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[–]meranii 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Honestly, the plot of the episode sounds like hot-ass garbage. Like someone thought to himself "dumb gamer shit but make it woke and exaggerated". If anything it calls out gender identity as a complete construct, like male AGP roleplaying online taken to the next level. The ending that the wife is "allowed to sleep with other men" (idk how it plays out in the episode so I can only go by what you wrote) would surely anger most guys watching it, wouldn't that be basically "being cucked" or whatever MRAs online call it? She lives her life for real while all the men on the show get is a fantasy of being/fucking a cute Asian girl.

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Honestly though, I’ve met men like that? I’m ashamed to say I dated men like that. They seem happier with their virtual relationships than real ones. I’ve been in their shoes. Sort of. The episode is an extreme example but not far off.

[–]meranii 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Oh definitely, lots of men prefer their fantasy of a woman to the real thing. But then they also complain when real women don't live up to the fantasy, they have to do something outside of gaming/jerking off or they feel disrespected when we don't take their loser lifestyle seriously. I didn't mean to say the the relationship between the guys on the show is unrealistic, just that it sounds like a very dumb unsubtle plot.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah most definitely unsubtle.

[–]tuesday 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The dynamic described by the OP is true tho, I see it many times a day while playing a massive multi player game. Lots of men do that.

[–]meranii 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but where did I say men don't do online roleplaying like that? They're AGP and they do. The episode took it to the next level in that the two men were actually able to have a form of tactile sex in their new identities. You and user Morningmist both replied to me with "but these men exist/they do this!" like we're in disagreement, so now I'm thinking maybe I phrased something wrong. My basic points were that the plot is dumb, it's all a male fantasy, and the woman in the episode "wins" by not being pathetic, haha.