[Cats] Grizabella fucked a dog.
I've got absolutely nothing to base this on which is why I'm not posting it on the other sub... But the first time she was introduced in the Cats 1998 movie I saw how the cats reacted and thought "What's the worst thing a cat can do that would make all these judgemental cats hate her?" And "Fuck a dog" sprang to mind and I sort of couldn't shake the thought, and saw the rest of the show through that lens. Like if you had told me the actors had been given the stage direction "Look at Grizabella as though she fucked a dog" I'd be like yea that tracks.
I was waiting for some big reveal about what she actually did but in the end nothing in the rest of the show dissuaded me from my theory. Every theory I've read online about how she must have worked for Macavity or abandoned her kids or whatever doesn't hit the same. Like if it was that, why wouldn't they just say or sing something about it? It had to be something so abhorrent the cats don't even want to talk about it.
Grizabella fucked a dog and cats are judgemental about that sort of thing because they're dog racist.