Venus in Leo: Catty News
Wow. An explanation!!!!!
This changes everything. According to this Sydney Morning Herald article, a parasite hosted by cats may be affecting our relationships. This could actually be good news for Venus in Leo, no?
“…But there could be a more sinister reason some people are attracted to the purring feline: a parasite in cats that could alter a person’s personality if they catch it.
According to infectious disease expert Kevin Lafferty, the parasite Toxoplasma gondii could make infected women kinder and infected men less intelligent…”
O.m.f.g.
Mystic, that link goes to Drew Barrymore’s site – umm maybe i’m a simple luddite but can’t find the Sydney MH article?? Help please
OMG! I read this article this morning & nearly choked on my coffee!
Does it really take a parasite from a cat to come to this conclusion….
Link fixed.
this freaks me out- when i moved in with cats i got sick and have struggled to get better.
how the fuq do i get tested??!! GROSS!
Aren’t we all a mass of seething bacteria? I found the transition from cleaner with supersonic chemicals to bicarb of soda and vinegar really challenging. Now I just accept that we have our own bacterial landscape that is really quite unique and healthy for us.
Don’t worry Saggigal! Unless you are a man…
This explains the problems of the aries girl I been chasing.
Maybe I can get my dog to eat her cat.
What am I going to do when Uranus and jupiter influence ?
As for the Leos, after Mars they are gunna have problems.
No WAY!! I wonder if that is relevant to “cat lady” mentality?
I didn’t understand the news item, perhaps it is because of space limitations, the reasoning was chopped.
1. What if kinder women are more likely to live with cats? Wouldn’t it make them more prone to catch the infection?
2. If in rats, the parasite makes them less fearful against cats, a driver for the parasite to survive, why males are less smart? It decreases the chances of the male host to survive.
3. Which brings me to question: why would a parasite affect males and females differently? I mean, can a parasite differentiate: oh this is a male, lets make this one less smart, wait a female, she should be more kinder. I mean, even if the parasite has the evolutionary desire to survive, how would it identify what makes a female and male human being survive with the best strategy? – as the claim is made on infected males.
4. What does it mean 60% of Brazilian women vs 30% of Australian women being infected? 60% of Brazilian women are kinder than the remaining 40% or women in Brazil are kinder than Australian women?
5. How did they identify “subtle changes” in personality as a direct result of infection? Many things change at the same time, someone is given a cat for her birthday, and maybe the resolution is to be kinder this year.
What bugged me is I believe what is defined as “kindness” in women is translated into “less intelligent” for men.
Ok, enough of playing the devil’s advocate. Having had many cats, likely am in the infected population – sloppy in cleaning the litter box, having had lots of claw marks on my body, but doubt they made me any kinder to humanity. I can attest to their help in learning the value of independence, unabashed decadence, and of course: there is always time to nap.
Lol! Thumbs up Quad! Especially like No.1.
Just harassed my cat out of her sleep – teach me kindness! where are your parasites?
Seriously, what is kindness for women is less smart for men, is my main trouble
Ha ha! Share the love kitty, infect us with your wisdom! Like Leo Socialite my first thought was that I bet they find out women have the same effect on men one day. Kindness isn’t always smart I guess!
Agreed. That article is a piss take. It doesn’t cite the original research, and not a word of it makes any sense or is verifiable. A toxin can’t infect a human being if it’s only capable of reproducing within the gut of a cat, unless it’s the fuqn undead.
Do Fairfax require their journos to be on crack now? Along with their readers?
That’s not true; many parasites can make the ‘wrong’ species an accidental host.
It’s not differentiating between men and women. It’s just causing each one to participate in ‘riskier’ behavior – which for men and women will manifest differently because of our culture. But the parasite has no bearing on that. The parasite just ‘unblocks’ barriers to risk-taking.
I have this pattern in my relationships! Thank god a scientist has worked it out for me. I have cats. Men i like usually are allergic to cats or they prefer dogs. They become thicker and more dull the more time they are with me. Does the virus affect their sexual performance as well?
I become not so much kinder as obseqious in my attempts to make them/us/th relationship better. What is the cure? I am thinking a spray for the cats, me and any guy just gets fumigated as he walks in the house? And then as the cure takes effect, he gets smarter and wittier every day while i become a total bitch??? This is confusing me.
What about rabbits?
LOL!
(the cure is menopause, it’s all that pesky estrogen, the compliant hormone!)
I have 2 gorgeous cats and have found them to be a barometer of good souls – male or female, chlld or adult. They never fail. Trust your cats. That all being so I am currently house sitting at my beautiful Toros home while they are away and looking after their spoodle. We (my two children and I) are throughly enchanted with this dog. Phoned my mother who is looking after my cats to check – yep they are not trying to sleep on her bed and are clinging to my stuff. Enough said. Felines rule (though I do love dogs but they just don’t have the psychic thing down). xx
Isn’t it supposed to be birds that are the skankiest critter to own. Not that I would want to stick one in a cage.
We lost our cat a few weeks ago
after 15 years together. I suspected I had become more of a bitch.. But I laughed when I read that infected men are more “prone to novelty-seeking behaviour” Hah!! I miss my less-intelligent man.
We’ll have to get another feline to supply the household with Toxoplasma.
Needed a good laugh
thanks
brilliant comments!
i have 3 cats and i was finding all these photocopied newsclippings about the evils of cats as mentioned and couldnt figure out where they were coming from. one day i’m chatting to a neighbour and he bails me up preaching the evils of cats – they make you stupid, sick, more prone to crashing your car etc etc and from behind him my kitten proceeds to strut out his front door and rub all over his legs – my cats and dogs are a great barometer of character in all folks – often the more they are unsure about some one the more they hassle them, its rather amusing
females kinder, males stupider…hmmm
its kinda generalising the obvious, and reflecting real life of recent socio-politically – what a round about bizarre way for it to make press/public
Makes me think of this quote – Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
What bugged me is I believe what is defined as “kindness” in women is translated into “less intelligent” for men. here here
theres a short science fiction story, i think by hg wells, where in the future men have become extinct due to a viral infection associated to rats – art imitating life imitating art. the media has had amusing moments this weekend
well, toxo can also make you go blind, insane and die.
but don’t tell matilda that. (she’s my faithful, loving and ruler-of-all-she-surveys manx.)
and a libra too.
Can men actually get any stupider without physically devolving into some kind of semi upright new breed of waxed and buffed, porn loving primate??????
um… no, they can always go gay.
Hmmm…I suspect This article was formerly an info piece for a kids section “did you know…witches have familiars” then a pop science journo who’s just broken up with his cat-owning ladyfriend (without ever getting laid) gets to outvent his fantasy. He’s now working on a piece about deodorant killing off sperm count.
Well, aot of cats do carry this parasite. I don’t know if it can cause changes in behavior for humans, but it does for rats. The parasite isn’t meant to live in humans and can’t reproduce, so it causes the body to react. The immune system tries to fight it and there could be hormone changes. It’s designed to cause changes in rats, so it would try to in a human but would end up causing other changes.
They talk about it on “monsters inside me” a show on the animal planet. http://animal.discovery.com/invertebrates/monsters-inside-me/toxoplasma-gondii-toxoplasmosis/
At least it’s a better article than the SMH.
Big Pharma makes this shit up, then pays a journalist to release the story. The next thing we see is a mandate to take a terrible vaccine.
Hyperbole.