Yeah, I didn't like that scene when she practically forced him to come to the engagement party passive-aggressively
BUT...when you're pushing 30 and you watch so many (less deserving) people around you have their own successful relationships, marriage, even children. You start to wonder when it's going to be your turn to move to the next level; have a spouse, perhaps start a family, etc. Hell, I would have got drunk at that annoying colleague's engagement party too!
Now successful women who are educated and did not partake in previously out-of-wedlock birthing ish say...in grade school, also get judged harshly for not having it all already.
I don't know about you, but lots of women have to go through this thing with their mothers reminding them of their biological clock. Maybe you want to meet someone and settle down, get married first, so then the countdown starts...and fast.
Sometimes doctors are even rude AF and will have the audacity to ask you "how many children do you have." NOT "do you have kids?", "How many" just by looking at your D.O.B on your chart. HMMPH. Won't even make eye-contact. My doc was asian though, so maybe it's an asian thing? I'm surprised she doesn't ask where my husband is and why do I keep my maiden name (never married, childless and in my mid-20s btw), she really doesn't know me at all, the bastard! But I digress. (I know, I know they haven't brought the want for children up in the show, but the educated childless woman was referenced in the 1st/2nd episode, I think, and it really got to me).
I understand completely why Molly got excited too soon but women like her need to stop being clingy, cause that's exactly what's pushing him away. I know that from experience.
Men like the chase, they like what they can't have.
Men can have babies in their 60s, so most in their 20s and 30s seem to be in no rush to find THE ONE...until they're about 50 and want a young'n to give them a young'n. Sad, but true.
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nunnehickc
8 years ago
It's especially funny because Molly has no clue this is why people aren't into her. She's like "I don't know what I'm doing wrong", because she's so blissfully self-unaware. She comes off as a control freak, doing subtle things, and that's a problem with the guys she's interested in. This same behavior probably wouldn't bother Jared at all, and would probably cause him to poke fun at it to help her grow.
It goes in with the idea that we all have rough lives in some regard, and that it would be so much easier if people could or would just say what they mean in these tricky situations. Molly doesn't even get why it was so bad for her to call Jared that first time. No one is willing to tell Issa what she's doing "wrong" at her job. Everyone is playing with each others' emotions, among many other ideas in the show. It's fascinating, and part of why the show comes off so realistically to me.
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exatera
8 years ago
No one is willing to tell Issa what she's doing "wrong" at her job.
Well, her boss did tell her that she's been on autopilot for years.
Unless you are referring to something else?..
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asc85
8 years ago
The Molly character is my favorite on the show. There are so many women like her out there, as well as men who are like her. I am a man, who got married very late in life (late 40's). I dealt with many of the issues she's struggling with, except that I wasn't as wealthy as her, or as good-looking as her.
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