There's a genre of show that appeals to foids, what I call the "Wunder-butthole" genre. Where some cerebral genius effortlessly dominates his field of expertise, most of the episode showcases him berating his co-workers and yelling at anyone who opposes him. He gets to break the rules while others don't, and suffers little consequences for it. Also he usually has a soft and agreeable homosexual-coded male best friend. His eccentricity is tolerated because he's that good. House, Mr Robot, Sherlock, the Mentalist, Dexter, Psyche, all fall under this genre.
Are these shows mostly subtle sexual coombait for women? I mean the mystery aspect is often comparatively shallow compared to actual investigation shows. Large portions of the show are dedicated to literally the cycle of some plebian normal having an opinion, the wunder-genius yelling at him or mocking him, the plebian normal trying to argue back, the wunder-genius publicly humiliating him, and then the pleb slinking away. Oftentimes there's a self insert woman that's close to the wunder-butthole who doesn't get treated quite as mean, and just pouts the entire time the main character breaks the rules and tags along. Over the years I've noticed women drawn to these shows while men have been for the most part indifferent.
I ask because nobody else really seems to make this connection. Nobody even seems to talk about how the target audience for this slop is middle aged women either, the same target audience for serial killer slop, in fact, Dexter is both serial killer slop and wunder-butthole slop. But to me it's always seemed really obvious the butthole braggart aspect of the characters is the main appeal of the shows, women get turned on when powerful men get to talk down to other people. And that's it, all the plot contrivances are to just have a repetition of that play out over several seasons.
I first clicked onto it when I was talking to a teenage girl about the Marvel movies and she mentioned being attracted to Dr Strange. I said "He's just an butthole" and she was like "yeeaaaah... but I really like that". She wasn't as drawn to Captain America, Thor or all the other ones that are more conventionally attractive, she was drawn to the smart sardonic butthole that berates people. After that I looked into the slop women consumed with that in mind, and seen these butthole characters everywhere.
Am I wrong? I don't think I am.
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I remember when House could assrape a patient on TV for the sole purpose of inflicting pain/humiliation and people would cheer because the victim was a peepee to House. Then the assrape victim became the villain for the entire season for trying to bring House to justice. Wild times.
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Those arcs never worked. They'd try to bring in an adversary, and he'd be completely in the right, and House never had to show humility or apologise, he just got out of whatever the trouble was.
Except for the Cutthroat B-word storyline the ongoing plots for House were pretty bad.
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Seasons 1-3 are kind mid because of the story arcs. I always found it funny that house is the only show where people rave about the later seasons and hate the early ones.
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But the Three Stories episode is in the first season, easily the best episode. But yes, it seems they preferred Chase and Cameron to be on the sidelines, no matter how much they were considered main cast after the first two seasons.
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Google AI is trying to run cover for the good Dr. House
Frick you AI. They specifically show that House inserts the thermometer for a non medical reason and makes it hard to remove while leaving him.
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Based off the last sentence the AI might be confusing the Tritter episode with the r*pe victim in the clinic episode.
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That last sentence is the main reason I bothered with the screenshot
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