In this episode of How I Met Your Mother it is titled Jenkins for the name of the lawyer of Lily’s husbands lawyer friend. Marshal speaks about crazy stories about how they party and all of the wild antics they get into. As he is telling his stories the friends assume the gender of Jenkins is male however it is a women and immediately it is given a bad connotation that men cannot have women friends without sleeping with them. Jenkins is sexualized in a way just because of her gender but wasn’t if she was a man. This goes with the male Gaze Theory because she is immediately objectified upon finding out her gender and Barney even goes as far as trying to make it a mission to sleep with her which he eventually does by the end of the episode.
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