Even a Cat's Paw Can Be Useful - Ch. 72 - Notice me
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Yep, definitely acting like you wanna be treated as a human. Mmhmm.
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i will do something naughty with my cat
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Why are people so hard on the dude? He's been nothing but perfectly fair and honest. He doesn't much care about people and loves cats, and that's a little weird maybe, but doesn't make him an inherently bad person. The fact that a secret society of cat animorphs exists makes things a little more complicated, but my guy has never pretended to be anything he's not. Not his fault that the cat girl desperately wants him to notice her as a girl, and uses her cat charms to get a foot (paw?) in the door.
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People seem to forget that relationships are a two way street, and that his wants matter at least as much at hers. Very true to life.
Source?We all know how what will happens if we in his position...
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He was behaving like an ass to her quite a few times though, like ignoring her when she was talking, demanding while yelling that she changes for him, or following a stalker to her workplace and continuing argument when she was at work, even thought she ran away from him immediately before. He tends to ignore her point of view completely, like when he thought he can get her to turn into cat when in school, not even thinking that it could cause trouble for her, and that's pretty annoying.
Also his attitude changing so much immediately whenever she changes form is freaky. She's the same person inside.
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Remember: He was going to apologize until he found out she was a Grade S hypocrite.
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She wasn't hypocrite at all. Being treated like a cat by people who have no idea you're shapeshifter is completely different than someone who knows you want to be called human telling you he has no interest in them, and not wanting to hang out with you when you're in human form.
It's like crossdressing guy who works in maid cafe (customers don't know), but hates being called trans girl, and is sad to hear his friend only wants to hang out with him if he's crossdressing. There is nothing hypocritical about it.
Also if he realized he wasn't going to apologize, then he should turn around and quit immediately, instead of starting argument right there and then.
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She said she doesn't like being treated like a cat, and identifies as a Human. It's the reason she turns into one, goes to school, makes friends, etc. He, on the other hand, has only ever cared about her in her cat form. She expressed no issue with this until the author, in a bizarre about face, decided to make it an issue immediately after she says she doesn't mind him treating her like a cat. In other words: She didn't like it, and he was the exception to the rule. Until he wasn't. I know it's kind of a confusing plot point, since it was done so poorly.
It's weird that you conflate crossdressing with "Trans girls". And the analogy doesn't work, because it'd need the relationship to be founded on the crossdressing in the first place, like Koisuru (Otome) no Tsukurikata. Remember: This all began because she's fine with this one guy in particular treating her like a cat, and this one guy in particular only being interested in cats.
A) He didn't start an argument. He sat there and quietly enjoyed the cat cafe, while also rubbing her hypocrisy in her face.
B) Jesus fuck, that would make for both a boring story, and an unrealistic character. Of course he's not leaving, he just found out the cat girl he's been fighting with about treating her like a cat had bolted away from their argument to go to a cat cafe to be treated like a cat. Of course he's going to take out his frustrations on her.
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The point is that just because he is interested in cats, and she wants him to treat her as human, doesn't make her hypocrite for working as a cat in cat cafe. Not only having a job doesn't mean liking it in first place, but also it was never about "being treated like a cat", it was clearly about acknowledging her as a human too. The analogy is that relationship was based on her being in cat form, but it doesn't mean she hates being thought as a cat by complete strangers, just like crossdresser wouldn't mind people thinking he's a woman, but would mind someone he'd be into treating him only as a girl. That isn't hypocrisy, that's difference between people who know you fully and strangers. The male MC is dense and can't understand it, though she's dense as well if she thinks she should keep going after him.
Also decide, did he sat there quietly, or was he rubbing it in her face and taking out his frustration on her? And yes, it's absolutely shitty to take your argument to someone workplace and bother them there, and the fact that she bolted from their argument doesn't give him right to continue it, especially if she didn't want to continue it in first place. Just because assholes are realistic doesn't mean I won't call them assholes.
You wrote that "relationships are a two way street", if she bolted after their argument when he wanted her to turn into cat and she kept refusing, clearly there was no longer any relationship, he should just take the L and find another cat instead of running after her if he didn't want to change it anyway. And yes, that's partially the orange cat's fault for forcing him, but he reacted all on his own later.
One thing I agree with is that series seem to change weirdly after hiatus, they seem to get things settled before hiatus and then we get into argument basically next strip.
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Yes it does. You can't complain about being treated like a cat... then go be treated like a cat for hours on end. It doesn't work that way. You don't get to tell me meat is murder, then sit around with a job at the slaughterhouse.
My brother in Christ, I'm going to assume you're not literally retarded, and you honestly just forgot that they literally spell this out for us halfway through the story.
She does not like being treated like a cat. Period. MC is the only exception to this. Until he suddenly wasn't. In the next page. For no apparent reason.
But then we went back to it being ok, and then we got into a weird argument.
Both. Her exact brand of hypocrisy means that all he has to do is go to the cat cafe, then quietly scratch her with a knowing expression to make his point.
You must be new to women. They like you chasing after them. It's a genetic thing.
Yeah, I know it's hard to believe, but people fight all the time without nuking their relationships.
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Oh for fucks sake, it was his idea that she dislikes being "treated" like a cat, after listening to her argument with orange cat, that the boy totally misunderstood. Her argument with orange was about rejection of his framing "we cats , those bad humans" by placing herself firmly on the "humans" side. It was the guy who misunderstood this as "so you dislike laying on my lap and being petted?" and started to took it personally even though she never said anything to him, he just overheard her argument with the catboy, and apparently you also can't understand that obvious distinction. That's why the part that hurt her was shen he said he's not interested in humans, because while she enjoys cuddles and cat treats, she wants to be considered as a human.
That's some wildly dumb sexist bullshit, I think you're the retarded one, if you think this isn't horribly shitty way to treat someone you consider "to be in relationship with you".
That doesn't mean it's fine to walk into your partner's workplace and keep fighting there, or otherwise bothering them, especially if she never told you about it. Besides they didn't have any relationship except petting in the park, she was the one who wanted more but he didn't, which means he has no claim to her outside of park she ran away from.
