In the episode Bagpipes Marshall Lily’s husband talks to his friends Barney and Ted while they have a drink at the pub. Marshall talks to them about a problem with him and Lily. The scenario is happens when Marshall talks about how Lily makes him clean his dishes as soon as he put them in the sink because Lily likes a clean sink. Marshall doesn’t seem to mind but deep down he really doesn’t enjoy doing it right away. Barney explains that his relationship with Robin is so much easier because he takes control of the situation. Barney describes a scenario were he is Lily’s husband and tells her no when she asks him to wash the dishes and explains that she wouldn’t quiet understand the reason because she is a women which is already disrespectful towards women. The argument also reinforces that men should not wash the dishes and that it is a women’s job. Barney also explains that when ever he is about to fight with Robbin that she just starts undressing which reinforces the male gaze theory.
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