Okay you know what I was just gonna reblog this and say nothing but you know what, I’m pissed off and you wanna know why?
Ted is a Nice Guy. I don’t mean a nice man, no. I mean the motherfucking “Nice Guy” who moans and complains about how women just won’t flock to him and be exactly who he expects of them. He knew from the beginning Robin wanted to focus on her career before marriage. He knew from the beginning she didn’t want kids. She rejected him time after time before they dated the first time. She rejected him time after time after that, for nine goddamn fucking years. His refusal to stop pursuing her, and accept she did not fucking love her, destroyed his relationship with Victoria TWICE. He is the whiny high school teenager bitching because the popular girl he obsesses over just isn’t into him. He is the goddamn Nice Guy, the kind whose every action, every so-called kind deed is done purely out of trying to get Robin to date him.
Robin motherfucking Scherbatsky was an independent woman who not only relied on herself, but expected the men she wanted to be with to be independent and rely on himself, as well. She was career-minded and strong and independent and self-reliant. Those were the traits that doomed her and Ted.
In this gifset we see that Ted did not respect Robin for who she was. He didn’t want her to be self-reliant—he wanted her to rely on him. He’s like so many men out there, so many Nice Guys. Baby, let me take care of you while you put me before everything else, You’re too independent, Robin. I need you to need me, I need you to rely on me. The reason they didn’t work out was because they both wanted and needed different things in relationships, and that’s okay—what isn’t okay is that instead of accepting that, Ted blames her. Tells her that SHE is the reason why they broke up, and something about her is WRONG. He insults her, tells her that her fundamental personality is wrong, and that she is why their relationship failed; that they they just aren’t compatible, no; because she is broken.
She is so upset at this she goes to another ex. He’s the Jerk, you know; the guy who all the Nice Guys in the world call The Asshole. And you know what? You know what this Asshole does? He comforts her, he compliments her. He tells her that those traits, teh traits she’s been belittled and taunted over, the traits that make her broken, the reason why She Can’t Find A Man, are what make her wonderful. Barney loved her for her insecurities, and he supported her independence. He supported her self-reliance. In one scene, this Asshole prove to be far more accepting and mature than the so-called Nice Guy.
So who do she end up with?
Ted.
I really don’t give a shit to reblog it again.
I have never seen something more true than this.
I legit have never sat down and watched the show because I know what a mess the end was, and I know I would get invested in Robin and Barney only to have my heart shattered so NO THANK YOU.
Robin ❤ Barney = me = 💔😭💔😭💔😭💔😭 At the end of this show I actually hated Ted because of how he treated Robin. I hate the series finale so much, ruined all the great development that happened btwn Robin and Barney, flushed it all down the toilet for a ship that IMO ended its chances in season 1. I can’t bring myself to watch that series finale again, it’s terrible.
hey what’s up how’s everybody’s weekend going it’s 11am here and i just had to hear my nana use the word ‘precum’ incorrectly in a room full of like 40 people how y’all doin today
it’s rly important to my nana to stay ‘hip and cool’ so she parrots a lot of the slang she hears us use. so last thanksgiving i was trying to put ketchup on smthn and i forgot to shake the bottle and got that gross watery bit first and went “oh no the ketchup precum” and my nana overheard and asked what that meant, and instead of telling my sweet 70 y/o nana what precum meant, i told her it was just a silly word for the unmixed liquid that comes out of squeeze bottles
anyways, cut to today where we’re having a birthday lunch for my cousin and she goes to put mustard on smthn and gets the watery shit and sighs to herself “mustard precum” in her sweet lil welsh accent and every single person who knew what it meant and overheard took 30pts of psychic damage and sat there for a minute like
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