well raj does get some here or there but it really is hard to find a girl when you can't talk to them unless you are drunk and you go from tipsy to over the line in two seconds flat. though raj is supposedly based on a real guy who got over it enough to be married with four kids so you never know.
I think the main problem with the whitewashing on this show is that there is not a single principal I could see replaced by anyone else. and most of the guest stars as well. and while the koothrapalis are the only people of color, we spend more time with them than anyone else's family combined
I do think they need to get more different guest stars and background characters and find awesome people and write stories with them.
I JUST decided to stop watching the Big Bang Theory after this week's episode. I've hung in there for the past few seasons sustained by the occasional good episode in the vain hope it would get back to the relative heights of season 2, but I can't justify it any longer. I'm talking about the gender stuff because that's the lens I tend to watch things through. It's not just the women though - the depiction of the men is equally depressing. BBT has always been uncomfortable to watch from time to time because of the jokes about Raj being gay and relationships like the one between Howard and his mother, but this was the first episode in a long time where the entire plot revolved around gender stereotypes
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Adult women (with PhDs) don't own laptops and need their boyfriends to help them pick one out Said laptops for women only come in pink and flowery
I didn't know she had a PhD. That could have made more sense if she said she needed a new laptop to play [some modern game] at high resolution and 60FPS and wanted her boyfriends help picking that out. Versus just not having a laptop at all. In 2011, as a PhD.
Men are actual infants/unhygienic/don't give a shit about anyone else's feelings if it interferes with said fun
That did seem to be Sheldon's character. I've only seen two eps but in both he was being a dick to his girlfriend. Plus doesn't want a physical relationship with her. And only seems interested in her out of jealousy, like in an "I don't want you but no one else can have you" way. Maybe there's more nuance to that relationship, but I didn't like what I saw of it.
It is a very traditional sitcom so it will always eschew previous character development for the sake of a cheap laugh I guess but it crossed a line for me last week. I love Melissa Rauch who plays Bernadette, she's a really great comic actress and a big part of why I watch the show - thinking about it, the actors are probably the only reason because there's not much else I like about it. Yeah...that's it - my BBT watching is a symptom of a bad case of Roseanne/Cybill/Blossom nostalgia
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I have heard and observed the same in other university US physics departments. In fact, I've heard that the bar in graduate programs is so high that increasingly fewer and fewer US educated graduate applicants are being admitted because they just cannot hold a candle next to the international applicant pool.
Maybe things have changed, but when I was in school anyone that wanted to go to grad school in physics pretty much could, and there may have even been some preference for US-born students. The bigger problem was that the US education was doing an increasingly poor job in getting students, at all levels, interested in science.
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I think the main problem with the whitewashing on this show is that there is not a single principal I could see replaced by anyone else. and most of the guest stars as well. and while the koothrapalis are the only people of color, we spend more time with them than anyone else's family combined
I do think they need to get more different guest stars and background characters and find awesome people and write stories with them.
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Said laptops for women only come in pink and flowery
I didn't know she had a PhD. That could have made more sense if she said she needed a new laptop to play [some modern game] at high resolution and 60FPS and wanted her boyfriends help picking that out. Versus just not having a laptop at all. In 2011, as a PhD.
Men are actual infants/unhygienic/don't give a shit about anyone else's feelings if it interferes with said fun
That did seem to be Sheldon's character. I've only seen two eps but in both he was being a dick to his girlfriend. Plus doesn't want a physical relationship with her. And only seems interested in her out of jealousy, like in an "I don't want you but no one else can have you" way. Maybe there's more nuance to that relationship, but I didn't like what I saw of it.
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