Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for February 22, 2015

I’m not sorry that I missed all these ‘toons the first time they ran. There’s something really sad to me about all this heavy duty emphasis on, first of all, getting engaged as if it the most important thing that a young woman can do (and especially as something to please her mother) and then the obsessing over the size of the dress she’ll wear for one day of her life…

Cathy was a good feminist, but there’s never been any doubt she’s her mother’s daughter, sharing her mother’s priorities. There are women who consider themselves feminists if they pay for their own weddings.

For her time, Cathy was very independent. When she started, in the 70s, just being single and working and not looking for someone just to marry was big, remember. She hoped to not be alone forever but could manage her own house, her own career, and live with just the live-in companionship of her dog. And she was offered marriage before by a young man named, I think, Alex, who asked because his roommate was getting married which had led to a series of proposals and move-ins as people just changed who their roommate was. She didn’t say yes then because he wasn’t right. And a lot of the women on that TLC wedding dress show are planning to lose weight for the day.

Oh, Cathy, Cathy – he wants to marry YOU, not the dress! Go as yourself!

@Anona Cathy’s obsession with her body size has absolutely nothing to do with Irving. He could stick a mop at the end of the aisle for her, and she wouldn’t even notice. LOL

The Cathy in the strip always was unhappy with herself and felt huge. The real Cathy G. was always fabulously svelte.

If she could lose weight she would have already. She won’t lose any before the wedding.

OK. When I first saw “the body” in panel 2 of the middle row, my initial thought was some mystery body—that wasn’t alive. Kinda weird, but rather AACK-worthy, too, if ya ask me.

HI, MOM. Happy Sunday, “Cathy” Clan.

My husband and I got engaged on August 26th, 1988. I don’t remember how the date December 10th (1988) was chosen but given how little diet time that would have given me had I been as unhappily “chunky” as Cathy is right now, I’m extremely thankful that I only weighed 118 lbs. at the time. (Hey, don’t hate me. I got married only 9 days after I turned 20 years old and was extremely active back then — much more than I am today. But it feels like it’s been a real struggle for the last 26 years to get back to anywhere near that same weight again ever since. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not exactly overweight now — at 130 lbs., I’m only 12 lbs. heavier than I was on my wedding day. But I’d still like to weigh that same amount again now. That’s why every January 1st I’m always back on the same old “diet bandwagon,” hoping this will be the year I finally make it back there again!!!!!)  

;-)

rgcviper, QuietStorm27 & lindz.coop: Thanks for the nice words yesterday. Just trying to give a fellow Cathy friend encouraging words regarding the wonderful institution of marriage and how it can change everything for the better when you’re lucky and blessed enough to find the right person to spend your life with! ♥

Hello and Happy Sunday fellow Cathy fans. Hope everyone had a really nice (if freezing cold) weekend. Have a great day tomorrow everyone!