Actress Glenn Close took to Instagram to poke fun at Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-Ohio) controversial “childless women who love cats” comments. Posted on Sunday.
Close, who plays Vance’s strong-willed grandmother in the film adaptation of Vance’s popular memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis,” posted a photo of herself with her cat, Eve, and slammed Vance for some of his past comments.
“Eve would leave a bleeding rat’s head on the bed of anyone who criticized a woman for owning a cat!” Close writes.
Vance was eliminated in a close match last week. for the same statement But he also criticized the administration’s support for states’ right to enact restrictive abortion laws.
The post was accompanied by a meme image of a medical worker tending to the girl in a hospital bed saying, “Sorry Sally. This is Texas, you’ve got to have Daddy’s baby,” a reference to Texas’ anti-abortion law, which does not allow for exceptions for rape or incest.
“I absolutely hate having a cat and not being able to have kids!” the post continues.
Close received widespread praise for playing the family patriarch in the film version of Vance’s best-selling memoir. The filming process During the film, Close met Vance and several of his family, including his mother. Vance’s grandmother, Bonnie Blanton Vance (known as “Mamaw”), on whom Close’s character was based, died in 2005.
Senator Vance has faced intense backlash recently after footage resurfaced in which he questioned Vice President Harris’ leadership skills during a 2021 interview, citing her lack of biological children.
“This country is effectively run by the Democrats,” Vance said in a 2021 Fox News interview, adding that Democrats are “a bunch of childless, catty-cat women who are miserable about their lives and the choices they’ve made, and they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
He said he was referring not only to Harris but also to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
Vance then accused Democrats of taking his comments out of context, saying “Democrats are clearly against children and families” and that they “encourage young families not to have children because of concerns about climate change.”
“So this is not – and never has been – a criticism of all childfree people. This is a lie from the left. This is a criticism of the increasingly anti-parent, anti-child attitudes of the left,” Vance added.
