In this episode called Erickson’s is an episode where the gang are talking about their future at the pub. Barney speaks about his ambitions to sleep with a lot of women, Ted speaks about how he wants a wife and children and a good architecture career. This get Marshall and Lily thinking about their future and how they want to start having children. They go visit some of their close friends who have just had a newborn daughter. They go over what they might name the girl and go through names such as Tiffany but that is considered a whore name bringing negative connotation to women with that name. This continues throughout the show as Marshall and Lily think about all the bad experiences they have had with girls and boys they have met with those names that can only remind them of the horrific incident they experienced. Marshall starts to imagine having a daughter and how he might raise her and that she may become a stripper. Marshall takes his father’s advice and goes through elaborate lengths such as eating fish and dumping his manhood in ice water to try and make sure when the time comes, they would have a boy. The episode relates the premise of the male gaze when it talks about all the women Marshall has met and how he imagined his daughter as a stripper. This gives a negative role to women in society and objectifies them.
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