The problem with the Sheldon/Amy problem is that the writers don't seem them a good couple unless there is something external pushing Sheldon. It's the same with Leonard and Penny. She never seems awfully invested (as she says she is) in her relationship with Leonard. Not even that, sometimes she says stuff that sound…

Sheldon said she was severely under tipped for her strong character. And then she said she was a bad waitress.

The ones that purposefully said they don't like the couple?

I think Sheldon should be knocked down a notch or two, but I don't see how me thinking Leonard and Penny are not great together has anything to do with Sheldon and Penny.

Exactly. I have to give it to the writers, they usually write the stage before the couples go out in a more charming light, I even found myself rooting for them in some instances, but they just have to fuck them up when they are finally together. I liked the pre-"Lenny" in season two, when the seed of their attraction…

Here is the problem with that thought. I think true equality of gender is about people being able to do whatever they want, however they want, without having others judge them for it.

Exactly. It was not much before (talking about season 1-3). Barely there, but it has come back really strongly now. It's disgusting.

Sheldon has never called men slaves to their baser urges. Not including the "I'm superior to every human being" in him, he also manages to be sexist. Not only now, but before, just enough for me to blink at the lack of that ideology when Leonard's mom and Dr. Plimpton appeared. It was pleasantly surprising to note he…

I cringed a lot in this episode, but it was the good type of cringe. Does that make sense?

Aurora of Sleeping Beauty.

All of them ranged from 14-18 in the original stories I believe.

You need new friends.

Sometimes I think they made him a jerk to solidify his relationship with Amy.

This was such a joy to read.

No, I know that. Leonard said so himself. Sheldon is not stingy with the money. I was not talking about the quantity he used for Amy's gift.

I like the way you think. The problem is she doesn't seem to want to get out of that hole she is stuck in. Then it comes that no matter how much self-destructive she might be. She doesn't seem all that happy to be with Leonard. And it doesn't even look like she is denying herself, it just looks like Leonard does not…

The problem here is, the writers don't seem to think they are doomed.

Sheldon's money bothered me a little.

Penny and Leonard's relationship is so full of contradictions it's harder to take it seriously.

But that's where the subjective points come in. I neither think Penny considers Leonard childish, nor Sheldon thinks Amy's desires are a problem. First because Penny already said she is afraid things won't work (I say that's just the writers' device to blame the stunted growth of their relationship on Penny), and…