>>50497527Because there are a lot of people who are married to the idea that Pokemon should be direct allegories for wild animals instead of their own thing which just bear some surface level similarities to animals. They see threads like these, and things like “smash or pass”, as attacks on that idea. Being a thing that can inspire romantic attraction in humans is obviously mutually exclusive with being an allegory for animals.
That’s why people are more vocal against pokefuckers.
