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Dereliction 2 points ago +3 / -1

Bernadette is portrayed as smarter than Howard. or not having a PHD like she does. She tells him verbatim she is smarter than him, and he agrees.

Okay, I'll concede that point, but having no PHD is an element of mockery Howard receives from everyone. Despite this, he's a highly successful engineer and astronaut, which arguably outshines pretty much anything Berny is shown to accomplish.

While Amy is socially awkward she mellowed over time.

This is true too, but it's also an acknowledged part of her personal character arc. She attributes Penny to making her "cooler" and more down to earth, but for most of the series, she's a very submissive and awkward character which also makes her vulnerable and entertaining.

They had whole episodes dedicated to how awesome the girls were.

There are comparable episodes for the boys, but I'd still point out that this approaches nothing when measured against the current era of girl boss media. It's not even in the same league.

All this is to say, again, that compared to this era of media, TBBT has some positively based moments. The series started by them cracking jokes about the tranny who used to live across the hall. Good luck starting with that today!

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Dereliction 2 points ago +3 / -1

They even made Penny the higher paid partner with Leonard.

Leonard IS a beta who still managed to get the hot chick. Sheldon even mocks him for being a soy-drinking beta. That's all part of the ongoing joke. Leonard should never be portrayed as an alpha, dominant male, but you're still expecting him to be. You're completely missing the mark.

And the women DO make the boys' lives better. Trying to find and manage good male/female relationships is part of the arc to the entire series for all characters. Frankly, it's also often done with a good message -- a man is better with a woman and vice versa. Raj and Stewart often serve as foils to that message.

However, the women are not shown to be smarter and more capable. Penny is portrayed as dumb throughout the entire series. She's an incompetent waitress and failed actress until, much later, she's given a long-shot opportunity to become a sales rep. She almost bombs at the interview until she bond's with the boss over their bitchy associate, Bernadine, which is just enough to rationalize her getting the job. Penny succeeds as a rep because she uses her sex appeal, not because she's a talented sales person, something she's fully cognizant about.

While Bernadine is competent and intelligent, she's never portrayed as smarter than Howard or the males. Amy is the only one who rivals their intelligence, and she's even more awkward and socially inept than the boys.

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Dereliction 8 points ago +8 / -0

No, you're definitely not wrong. This isn't a bill to ban TikTok, it's a bill to bank opposition social media.

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Dereliction 5 points ago +5 / -0

I know gamers and nerds like to buck against it, but The Big Bang Theory seems positively based compared to "current day" shows. They made jokes about trannies, that soy makes men feminine, was anti-Women Studies and more. This even continued after the series tipped into the woke era.

As I understand it, Jim Parsons also shocked everyone at the show when he announced he would no longer continue after season 12, citing a desire to do other things. The decision came out of nowhere and he could easily have piling up the dough for years playing Cooper. (He makes $10m just from reruns, and purportedly over $150m directly from the role.) I'm wondering if he faced pressure to wokify his character (or the show more broadly) and decided to nope-out before the character and series was ruined by it. He went on to become Executive Producer of Young Sheldon, which I haven't seen, but I understand that it also avoided virtually all of the woke carnage that infiltrated elsewhere.

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Dereliction 9 points ago +9 / -0

Tyson has been a garbage company for a long while now, and their products are gaaaarbage.

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Dereliction 2 points ago +2 / -0

Pretty sure we can relate their epidemic to most of our society's major issues.

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Dereliction 10 points ago +10 / -0

You had a good run, Japan. GG.

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Dereliction 13 points ago +13 / -0

Undoubtedly it was uploaded by some teen looking for social media clicks/clout. It's so common and expected, I doubt anyone views it as a "snitches" scenario.

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Dereliction 5 points ago +5 / -0

Thing is, INEVITABLY, all this will break down and stop functioning, simply because the people purportedly competent to hold society and civilization upright are not actually capable of the task.

As things get worse and worse, people (including many of these women) will plead for a reversal, for a return to sanity and meritocracy.

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Dereliction 6 points ago +6 / -0

Jesus Christ, we'd all be better of just letting China keep running it.

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Dereliction 12 points ago +12 / -0

I'm surprised by how little Craig and Blabs seem to know about GG and the ongoing culture war.

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Dereliction 4 points ago +4 / -0

I was betting that Jumangi would vote against this even before Sotomayor. I really thought it would be 8-1, maaaybe 7-2.

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Dereliction 2 points ago +2 / -0

I could be wrong, but I think she's literally playing the race card on this one.

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Dereliction 7 points ago +7 / -0

What a lunatic, and that's a high bar given what's required to be considered an actual lunatic these days.

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Dereliction 27 points ago +27 / -0

If it was distributed on X, how can they deem it still privately distributed? Garbage.

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Dereliction 3 points ago +3 / -0

When you're so gay you literally ruin everything.

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Dereliction 23 points ago +23 / -0

I'd like to know if the PalWorld guys were bit by a woke localizer with the "Body Type 1 | Body Type 2" bullshit in the creator. Do we have any idea?

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Dereliction 12 points ago +12 / -0

I suppose someone should point out to Mr. Moore that there are decades upon decades of books which describe the exact ways in which these "useless" capabilities would be put to use besides grilling hot dogs or delivering pizzas.

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