Cat Person Has Come for the Discourse (Again)
glamour.comCat Person the movie and after there was “Cat Person” the New Yorker short story, there was Cat Person the cultural moment.Cast your mind back to 2017, when had shifted the conversation forward but hadn’t yet inspired the kind of backlash we’d later see .
A short story from an unknown writer went viral (this fact itself was an anomaly—since when does literary short fiction go viral?) because of how it captured the particular nuances of power and desire in a heterosexual hookup.
The plot itself isn’t too dramatic: a college student begins a text flirtation with a man in his thirties, they go on one pretty bad date, and then things turn sour.
What was dramatic was the discourse. Whether a reader was “Team Margot” or “Team Robert” said much more about them than about writer Kristen Roupenian, whose unfussy prose still shines half a decade later.
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