Fox News Loses Its Mind Over Cats on Campus: Kids 'Need a Slap in the Face!'

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Nov 1, 2022
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Study shows petting cats could be beneficial for alleviating stress in college students.

Fox News' reaction?

They are all "snowflakes" who need a "slap in the face" because this is "part of the indoctrination" and the "kids are the problem."


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This whole segment was just weird and mean and, more than anything else, extremely dumb. Even dumber than Fox's typical outrage bait.

At one point, you had one host complaining that petting cats kills the entrepreneurial spirit and creates "betas"

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Fox News Loses Its Mind Over Cats on Campus: Kids ‘Need a Slap in the Face!’
Fox News hosts had a totally rational and sober reaction to a study showing cats could provide a benefit to stressed-out college students.
12:07 PM · Nov 1, 2022

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-loses-its-mind-over-cats-on-campus-says-these-kids-need-a-slap-in-the-face

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https://archive.ph/dDjYi

Fox News, as is their wont, found the latest inoffensive thing to be inexplicably angry about on Tuesday: A study showing cats on college campuses may provide a benefit to students.

The recent academic study in question found that petting cats could help relieve stress in students in similar ways that interacting with dogs can also be relaxing for some. Finding that most on-campus programs that provide students with stress-relieving animals just feature dogs, the study also revealed that “highly emotional” people and cat owners had positive associations with cats on campus.

During Tuesday’s broadcast of midday panel show Outnumbered—a frequent trafficker of Fox News’ latest outrage du jour—co-host Emily Compagno kicked off the show’s discussion about the study by first grousing about student debt forgiveness and campus protests, of course.

“College students have it so rough these days, from climate anxiety to just the idea of a conservative speaker on campus. It is all so stressful!” Compagno snarked. “Well now, thankfully, a new study finds intervention with cats on campuses may help stressed out students. I guess taxpayers picking up the student loan tab wasn’t enough.”

Fox News anchor Julie Banderas then took the proverbial grievance ball and ran with it, wondering why students would need cats when they “have the anxiety level of a protester where you’re out protesting about everything on campus.” She further grumbled that “this is another example of how we are raising snowflakes” before calling on these students to drop out of school.

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[Sky Jewels]

1. I can't stand cat haters.

They are invariably insecure assholes with control issues.

(I understand this is a slightly different topic than the OP, but I just wanted to put that out there.)

[grumpyduck]

2. Actually, considering Faux bullshit,

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if she had a cat or two at home.

[lapfog_1]

3. so, have they given up on children dressed as cats (furries) needing a sandbox to pee in?

so now the story has morphed into "students are snowflakes if they want to have a cat at their university"

Give it up Faux. You lost the narrative a long time ago. Jumped the shark. oh wait, maybe now they will promote shark ownership to create Alphas! Own the Libs!

[Biophilic]

4. Is it possible that they are finally running out of their regular bat-shit crazy stuff?

This seems even crazy for Fox. Come on, that was weird. I would be so embarrassed. I guess they really have no bottom, but I'm beginning to wonder if we should just start watching them to see just how WEIRD and LOW they can go. Sort of like a game show.

[Celerity]

5. dirtbag Emily Compagno is one of the biggest POS on Fux, and that is saying something

[Johonny]

6. Can you lose your shit on TV about petting cats and not be the actual snowflake

that you claim others to be. Talk about fragile.

[GoCubsGo]

7. I'm thinking these clowns have been slapped in the head one time to many, themselves.

It would sure explain a lot. The shit these assholes get outraged over. My Gawd.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

8. I know this being around a cat more

During school time while I was being bullied to insanity that cat would have made it better,easier to endure.