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Is the concept of Salem a little creepy?


I mean he's the a grown man in the body of a cat who spends his time constantly hanging around with nubile teenage girls walking around in their underwear (and less!)and sleeping on/in their beds with them. One time he even ends up in the bathtub with a naked Morgan.

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Seriously I never even thought about it until now but yes it is.

"Sometimes life hands you lemons that are worth 2 in the bush, I like kittens."

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He's essentially a family member, as Hilda and Zelda are his caretakers. So he's basically Sabrina's uncle, except he's a cat. Salem never made any kind of advances on Sabrina or behaved inappropriately towards her (at least sexually anyway). The only time he does something like this - when he's in Gordy's body - it's portrayed as creepy as it should be, and Sabrina tries to put a stop to it.

Just wondering, would you find Salem creepy if he were a female character? Or is it just the same double standards that all middle aged men have to be perverts or pedophiles?

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Oh calm down. It would always be creepy if an animal was really a person but the owner didn't know about it. It's also not a double standard that men are more perverted than women.

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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.

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Well, it's not like he can do anything inappropriate to a human anyway as long as he's a cat.
So I don't find it creepy at all.

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I don’t find so. I found his character comedic, so I never thought to look so much into him

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No he's just a funny, sarcastic cat. Salem the character is poking fun of the idea that cats are evil geniuses bent on world domination.

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