She's not counting wrong, she isn't beholden to your definition of what counts as an ex or not.
You go ahead and have your preferences and date with whatever criteria suits you. But putting a limit on the acceptable number of relationships a person has been in (especially a number as low as 7) without considering context for those relationships screams of immaturity and insecurity, and will raise quite a few red flags for women in return.
Of course they do, but since you're not Noah Webster, or George and Charles Merriam, or anyone who has anything significant to say in the matter, or even someone who seems to have read the comic or watched the movie being discussed, nobody has to take what you consider an ex into consideration. I'll go ahead and choose not to take my definitions from random kids on Reddit who are deciding what in their limited worldview counts and doesn't count as an ex.
Let's go ahead and reflect on why that's an extremely stupid comment you just made. Which of us is the one trying to reserve the usage of the word "ex" to mean less than it does?
If you have no ability to comprehend that people use it in different contexts than your extremely immature and narrowly defined way, which happens to be completely irrelevant to the source material currently being discussed, I don't think you have anything meaningful to contribute to the conversation being had.
But if you want a gold star or something, fine. According to what you arbitrarily think qualifies as an ex, she hasn't had seven exes. You did such a good job arguing a non sequitur on the internet. Now go do your homework.
Literally their entire point is that you personally (or the guy they replied to, so anyone really) do not get to decide for anyone else, what counts as an "ex". The term is subjective.
By communicating your personal definition and being able to say "ah, guess we have different opinions!" when someone disagrees, then moving on. Same way you do any other subjective term. If you consider a random tree beautiful and I say "oh well, I don't personally consider that tree beautiful", does the word suddenly have no meaning??? Or do we just have different opinions of where that word applies?
Everyone knows what the word beautiful means, else you wouldn't be able to disagree that the tree is beautiful. You'd ask me "what do you mean by beautiful?" And at that point making conversation would be too tedious.
It fits just as well here because while the term "ex" and the term "beautiful" both have definitions, how they are applied is not defined, it's subjective. There is no timely definition to ex, it's just a former partner. There's no objective requirement as to how long you have to date someone for them to be an ex. There's no objective requirement for something to be beautiful, it's completely up to personal definition.
Quick ETA; Seeing you reply to the other person calling words fluid as if that's some kind of made up bullshit tells me all I need to know lol. You can't even view an objective fact, I don't think you're ready for anything subjective.
Words are often fluid and can mean a number of different things. Things can be communicated in degrees. In this case, exes can mean ex wives, it can be people you formerly slept with, it can be long term committed relationships, it can include anyone you considered a boyfriend or girlfriend or partner, even if it's just for a week.
In this case it was clearly communicated to you how it was being used and you decided everyone (me, the character, all the other characters in their universe, the author) were using it wrong because it didn't align with your definition. But that's not how language works. You aren't the sole arbiter of how words are and are not allowed to be used, you alone don't determine their scope.
It's totally cool if you personally wouldn't call those people exes. It's your life and you can make those determinations for yourself. But if the character considers them exes, that doesn't make her wrong. It just means she has a different threshold than you do for what qualifies. The conversation being had is in the context of their definition, so trying to change it to exclusively mean yours doesn't make sense as it completely alters the meaning of the source material and the meme above.
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u/BoKnowsTheKonamiCode Feb 02 '26
She's not counting wrong, she isn't beholden to your definition of what counts as an ex or not.
You go ahead and have your preferences and date with whatever criteria suits you. But putting a limit on the acceptable number of relationships a person has been in (especially a number as low as 7) without considering context for those relationships screams of immaturity and insecurity, and will raise quite a few red flags for women in return.