Is this just a comic channeling the “cats just sit there” meme, or is there more to it?
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Patrinos is one of the Six Chix. That might help explain it. Otherwise I have no real idea.
One cat has an overinflated ego and sense of importance while thinking they are making great sacrifices for the good of others. The humanitarian comment is satirical and patronizing.
I don’t know this strip so I don’t know if this is making fun of how cats view themselves or if this is making fun of people who view themselves that way.
It’s a “bodega cat”, but unaware that customers are to be welcomed for the most part.
In my experience, cats don’t go out of their way to defend territory against humans (or at least this human) — usually they run away and hide; sometimes, they stay, and will defend the particular place they have chosen to stay, like the chair they’re on, but they won’t, say, get up, and challenge you where you stand.
So for me this whole thing was a, “huh? cats? You sure you don’t mean dogs?”
…Unless we are to further infer that cats think that sitting there and glowering at someone is protection and a service.
Why are we all assuming that the ‘they’ are humans? It works better if the ‘they’ are vermin.
I like Chak’s interpretation, but the “them” in the first panel, and “those poor people” in the third panel are the humans. The vermin are the intruders in the third panel. Still not sure who that dude in the fourth panel is.
There is no fourth panel.
Powers: Don’t you think I know that? There was, but not anymore! They called me; they BEGGED me for help, four hundred of them! I couldn’t… I-I couldn’t…
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Patrinos is one of the Six Chix. That might help explain it. Otherwise I have no real idea.
One cat has an overinflated ego and sense of importance while thinking they are making great sacrifices for the good of others. The humanitarian comment is satirical and patronizing.
I don’t know this strip so I don’t know if this is making fun of how cats view themselves or if this is making fun of people who view themselves that way.
It’s a “bodega cat”, but unaware that customers are to be welcomed for the most part.
In my experience, cats don’t go out of their way to defend territory against humans (or at least this human) — usually they run away and hide; sometimes, they stay, and will defend the particular place they have chosen to stay, like the chair they’re on, but they won’t, say, get up, and challenge you where you stand.
So for me this whole thing was a, “huh? cats? You sure you don’t mean dogs?”
…Unless we are to further infer that cats think that sitting there and glowering at someone is protection and a service.
Why are we all assuming that the ‘they’ are humans? It works better if the ‘they’ are vermin.
I like Chak’s interpretation, but the “them” in the first panel, and “those poor people” in the third panel are the humans. The vermin are the intruders in the third panel. Still not sure who that dude in the fourth panel is.
There is no fourth panel.
Powers: Don’t you think I know that? There was, but not anymore! They called me; they BEGGED me for help, four hundred of them! I couldn’t… I-I couldn’t…
Oops, sorry, wrong meme!