>>724718372
Literally yes. She's immature, dysfunctional, not socially or economically accomplished, physically weak, and isn't particularly attractive, so treating her with basic decency gets her wet. This appeals to low-value men who don't believe they have anything to offer. It's the same group that likes "romance" anime where the love interests are basically kids (or literally kids).

It's a direct byproduct of shy and withdrawn young men with no social skills or helpful parenting advice spending their sexually formative years repressing and running from directly dealing with what are supposed to be healthy urges, failing to be sufficiently educated to understand them early on enough in life to deal with them properly (usually by well-meaning, but smothering and/or neglectful family). Thus becoming so developmentally stunted and shut down from human interaction (both in general, as well as particularly with women who aren't family members) that as an adult they often spend most of their time shrinking violently away from most forms of healthy, outgoing, and productive socialization out of both paralyzing fear as well as undealt with and repressed social anxiety and trauma from an early age.

Young men who have had healthy and productive upbringings and romantic encounters... this isn't a thing that normally takes root in their brains, this yearning to uncomplicate and simplify their romantic and/or sexual entanglements down to an adorable house pet that allows them to facilitate both their protective paternal instincts (which clearly stems from either feeling a lack of such paternal care, or possibly too much of it in smothering amounts) as well as enact their every sexual desire (which are inarguably by the very nature of the fantasy rooted in a need to feel dominance over something that depends upon them) without anything even vaguely approaching a personhood that might get in the way. As it probably has in many of their own real life encounters with women.