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Bruh, that’s just the youtube link again.

You should watch it

It seemed from the video that they were including the context. Do you counter examples of how bbt especially respects women? Or mitigating context for the examples in the video?

Several other people here mentioned the same thing. You'll need to provide some examples to show your point.

My father in law said the same thing about Rush Limbaugh after he died. He said that Rush had a good heart and people were just using cherry picked examples of his bad behavior. The problem is that it's just such casual misogyny and the constant portrayal by media that nerds must be given a chance with attractive women despite any flaws the nerd has or lack of attraction to the nerd.

You didn't watch the video did you?

Pop Culture Detective is a channel with videos that take months for him to painstakingly write and produce. They are not lazy cherry picked videos for clicks and likes. He is a very intelligent, thoughtful, thought provoking, detailed, kind, and well read man who cares a lot about the way we portray many toxic attitudes in video media, and in particular, toxic masculinity.

The writing of BBT is far more lazy and unintelligent than the videos made by Pop Culture Detective. He cares about context, and he cares about accuracy.

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The thing that always put me off on it is it's effectively a "nerd culture" show aimed at making fun of extremely over the top caricatures of nerds.

There is nothing particularly bad about it. It triggers Reddit-type people because it's a show about nerds where every joke is "haha, he's a nerd!".

Oh, stop. It's a sexist, homophobic, unfunny shit pile.

The show writers by helping to perpetuate ableism, mysogany, transphobia, etc...

sheldon bazinga'd my dog

To be fair, every corporate enterprise I engage with by any terms regards me as an antagonist it must catch and parastize and engages routinely in dark patterns to trick me into its barbed snares.

A better question is, who doesn't hurt you?

It's a shorter list.

It was Big Bang Theory.

Glad someone said it.

Season one or two are actually pretty decent. As the show continued, it doubled down on the minor stereotypical qualities of each character and made that feature their entire personality. It's a pretty normal outcome for any television show, particular across comedy and sitcoms, when the qualities in question are "has autism/aspbergers" and "doesn't know how to treat people like they're human", it quickly becomes a show focused on punching down. Before long, the plot breaks down to the more socially competent characters "fixing" nerds and nerd culture as it continually reinforces the stereotypes that the first couple seasons, sure, poked fun at, but in equal measure challenged the validity of.

At some point the show stopped being a comedy about nerd culture and shifted to actively mocking, not even nerd culture, but the entire culture around academics and intellectualism. It shifted to bullying, validated on your television screen, by showing you time and time again how horrible these socially awkward nerds are, and how difficult they make life for others.

I'm honestly not sure what season of the show I've seen. I've only seen bits and pieces of an episode or two. Maybe it was a positive thing early on, and I think it could be a better show if it were a little more earnest, but the little exposure I had to it was decidedly negative.

My problem with every bit of it that I've seen, is that they try to make their characters every type of nerd all at once. That's not how it works. People are obsessed with a couple niche things, they are nerds about their little area. All the characters on BBT are into, like, everything that non nerd people find nerdy. It's absurd. No one is like that.

And from what I've seen, it has a tone of laughing at nerds, not laughing with them. Maybe that changes from season to season, but what I saw was enough. Just a very grating show to watch that feels like it was made for people who have that one nerdy niece or nephew that they don't really understand but hey, this must be what they're like with their friends!

Nerd does not imply outcast.

Hmm. I guess it does not. But the show (at least occasionally,I haven't seen much of it) implies the nerdy folks are ostracized from the more "normal" ones when they make some quip that no one but them (and the audience obviously) understand. Though, I suppose that could also be because Sheldon is an immense prick as well as a nerd. Something else that does not endear me to the show.

Perhaps closer than Revenge of the Nerds was...

Perhaps, but for older nerds like me, that outcast experience is an essential part of nerd identity.

Younger nerds and geeks, who are now embraced, never went through that shit, and have in my mind a fucked up perspective on what it means to be one.

I had no issue with this show for a while until someone pointed out how overtly perverted many of the main cast are. The laugh track and 'adorkable' aspect really throw you off, but once you see it...

Yeah, it's fucking creepy.

Ah, solid take. "Well, if he's saying this could apply to the Big bang theory, then of course it forgives my black sheep media."

Haha, fair point

I have never watched an episode and assumed I was in the right? But I know they made that funny meme where Charlie Sheen says. If it's important than you wouldn't have forgotten it, and that is a joke, which is a phenomenon I don't think I've ever heard of or seen from the big bang theory

I read this as "2 and a half mom" and now I want to see that show.

Seinfeld is just horribly unfunny, maybe it’s just because it’s so old it’s not relatable anymore. Or maybe it’s because Seinfeld is a pervert that rapes teenagers, idk.

You made that up, eh?

While they have done some pretty unsavory things involving Penny being the butt of many jokes that border on sexist, I can't think of a single example of homophobia from the show.

I get it. When someone's a caregiver like a parent or a personal assistant they need the capacity to be responsible and give care. So if someone has to rely on harsh coping mechanism like booze or cannabis to the point it impairs their ability to give care, maybe they have too much responsibility.

So when we have a society in which 80% of the population live in precarity, I suspect that means there's more of us who need care (e.g. kids) than there are caregivers. Also people don't get points (money) for parenting, which means it's not regarded by a capitalist system as an essential responsibility. All our adults are expected to work full time which leaves them too exhausted to parent (or, for that matter, spend energy engaging in civic activity).

Both of my parents were heavy drinkers, and I suffered for it. But the attitude at the time (1970s-1980s) that each household was responsible for how they managed their kids, and any symptoms of abuse (sounds of violence, kids exhibiting dysfunctional) were willfully ignored. It's an intergenerational problem that perpetuates mental illness.

But those people I know who overused their various chemical copes didn't have kids, and often were disabled enough to question whether they could manage their own lives. (Adults needing caregivers are also underserved, and are not covered by healthcare programs.) So it's much like living in a post apocalypse where society doesn't really work anymore.

I wouldn't recommend hard drugs and chronic traumatic encephalopathy to anyone but they've done me wonders