of society until she’s given birth. And Vance’s conclusion that women without children are “miserable” is far from the truth; single women who don’t have children are one of the happiest demographics.