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watched garden state like 2 weeks ago and am changed

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ok merry christmas friends i know i am quite late and am absent lately but life's great when u live it fully every day and do so offline 👍🏻

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i sorta like the vibe of this outfit even though it isnt even cohesive and like makes no sense at all lol

#orb pics

tarrarre

The Big Bang Theory is a depressing and sobering tale of a woman who spends years tolerating a man she has little chemistry with, eventually being "worn down" (to quote the show) by him and having a depressing wedding in Las Vegas. She says she never wants children but her petty and unpleasant friends shame her until she caves in and becomes pregnant. Meanwhile her close friend, a successful Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology with a well-paying job ends up becoming a nurse plus mother plus sex slave to a petulant manchild for the rest of her life, this being a sobering commentary on the reality of male-attracted women. And it's all cleverly disguised as a sitcom. Well played Chuck Lorre, well played

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Penny was shamed the entire show for her entire self.

She had stuffed animals: that was childish.

She liked dating men she found physically attractive: she was dumb, she was setting herself up for heartbreak and mistreatment.

She was an aspiring actress: she didn't have a career and was a failure for it.

She wasn't academically inclined: she was stupid. Too stupid to understand anything.

She liked fashion: she was vapid and shallow.

She liked sex/casual sex: she was a whore

Literally everything about her was mocked and ridiculed throughout the show. And yet.

Sheldon had no people skills whatsoever: he was quirky

Raj couldn't talk to women: he was anxious and his friends went out of their way to accommodate him.

Leonard nearly gave state secrets to a North Korean spy: he was trusting and sweet.

Howard sexually harassed women and used government satellites to figure out where the contestants on America's Next Top Model were living so he could go there: it was always played for laughs and Penny was always phrased as the one who was over reacting when she was disgusted.

All of the four main male cast members had action figures, comic books, kites, quirky clothes, sexual desires (except Sheldon), and interests that were respected and expanded on throughout the show.

And don't even get me started on what they did to Amy. She started out as an incredibly socially awkward but incredibly smart scientist who matched Sheldon's "don't touch me, struggled with humour, odd" personality. And then they turned her into a Sheldon obsessed handmaiden. They almost entirely erased who she was in her early appearances.

tarrarre

The Big Bang Theory is a depressing and sobering tale of a woman who spends years tolerating a man she has little chemistry with, eventually being "worn down" (to quote the show) by him and having a depressing wedding in Las Vegas. She says she never wants children but her petty and unpleasant friends shame her until she caves in and becomes pregnant. Meanwhile her close friend, a successful Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology with a well-paying job ends up becoming a nurse plus mother plus sex slave to a petulant manchild for the rest of her life, this being a sobering commentary on the reality of male-attracted women. And it's all cleverly disguised as a sitcom. Well played Chuck Lorre, well played

slippycheeze

I think it is also important to consider that in every joke the people we, the audience, and the laugh track, tell us that the men in question are literally laughable.

These are not men who perform masculinity well. They are so very bad at both masculinity and basic human interaction that the audience is expected to see the humor in their fumbling without any in-story explanation of why we should laugh.

So, not only are these women worn down until ZING they suddenly become willing participants in subjugating their whole entire selves to men...

...we are shown that this is the thing to do even when the men in question are a litteral joke to the rest of society.

This isn't giving up to be a barefoot, kitchen-bound housewife to a prize of a man, this is getting dragged down below men who are consistently shown as a joke. Because a woman shouldn't outshine that man in her life.

tarrarre

The Big Bang Theory is a depressing and sobering tale of a woman who spends years tolerating a man she has little chemistry with, eventually being "worn down" (to quote the show) by him and having a depressing wedding in Las Vegas. She says she never wants children but her petty and unpleasant friends shame her until she caves in and becomes pregnant. Meanwhile her close friend, a successful Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology with a well-paying job ends up becoming a nurse plus mother plus sex slave to a petulant manchild for the rest of her life, this being a sobering commentary on the reality of male-attracted women. And it's all cleverly disguised as a sitcom. Well played Chuck Lorre, well played