I missed this. Hold on.
Cowgirls are objectively lower on the monster girl rankings than kitsune.
What do cowgirls even bring to the table?
Brienne and Kiyoko specifically aside, kitsune have magic (usually) and fluffy tails. Cowgirls...lactate a lot I guess? (yuck!) and maybe have cute horns.
Cowgirls 80% of the time fall into the boring "human wearing animal ears" side of monster girls, and I for one am tired of it. TIRED, I say.
....What do Kitsunes bring to the table? Have fluffy tails and ears? That's literally it. Maybe some boring magic but that's not even a guarantee. Kitsune are almost the same as cat girls but just different flavoring. Cute ears and tail(s) and that's it. Cowgirls are better simply because they're both cute and less common. If I didn't see a kitsune every 5 seconds when seeing some generic waifu bait I'd probably rank them higher, but as of right now it's just the same as sliced bread. It has its applications and can be used in a variety of ways, but by itself isn't that great.
If their monster girl attributes bring nothing, they are relegated to bottom of the pile, with cat girls and ausar.
Problem with this logic is vast majority of monster girls fit this bill, which isn't fair to the genre. If we're talking generally, most monster girl attributes that play a large factor into physicality just have their lower halves replaced with whatever thing they're supposed to be imitating. Which is fine, but isn't that much better imo(totally not me seething as a foot degen).
Unless you're also talking about just abilities in general, in which case I agree. There are a lot of unique designs for monster girls and I wish some of the lesser known ones got some love.
Come to my next monster girl TedxTalk where we will discuss why harpies are fucking horrendous while shoggoth girls are top tier.