'How I Met Your Mother' Is Super Sexist

Recently I've been scrounging for anything good to watch on Netflix Instant. I started watching HIMYM because I had seen the first season years ago and remembered enjoying it. I watched the entire series in a couple of days. Its funny enough. There are some cool time jumps and over arching themes. There are some cool cameos and fun reoccurring bits. You get engrossed in the characters even though they never really progress or do anything. And at a certain point you realize. Wait. These characters are kind of horrible. Wait. This show is really misogynistic.

The character Barney played by Neil Patrick Harris is horrible. He thinks women are stupid(except for his friends and mother) and wants to have sex with all of them. He treats women like objects. A reoccurring joke on the show is Barney using ridiculous pick up strategies to successfully hook up with women. 'Bimbo' is used a lot on the show. Barney is very exaggerated and over the top, the intention is to be funny. But he just comes off as an asshole skeeze. And a lot of times the show expects you to laugh when Barney takes advantage of a women. Like "good old Barney, he fooled another one, haha!"

A lot is forgiven within the show because Barney is played by a gay actor. There's like a reverse suspension of your disbelief. You don't think anything of the way he treats women because you know its fake. But when you think about it, its really awful. After seeing so many episodes in so short a time it became glaring.

The leads in HIMYM are shallow, petty, and narcissistic. The show has a severely limited view of women and relationships. As a whole it reminds me of 'Seinfeld' without any self-awareness.

Full Disclosure: I did watch the entire series. I enjoyed most of it.

Graffiti 48

In Barcelona, photo credit to HP

"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob." -Salvador Dali

"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust." -Salvador Dali

'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' A Review

The most interesting part about 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' is the title. The film is about a spy in the 70's trying to find a mole in his department. The acting is so subtle its non-existent. The film is so understated the characters never react to anything. The intrigue that drives the film is so vague you never invest in it. No character is developed. All characters are two dimensions. When you find out who the mole is at the end of the film, not only are you not surprised, you don't care.

On Conan Gary Oldman said it was the easiest job he ever had. He's right. He does nothing.

Don't See It.

Stupid Train Conversations 2

Bro#1: Do you think any of these people know I puked this morning?
Bro#2:(laughs) Cool it.
Bro#1:(eating a banana) Dude. You ever have durian fruit?
Bro#2: What? No.
Bro#1:(mouth full of banana) It's Asian. It's an Asian fruit that smells like shit.
Bro#2: I don't like Asian food.
Bro#1: No dude. It's this fruit. Durian. It smells like shit but its so good!
Bro#2: I don't like fruit.
Bro#1: (indicating the banana peel) I'm gonna throw this at the wall.
Bro#2: Splat.

Cheating

Becky gets caught cheating on a test.

Steve's Top 5 Movies Of 2011

Top 5:

Another Earth

Cedar Rapids

The Guard

Into The Abyss

Page One: Inside The New York Times

Top 5 Disappointments:

Drive

Hugo

Midnight In Paris

My Week With Marilyn

The Tree Of Life

Most Overrated:

The Artist

Most Underrated:

Terri

Honorable Mentions:

A Dangerous Method

Drive Angry 3D

Hesher

Hobo With A Shotgun

Source Code

Worst Movie Of The Year:

The Skin I Live In

Performances Of The Year:

Brendan Gleeson, The Guard

Ed Helms, Cedar Rapids

Brit Marling, Another Earth

Elizabeth Olson, Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene

John C. Reilly, Terri

Savior Sole

Beanpole's latest piece. It resonates with me more than his other recent stuff. I think because I identify with it. Being connected and disconnected with people at the same time. When I first saw it, it felt like he had plucked the image out of my head. Like I had seen it before. It's familiar and comforting.

And tragic.