This election is best described as the year that white people started voting as an ethnic bloc. All the other previous divisions went away.

Re: Raj/Amy….yeah, but…why would you, when Amy signed the break-up agreement? If, technically, they are broken up, and Amy starts to act like it, there is much more potential for merriment than simply hooking up the sad "why doesn't anybody love me" man with "why won't my boyfriend touch me" woman.

I deliberately used an exaggerated example.

That was really sad to watch. Mayim Bialik did a masterful job acting it, too—I just felt crushed watching the whole thing play out.

She isn't manipulating everybody and she isn't manipulating everybody all the time. That's the thing you might be missing?

Another poster upthread nailed it….it's not Raj being uninterested in a transgender woman as a partner. It's the fact that said hypothetical woman is the punchline for a ugly joke in poor taste.

The failure mode of "clever" is "asshole." The joke about Hurr Durr Trans Women wasn't funny, and it wasn't the kind of un-funny thing that contributes to plot or character development later on, and it was an asshole thing to say.

Ugh, anything but Raj/Amy. For one, way to kill character development for both of them….oh, let's just pair off the sad and awkward two, nobody will notice. For another, there was that Penny/Raj whatever thing. Do we want to establish Raj as either the sloppy seconds for the women in the group, or as that sad…

Concur.

Getting shot down with a "wow you have serious boundary issues" is a setup for some great character development for Raj, although how heartbreaking to see Amy finally starting to reach out to friends outside the group and have him ruin it in such a boneheaded way. Between Sheldon and Raj, with friends like those, Amy…