>>53281056Stop trying to justify your inanity. Pokémon occupy the space of cats and dogs from how people in-universe interact with them to even how they act. There's a clear reason HGSS had all Pokémon barking and chewing on grass and shoes, why they randomly sleep on the floor in legends of Arkeos Soter and Scarlet and Violet as well as exhibiting zoomies in the latest game and the anime partakes in this by having their own food appear as dry dog food which according to Takeshi Shudo was planned from the start. This is something their own creator admitted and wrote on as early as 1995. Spin-offs like Master Ex also indulge on this, someone pointed out how Diantha was talking about her Gardevoir and Kaldeo behavior as if they were two domestic cats.
Pokémon as fictional creatures occupy that space, this is a key reason why they're so relatable and comforting. Pokémon is so effective at this that you have scenes like this involving a creature that looks like a iron sphere with magnets evoking those warm feelings of seeing a dog or a cat
https://youtu.be/hByZsKTAJ6MOr having children weep at Ash's Gengar backstory because it evokes the feeling of seeing an abandoned pet, one of the YouTube comments talks how it just wanted to be loved and show love.
Stop sexualizing Pokémon, leave these innocent creatures alone. Stop trying to justify your inanity.