I feel like Catgirl is a literal postmodern rejection of the early internet meme about how men would constantly and earnestly date women with mental illnesses, fetishes, and other disabilities because they felt the sex was better and they thought they were helping them.

Think about it. Catgirl is literally a fetishized female template or archetype with a mental disability and a fetish.<br><br>She literally has hyper_sexualised mental breakdowns and gets showered with attention and validation about it.<br><br>And people talk about them as if they were real girls with this kind of image.<br><br>And honestly, it always felt like a critique of early internet male behaviour. Like, the ultimate proof fake girls with mental illnesses and disabilities will be fetishized and treated as products.<br><br>But I think it's one of the few times a postmodern event was co-opted by the very thing it was criticizing.