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it has been mentioned briefly a few times but I think there should be a podcast solely about infantalization.

holy hell this is awesome. I'm gonna watch it again and keep this analysis in mind.

Not to mention how they glorify the awkward beautiful girl. According to Disney, all interactions that have anything to do with romance need to be awkward and full of people bumbling over their words like idiots. Worse than it actually is in real life.

Two weeks ago marked the series finale of CBS's hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which ran for 9 seasons. For those who are unfamiliar with it, it's basically about a father telling his kids the story of how he met their mother. It's filled with plenty of twists and turns, heartfelt emotions and side busting hilarity--and most importantly, character development. Basically it focuses on how the father Ted Mosby had to go through a journey of love and loss to become a genuine enough guy to deserve a woman as lovely as Tracy McConnoly, the Mother character. Although Ted is the main character of the show, a lot of its attention is garnered towards Barney Stinson, the polar opposite of Ted. Where Ted is a hopeless romantic whose stories are all about how much of a fool he is, Barney likes to talk himself up and is basically a misogynist that uses women for sex. Barney has actually been dedicated to educating Ted the ways of a Bro, in which he teaches him the etiquette of being a wingman and a ladies man. However, the past few seasons have been focussed on turning Barney into a one woman man, particularly to the point of getting married to Robin Scherbatsky. Ted met and dated Robin first, even told her that he was in love with her on their first date, and that crippled his chances with being with her for about a year. They did end up dating, but they had a clean break up because they respected each other's personal preferences. Ted wants to settle down and have kids, Robin wants to travel the world as a world reknown journalist. Eventually the attraction built between Robin and Barney created that havoc between best friends having shared a woman who belongs to their circle of friends. There's also a matter of the characters Marshall and Lily, who I think are the first genuine young couple in TV today who are just ALLOWED to be in love. They are basically the ideal relationship to people as broken as Ted, Robin and Barney, but of course they share their own marital problems throughout the course of the series. They're not entirely unimportant to my analysis, but I thought it was worth mentioning who their remaining friends were in one of the greatest 5 piece ensembles I've seen on TV. Eat your heart out, Friends. ANYWAYS, I didn't want to bore you with too much of a synopsis, but I did want to provide enough context to make the series finale make sense to you and why it caused such an uproar to the long standing fanbase. The show has already been highly scrutinized by fans and former fans for a variety reasons, but the series finale topped off that hatred with an ending that was less fairy tale, and more realistic. And that drove people up the wall. Spoilers ahead obviously: The 9th and final season focussed on the entire weekend leading up to Robin and Barney's wedding. Yes 24 episodes based on 3 crucial days in the lives of this ensemble. People were lead to believe that Barney had reformed and will settle down and be a one woman man. And of course Ted will find the woman of his dreams and live happily ever after with her. But here's the kicker: the finale featured snapshots of the ensemble's lives in the distant future. We find out that after only three years of marriage, Robin and Barney get divorced, and Barney in his 40's goes back to his misogynistic ways running lame plays to get laid. Meanwhile Robin gets to travel the world and report the news like she's always wanted. When I watched it, it rubbed me the wrong way too when they show Barney being all sleazy again, but he gets what he deserves when he challenges himself to get laid 31 days straight, and ends up knocking up the 31st woman. In hindsight, I feel that his character arc was completed when he finally got to hold his newborn daughter in his arms, and swore to give everything he had and everything he is to her, the new love of his life. It made sense for him to become a father because he's always so concerned with mentoring Ted, it was just his inner father all along. Barney himself has had daddy issues because his dad abandoned him, but one of the biggest turning points in his character development WAS meeting his father and patching things up with him. Plus Robin can't have kids so their marriage wouldn't work out well for Barney if kids was his unconscious desire all along. Ted of course gets to enjoy a little more than a decade of an ideal marriage with kids, but it comes to an end when Tracy, the Mother, is revealed to be dead in the future. And the reason why Ted told his story to his kids is because in his middle age, he's been single since the 6 years after Tracy's death, and wants to know if his kids are okay with him hooking up with their Aunt Robin. This pissed people off because there was so much build up for this character, then they introduced her and showed flash forwards of their perfect marriage throughout the 9th season, and also showed how she met all of Ted's friends before meeting him. My personal pet peeve was not having her in enough group scenes because she had great chemistry with all of them individually. Save for Robin, didn't feel it as much, but anyway! This ending pissed people off because they expected Barney and Robin--and Ted and Tracy, to live happily ever after, but didn't. Life went on and changes were made. I personally enjoyed the ending and thought it was perfect. It all came full circle because Robin was the woman Ted first truly fell in love with, but had to put those feelings aside for a long long time. Especially after they broke up and Robin continued being part of their group. It makes sense that even though he fought his feelings as hard as he could to encourage Robin to go through with the wedding, decades later he knew he's always had a place in his heart for her. I posted a status about this finale being pretty much perfect tying up all loose ends, and a friend of mine actually said he would have preferred the fairy tale ending. That he watches shows to escape from reality, not be reminded of its sometimes unnerving ways. I guess that's what I really wanted to talk about in this thread. Thank you for reading through this if you've gotten this far in my post. I wanted to talk about what I call the Disney Delusion in which love and romance means happily ever afters...as opposed to what HIMYM presented, which was life goes on and love and romance are things you need to work at keeping alive. And that it is possible to have multiple lovers in your lifetime, but some will be more significant than others and take up a certain amount of time in your life. Your thoughts?

take away privelages? ah these women were almost there...

well that says everything doesn't it? vengeance to the people who made them feel inferior

What do you think of Matt and Trey's commentary on religion through this play? I hear they poke tons of fun at religion while remaining upbeat about faith.

Come to the chatroom sometime and increase your chances. Particularly during the Sunday call in shows, tons of single(also possibly taken) ladies log on. ....No I'm not one of them, though.

whoa it's freaky how they can repeat so strongly...that kid at 1:20 looks so sad

OP's argument is quite convincing...FOR LESSER MINDS!!! No but seriously, kudos to the inoculation analogy. Someone who isn't as well versed in the knowledge of child abuse's effects, or someone who just doesn't have basic empathy--would have been swooned by this. Then you consider there are so many things you don't have to be exposed to in order to know it's dangerous. In fact, the mere act of providing the positive opposite is usually enough to teach someone the stark difference.

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Because I'm disturbed how most of the Youtube comments miss the point of the video, even though the point of the video is executed poorly. Reminds me of the narcissism that comes from broadcasting one's children online to boast their cuteness. Not to say there aren't any genuinely cute videos of children on the internet, but in this case, seems like a weird way to show off.

I found this trending on the front pages of Youtube. What do you guys think of this "life lesson" this mother taughter to her daughter? To me it seems like she just taught her daughter how to angrily say NO! to the category of "strange men." But does she explain what a strange man is? Or better yet...why would the mother be in any situation that would allow strange men around her daughter in the first place? Especially one that young?! Oh and the comments below are priceless. What can you expect from Youtube after all? All the comments are geared towards how cute the kid is. Yes that much is obvious, but the valuable lesson the mother is trying to teach is how to ward off predatory men that might lure her daughter through cookies, candy, or offers to go swimming together. However, her execution is more of inflicting conclusions and teaching her kid WHAT to say. There's no conversation, there's no framework in which to help her daughter think critically about strangers. I would also argue, the daughter should already be living in an environment that teaches her to spot the difference between safe people and strange people.

Coming back to this thread after a couple months, I am quite proud of my interpretation of that episode. If anybody's still interested in this show and saw the episode in question, I would love to know what you think of my thoughts.

This guy is hilarious! I wanna see a full set now.

Yeah you're right Ivan. You gotta play to people's vanity. We all have it, there's nothing wrong with a little vanity to some degree. People like talking about theirselves and what they know of, that's how you get them to talk up a storm. You just can't unload a unique topic to them on the fly. Maybe sometimes they like that off putting surprise, but it's tricky to keep a consistent conversation that's foreign with them when you don't know someone well.

Great stuff ER! You are on the right path now. Thank you for being open to our feedback and picking up on it all quite quickly. Good luck

Nala: Nice a female perspective, we need it! Thanks for weighing in and focussing on how one should connect with their true joy to attract the right types. I am curious though, How can he find that out unless he talks to her first? dsayers: good to approach it all those angles. Hope it helps him. Glad to hear you've chosen to improve. Nathan: oh yeah platonic friendships seriously do help create comfortability around women. It's been my experience lately. Take the possibility sex off the table and all that's left is to get to know them for who they are without any added pressure that you hope you add up to what they'd like. Then you can apply that kind of comfort when it does come to talking to women you do want to pursue for romance and sex.

I'm probably talking out of my ass and this is just a theory of mine, but I think over thinking it and feeling nervous about a woman is a bit disrespectful. You're holding her to a high standard made up all in your mind that may not have anything to do with who she really is. So actually talking to her and diffusing that fantasy might be a disappointment, I get it, and I'm no stud myself. But I've had experience in overcoming that hump in approaching women in public (much harder than class since you get to see her often) and I'm still working on it, but I think it's best to just say hi and talk to her about a thought of hers she expressed and got you thinking. She will appreciate your appreciation for her mind. Oh yeah so the whole high standard thing being disrespectful is a bit of unfair because you're absolving your own self worth through the fear of it being at stake if she doesn't receive you well. I think if you're just nice and calm talking to her like in the video Antony talked about, then she should respond accordingly. If she doesn't, then the fantasy dissolves, but at least you know she's not worth your time. I apologize in advance if my post seems a bit aggressive. Just my thoughts. Feel free to discard them at will and ask me anything about the whole approach thing. LIke I said, I've been working at it in my self and I'm hoping for someone to help prove me wrong or right about the validity of my theory.

lol that episode is gonna be worth the rewatch, thanks! and thanks for the video share Kevin, Im gonna go listen to it right now. Thanks to the argument I had with my friend, my attraction for her died a horribly death, like a mangled ox on a train track that got pulverized by a bulldozer. That's not to say I can't be friends with her, but dating now is completely off the table if she chews up and spits out all her guy friends who just want to openly admit they like her.

Wow that's cool Kevin! Didn't know people dedicated their time to transcript so many podcasts.

you da man, man! excellent post. It's kind of hard to distinguish between negotiating and bribery so I'll be careful to spot the difference.

I watched this a couple weeks ago. To me it felt pretty statist but logical for the kid to be a bit of an authoritarian when he is given reign to govern over those strange creatures. It was a pretty boring film to me, but I can see how the parallels are to abuse. He was pretty neglected after a while and got bullied by his sister's friends. I didn't like how it ended. No real resolution with his mother or sister. I appreciate your blog post though for the deeper look at the film.

Ok I can see how it might turn into infinite regression, but it still seems to me that there isn't a completely original idea. Rather there are original approaches to existing ones and building on them to create new stuff such as going from the chariot to the car.

How was the relationship between your parents? And how was your relationship with them as a couple? Did you ever feel the need to be the glue between them if they were drastically different from each other like these two friends of yours?