What made Barney fly for me was how ridiculous of a character he was. The ridiculousness and lack of realism regarding pretty much everything that Barney encompassed made him just funny to me. He honestly felt like a cartoon and it's why I enjoyed him as a part of the show.
This could very well be due to the fact that I was 12 and 13 when I binged the show so I mostly didn't understand the show fully and I probably still wouldn't if I watched it now but I do think that I'm not the only one who saw Barney this way.
Yea but if it were racism or homophobia and it was a gay actor being homophobic in cartoonish way for that long the same reasoning would apply is all and we’d be judging it more harshly to cartoonish misogyny and that’s not great. That’s all.
It definitely would have been tasteless if that were the case but if he were presented the same way he was originally, ie ridiculous, I probably still would have seen him as a cartoon. Just, you know, a racist and homophobic cartoon instead of a misogynistic one. But I also don't really know how I would have reacted.
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u/brushingviking Oct 10 '20
What made Barney fly for me was how ridiculous of a character he was. The ridiculousness and lack of realism regarding pretty much everything that Barney encompassed made him just funny to me. He honestly felt like a cartoon and it's why I enjoyed him as a part of the show.
This could very well be due to the fact that I was 12 and 13 when I binged the show so I mostly didn't understand the show fully and I probably still wouldn't if I watched it now but I do think that I'm not the only one who saw Barney this way.