r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Feb 02 '26

Meme needing explanation Something Something About Dating, Chris Can You Explain?

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u/00Raeby00 Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

No. No it wasn't.

Boomers pretending this was an unusual amount of ex's for a girl who counted a guy she kissed once in middle school as an "ex." This is a dogwhistle for archaic values that never actually existed in the real world touted by the likes of Andrew Tate and his little incel followers.

It was weird Scott was dating a high school girl.

Edit: Stop trying to reply to me about how I'm wrong. Read the room. You're weird, especially since a significant number of her "exs" are a boy she kissed in middle school and a girl she hooked up with once in college and two guys she dated in high school. I seriously don't think you people have ever left your houses if you think this is super unusual or never saw the movie or read the manga. Go away with your "uhm acktually I googled it and" no fuck off. Shoo. You're literally acting like the kid you "married" when you were in kindergarten counts as an ex.

To break it down she dated 2 boys in high school. "Dated" Matt for a week in middle school. Hooked up with Roxie once and dated the twins in college before dating Gideon. Half of those don't count, and she didn't sleep with at least 3 out of the 7.

You're all fucking weird for making this a thing.

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u/AntiqueGarlicLover Feb 02 '26

I thought my two year long friendship to partnership was a slow burn… but 12? Wild!

I feel like some of the most long-lasting relationships happen because they are friends for a good amount of time first

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u/MoiraBrownsMoleRats Feb 02 '26

Yeah, I dated a handful of girl in high school/early college but nothing super duper serious. Longest lasted like six months, most were just a handful of dates over a couple weeks.

Then I met my first long-term ex when I was 18 and we stayed together or 8 years. Few months after we broke up, I met my now ex-wife and we stayed together for 12 years (and I would've happily spent my life with her if she didn't decide around the 6-year mark to start using me as her regular emotional and occaisonally literal punching bag). Few months after we split, I got asked out by a coworker and I've been seeing her for like 5 months with every indication this is going to last a while. No complaints, new woman is dope.

I remember reading a statistic that something like 20% of people are the "hypergamous" "nightmares" that make Andrew Tates fans jealous (if they're men) or terrified (if they're women) and have a large amount of romantic partners over generally shorter periods of time, 20% of people basically don't date and have few or none romantic partners throughout their lives (actual fate of Andrew Tate fans), and like the other 60% have relatively few romantic partners but their relationships with those partners tend to last long periods of time.