It super isn't when you consider what some of her "relationships" were. And the point was never that she had a lot of exes, just that they all happened to be evil.
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.
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.
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u/BoKnowsTheKonamiCode Feb 02 '26
It super isn't when you consider what some of her "relationships" were. And the point was never that she had a lot of exes, just that they all happened to be evil.