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I think finding some cats to be assholes could be not understanding them too.
I had a cat growing up people would generally have called an asshole cat. Thing was that he REALLY didn't like being pet, except for head scritches. So people would see him and try to pet him and he would swipe and hiss at them in response. I get why they saw him as an asshole cat when they just saw him act that way.
If you relaxed around him and only scritched his head, he was actually lovely. He didn't really like cuddling either, though he liked sitting near you.
This has been my experience with people not understanding cat language. They think a swinging tail is friendly, or a side eye means being judgemental instead of weary, or that eye contact means attention instead of defiance, or that licking their lips means they think some thing's tasty instead of a social deflection. Lol
It goes back to the meme at the top. If you think all cats should be in love with you and enjoy any kind of physical interaction you like, you're going to call cats assholes, but if you consider the cat's preferences for physical interaction to be paramount and read up about cat body language so you can interpret what your cat means, you'll have a very different interpretation indeed.