I decided to analyze the television show How I Met Your Mother more specifically the character Barney Stinson who plays a man obsessed with sexual desires and the methods in which getting those desires. I watched season 5 episode 8 which was titled the “playbook” in reference to the main point of the episode. In the episode we are taken through a book that Barney created called the playbook which contains different ways in which he picks up women the next more elaborate than the last. The theory that best fits Barney is the Gaze Theory which focuses on the objectification or having people represented as objects of desire. In this case it is women Barney is trying to sleep with and the elaborate plans he formulated to bed these women.
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