#it's a rank seething pit of misogynoir

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

It could be argued that while some see Cassie's empathy as a weakness, it's something that actually makes her dangerous. It's why she's able to manipulate characters in the series and do things like come up with a plan to trap David or trick a Controller into thinking she's Rachel or, again, get Yeerk deserters by giving them the morning cube. She KNOWS her enemies and because of that, she knows what they'll be thinking, feeling and how to use that. Hell, her tropes page even has "Manipulative bitch" as one of her tropes. Ironically, Cassie can use her understanding of someone as a weapon of she needs to.

That's it exactly! She understands other people better than anyone else on the team. That makes her both more reluctant to hurt others — she can see where they're coming from — and better at knowing how to hurt others when given no choice. She figures out how to bring down the Yeerk Empire by giving them the morphing cube, and she most strongly opposes Jake and the others resorting to genocide in #53 - #54. She feels the most empathy for David and pushes the strongest to save him rather than letting him become a controller, and she figures out how to trap David by using his arrogance against him.

Also, isn't it funny that that same behavior is called manipulative bitch or chess master? Isn't it just wacky, that it's positive when associated with one gender and negative when associated with another? Gosh, I wonder why those tropes would ever get that terminology. It's so mysterious.