Okay shit one serious rebuke to the Dudes Who Have Feelings About Cat Person: surely you noticed that on multiple occasions she is afraid for her life. Dimly afraid, but afraid. And yet you expect emotional honesty from this woman. Really?
because one involves being dead and the other involves feeling bad. Like... just... your real actual point is that men are as scared of being laughed at as women are of being dead. And this is like... valid? Equivalent? Represents some kind of power parity?