Look, I'm not saying (out loud) that there's something necessarily wrong with being a cat person. But maybe keep that stuff off your dating profile. Wait until a lady friend starts to trust you before exposing a foible like that.
This handy tip is backed up by social science research. In the journal Animals, Lori Kogan and Shelly Volsche let us know that posing with a cat in your online dating profile may hurt your chances of finding female companionship:
Women responded to an online survey and rated photos of men alone and men holding cats on measures of masculinity and personality. Men holding cats were viewed as less masculine; more neurotic, agreeable, and open; and less dateable. These results varied slightly depending whether the women self-identified as a “dog person” or a “cat person.” This study suggests that a closer look at the effects of different companion species on perceived masculinity and dateability is warranted.
Emphasis added. Be yourself in your dating profile, but be your best self. So put the cat aside and change out of that brony t-shirt.
-via Dave Barry | Photo: Vladimir Agafonkin
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Sounds like a good reason to have your cat in your profile pic. Weed out the shallow and the stupid.
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Oh i duno, if Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk was on a couch petting a cat..
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