Funny how the writers forget half of their audience is women. Just like so many episodes of season 3, this one is filled with misogyny too. Marshall starts calling Robin a slut for having a one night stand. Not once, but multiple times. Yes, Marshall is Robin's friend. Yes, Barney is sitting at the same table . Barney, who is nothing more than a man whore and is made out to be a stud. They never showed anybody slut shaming Barney, interestingly. However he slut shames Robin repeatedly, nobody jumps to her defense and the usually self assured Robin turns into this complete insecure, mess who instead of confronting Marshall for being a douche starts to project herself in the good girl image. Shows like these influence men and women across the world. Funny how writers twist masculinity and feminity to suit their utterly sexist and misogynistic world view : Anything typically masculine that men do is cool. Anything typically masculine that females do is disgusting(like One Night Stands). Anything typically feminine that females do is whiny, uncool or disgusting. Anything typically feminine that males do is disgusting, like how they make Marshall to be a wuss when he talks about love, or having sex with just Lily.
Friends was much better than HIMYM on misogyny. I guess there were more female writers in their team. If ever possible, I would like to pose this question to HIMYM team on how they exactly thought misogyny was 'funny' and 'harmless' as well as the deprecating way they depict Marshall. And why they thought a girl would just sit their and listen with a smile while she is called a slut. Dear writers, you should've known this when you were 12 year old boys. We will kick somebody's ass for calling us that instead of sitting and smiling . And yes, , friends definitely don't call that to each other.
Friends was much better than HIMYM on misogyny. I guess there were more female writers in their team. If ever possible, I would like to pose this question to HIMYM team on how they exactly thought misogyny was 'funny' and 'harmless' as well as the deprecating way they depict Marshall. And why they thought a girl would just sit their and listen with a smile while she is called a slut. Dear writers, you should've known this when you were 12 year old boys. We will kick somebody's ass for calling us that instead of sitting and smiling . And yes, , friends definitely don't call that to each other.