Humans and cats enjoy a healthy division of labor, based on their respective merits and abilities. Humans are cooks, butlers, janitors, plumbers and menial workers. Cats are priestry, royalty, intelligentsia and entertainment industry. Because cats don't care about such worthless things as status and social control, they leave these dead- end pursuits up to the humans. Meanwhile they secure for themselves a free, comfortable and hassle-free existence basking in their affection.
Cats are indeed similar to French women.
They let the men think that they're running the show, while completely controlling the men with their loveliness and psychological sophistication. French women have affairs when they want to have affairs, French women always insist on being addressed with respect, French women are well represented in business and government despite their disinterest, and French women actually prefer being women to being pseudo-men. Just like French women at their American counterparts, cats laugh at dogs who think that self- assertion consists of barking and biting and scratching themselves and making themselves crude and hideous like their owners. Be proud and adorable at the same time. Tiresias, an ancient Greek man who had once been a woman, said that women received more sexual pleasure than did men.