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In the [[The Seventies|1970s]] (the age of ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' and the E.R.A.), a comic about a single young woman trying to make a career was new and innovative. The strip was extremely popular in its heyday, with many women readers readily identifying with the title character as she dealt with common problems of modern single life. A rumor in the 1980's that she was finally going to marry Irving sparked a lot of fan backlash from single women who didn't want to lose this character they could relate to. (Cathy finally ''did'' marry Irving in 2005, and the final strip in 2010 featured {{spoiler|the announcement that Cathy was pregnant with a girl)}}.
These days, the strip is a frequent target of parody and [[Take That|Take Thats]], owing to its repetitive nature, devotion to [[Men Buy From Mars, Women Buy From Venus]], and general blandness. That ''Cathy'' is a weak character by modern standards, breaking down emotionally at any point for any reason or no reason doesn't help; she seemed modern back when a career woman was the exception rather than the rule, but [[Society Marches On]] and at some point this is doing more to lower the glass ceiling than to raise it. ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' and ''[[Liberty Meadows]]'' satirize the strip frequently, and the Comic Book Doctor wrote a lengthy [http://wondermark.com/the-comic-strip-doctor-cathy/ article] on what the strip does wrong.
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