How I Met Your Mother tops off their politically correct show in spectacular fashion, in an attempt to shatter every red pill theory. As I mentioned earlier, Barney gets married to Robin, the washed up slut. In the meantime, Ted finally meets the girl of his dreams (the majority of the show revolved around his search for love) and ends up having two children with her. She is cute, but not extremely hot – in real life, she’d be happy to settle down with a guy like Ted, who has excellent status – good-looking, sociable, and holds the honor of being the youngest architect ever to design a New York City skyscraper.
However, three years later, Robin and Barney get divorced. Barney goes back to being a player, and Robin throws herself into her career, forsaking her friends because she doesn’t want to hang out with her ex-husband all of the time. A few years after that, Ted’s wife, Tracy, passes away due to illness. So what does he do?
Of course, he runs (literally) back to Robin a few years later when his kids give him the approval to date again. In the final scene of the show, Ted shows up at her apartment and rings the doorbell – holding the same blue french horn from their first date many years ago. So here we are – Robin is (by the show’s timeline) about fifty years old, and she still has beta men pining after her.
This is a terrible message the show sends to young men. This show is enforcing the idea that it is good to pursue washed-up, over the hill sluts who, frankly have already had their chance in life. By all accounts, Robin was a hot girl in her 20s living in New York City – she had every opportunity to make better choices, find a good life partner (rather than a former player), but she wasted the majority of her prime being your typical entitled and selfish American girl.
It’s too bad that she got rewarded for that with another blue french horn from Ted the beta.
