In fact, Ted Mosby is a character that most guys can relate to. Of course I’m not bashing the show for having a beta male as it’s lead. But you can’t fault it because Ted has a pretty feminine personality as well, so the laws of attraction dictate that he finds his complementary opposite. Granted they aren’t the hottest girls–in fact a large majority of them have very distinct masculine qualities.
Somehow he does have his fair share of women over the course of the show. Ted at first goes and actively looks for love, but somewhere in the middle he decides that it’s a pointless endeavor and just wait for fate to take its course. I’m just pointing it out his position in a hypothetical social hierarchy) (Disclaimer: I don’t use the term “beta” as a negative thing. Just a typical nice guy–and by typical I mean frustrated at the whole relationship and dating game. He portrays himself to be a romantic at heart. In this article I’ll just break down the characters and their respective relationships to each other and the universe of HIMYM. It may seem a little ridiculous to try to analyze a show like that, but it’s interesting to see the presence of the Female Imperative in a widely popular show that has hooked many people over the years. Why would any man worship Barney Stinson as a role model for masculinity and manliness, or than doing so ironically? I know a few people who take the Barney Stinson image quite seriously and don’t see that it’s a subtle parody that mocks masculinity. And so the show manifested differently to me. Being a newly reformed red pill taker, I see things in a different way. I was still mindblown, but not by the fact that it was any better than the last time, but the magnitude of the show’s shittiness overwhelmed me. Threw one on and, you know how when you read a really good book and you go on with your life and you read it again and you learn new things and it blows your mind more than the first time? This wasn’t it. I noticed several of my friends using Barney Stinson references–a little excessively–and I thought to myself, “Hey, why not just watch a random episode?” And so I did. Just a couple of days back, though, I was bored and scrolling through Facebook. And truth be told it was funny and compelling to watch right until it got unfunny and draggy and boring and…yeah–which was why I stopped watching HIMYM or any television sitcom for that matter (also because Californication ended and I was so distraught that I decided to swear off TV). How could it not be? Everyone was watching it. I followed a lot of television sitcoms and dramas. The Feminization Of Television, Part 1: How I Met Your Mother Kids, Back In 2008…
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