It’s interesting how the lack of indoor plumbing has come up separately in the last two seasons, firstly with Dempsey and now with Rob.

Both Dempsey and Rob want children, but don’t have indoor plumbing. I’ve seen lots of people mention how its delusional of Rob to want children when he doesn’t have indoor plumbing, but nobody do the same with Dempsey.

Now, I think most people would agree Rob is a douche and Dempsey is a saint, or at the very least a decent person because of their behaviour on the show.

But it’s interesting how most redditors will jump on Rob’s lack of indoor plumbing as a way to criticise him, and yet barely anyone used that against Dempsey.

I get it, Rob’s a douche, he needs humbling so people will throw whatever they can at him. But people are using indoor plumbing as some sort of benchmark for what a piece of shit he is, and not using the same metric with Dempsey. I feel like it’s just used as a shorthand to criticise everything else about Rob (that is definitely worth criticising).

I’m not saying its wrong. I’m just interested by this behaviour.

  • StomachDifferent2532@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Sure, his lack of indoor plumbing is just an easy thing to come after because his personality fucking sucks.

    He also refuses to acknowledge it as a disadvantage. Dempsey is able to admit that the toilet and lack of comforts will be difficult for Statler to adjust to, so much so, she doesnt know if Statler should move in with her at all. However, Rob pretends the outhouse is akin to any regular, living situation and that Sophie expressing any dissatisfaction about the bathroom is nothing more than a reflection of her privilege.

    While Dempsey is just another person on reality TV that I don’t know; she presents to have self awareness and consideration of her partner. While Rob consistently displays self-centered behavior and doesn’t even seem to like Sophie as a person.

    It’s less about the bathroom and more about him as a human being. Because talk of kids, for someone like him? Emotionally that is literally putting the cart before the horse. He’d be nothing but trauma to a child, he doesnt have a modicum of self awareness.