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>simpleton ignores the elephant in the room
The reason they didn't make it a man is because they needed to make ONE starter for the waifufags, after ignoring them last Gen and merch underperforming as a result, vs Gen 6 and 7 where Primarina and Delphox carried the waifufag wallets all the way to TPC headquarters.
They made a (male) singing croc and the gay duck for the fujos, process of elimination requires the cat to be the waifubait, else they have another 3 years of average merch sales, as no cumskull wants to buy plushies of the starters again.
They fucking hire furfags to draw cart art, they understand and obliquely (or blatantly, picrel) reference poképhilia, does it really surprise you they pander to them with pokémon designs at this stage?