{"id":3337,"date":"2016-07-01T09:59:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T04:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:00:03","slug":"how-i-met-your-mother-14-years-barney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3337","title":{"rendered":"14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">B<\/span><\/p><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">efore there was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/netflix-books-readers-block\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Netflix<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Hotstar, and Amazon Prime, before the days of YouTube and endless streaming, there was only <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">F.R.I.E.N.D.S. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fourteen years ago, the massiest sitcom India had access to, was a mess of breathless reruns \u2013 when along came came a show that could cater to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/seinfeld-friends-jerry-seinfeld-elaine-sitcoms-comedy\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">F.R.I.E.N.D.S<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">loyalists with an added layer of relevance and coolness. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How I Met Your Mother<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> combined the ingenuity of sitcoms and its trademark flashbacks and flashforwards to hook audiences for nine seasons \u2013 all in service of a one-line plot. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A fresh take on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">F.R.I.E.N.D.S<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> also needed an update on Joey Tribbiani. Enter Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris), part-time friend and full-time catchphrase generator. Barney wore Armani suits, drank \u201cAmerican Scotch from Scotland\u201d (and the occasional gin and tonic), and peddled <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/fake-news-smriti-irani-narendra-modi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fake news<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> long before sanghis made it cool. Barney lived by the overtly fetishised \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/bro-code-toxic-masculinity-woke-men\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bro code<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d and instantly metamorphosed into both the show\u2019s most glorified character and its most popular one. The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HIMYM<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> writers exalted the idea of Barney\u2019s emotional indifference to an extent that it became sort of aspirational. So many boys who became men, while the show blared on TVs, grew up wanting to be Barney, the man who could get away with his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/launda-desi-frat-boy-mansplain-dudebros-misogynist\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">misogyny<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because he was legen\u2026 wait for it\u2026 dary!<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But despite Barney\u2019s effortless smoothness with women, he also hated them. How can a womaniser hate women, you ask? If you think about it, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/arre-checklist-humans-of-housing-society\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">misogyny<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is inextricably linked with men like Barney, because how else do you instantly reduce women to mere conquests? In the show, Barney dehumanises women to the extent of rating them on their physical attributes on a scale of one to 10. To him, every decision a woman made in her life \u2013 wearing a short skirt to work or being a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/invisibles\/india-mumbai-jj-hospital-nurse-death-international-nurses-day\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nurse<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 is suggestive of how \u201ceasy\u201d she can be; merely a distance between her and his bed. And he was ready to go to any lengths to have sex with women, like coming up with an offensive \u201cPlaybook\u201d that bragged about the countless ways he\u2019d scammed women.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking back at the show, it\u2019s almost infuriating to see the countless clues to his ingrained misogyny in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HIMYM\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s nine seasons. An episode titled \u201cPerfect Week\u201d in the show\u2019s fifth season is essentially a paean to Barney treating sex with seven women in seven days without getting <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/asking-men-superpower-dating-hookups\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rejected<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as a sport. In another titled \u201cThe Bracket\u201d, Barney blames a mystery woman for sabotaging his chances at picking up <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/why-do-men-spread-their-legs-and-women-cross-theirs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">women<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. When he at last learns of her identity and fails to remember her, he believes that forgetting her is the worst thing he can do to a woman while admitting that he practically sold a woman once.<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>In HIMYM then, Barney\u2019s misogyny didn\u2019t just get a pass \u2013 it got validation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the most deplorable evidence of Barney\u2019s hatred for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/women-staff-mumbai-railways\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">women<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> comes in the show\u2019s sixth season in an episode titled \u201cBlitzgiving\u201d when the gang is hanging out at MacLarens, sans Ted. When Ted\u2019s nemesis Zoey walks in, Lily suggests that they should come up with a plan to teach her a lesson. Barney\u2019s response? A plan that involved leaving her somewhere \u201cbuck naked and covered in candle wax\u201d. Horrified, Marshal asks him, \u201cI know Ted doesn\u2019t like that girl, but isn\u2019t that a little extreme?\u201d and to that Barney feigns ignorance at finding out that Ted doesn\u2019t like the girl. What could be more of a giveaway of his hatred toward women than plotting revenge against a woman he hardly knows? What\u2019s even worse is how quickly the show forgets the magnitude of this violent line and distracts your attention with a harmless quip.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HIMYM<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> then, Barney\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/launda-desi-frat-boy-mansplain-dudebros-misogynist\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">misogyny<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> didn\u2019t just get a pass \u2013 it got validation. The writers, and by extension the camera, was always sympathetic to how it viewed his misdemeanours. Not only did we rarely know events from the perspective of the faceless women taking up a frame with Barney, but we were also sold a disguise of a lost man who just sleeps around because he\u2019s afraid of the hurt that accompanies emotional attachment. Moreover, the gang \u2013 who only made intermittent comments about how pathetic he was \u2013 never truly called Barney out in a way that would have forced him to reflect or address his behaviour. Even worse, they helped him trick women into sleeping with women. When Robin wasn\u2019t suiting up to be his \u201cwingman\u201d, the gang was celebrating Barney\u2019s \u201csuccess\u201d in sleeping with seven women in a week because apparently, such \u201csports\u201d cheered them up when they were feeling <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/the-sad-truth-about-punjab\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">low<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1537354386.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-39629\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\">\n<figcaption>\n<p>The HIMYM writers exalted the idea of Barney\u2019s emotional indifference to an extent that it became sort of aspirational.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: Bays &#038; Thomas Productions<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In case you were wondering, Barney\u2019s behaviour was also explained by the tried-and-tested route of parental issues. The show made it a point to highlight how unhealthy his relationship was with his mother, who wasn\u2019t just a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/swipe-right-on-promiscuity-before-marriage\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">promiscuous<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> woman who hid his father\u2019s identity from him but also mollycoddled him. Also explored was the genesis of Barney the \u201cplayer\u201d: his college girlfriend cheating on him for the kind of womaniser he eventually becomes. There\u2019s nothing wrong with using such tropes \u2013 as overused as they might be \u2013 had the show derived some commentary out of it that dealt with how emotionally handicapped some men eventually grow up to be. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HIMYM<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> used it as a justification for Barney being an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/online-harassment-women-harvey-weinstein-me-too\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">urban creep<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with zero remorse. One who was really just waiting for the right woman to come along and transform him into a decent human being. In the controversial series finale for instance, Barney exploited his unsuccessful <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/is-marriage-where-feminist-dreams-go-to-die\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">marriage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with Robin as an excuse to go back to his philandering ways because, \u201cIf it didn\u2019t work out with Robin, it wouldn\u2019t work out with anyone.\u201d At the same time, what eventually makes him a half-decent human being is having a daughter. In both cases, it\u2019s implied that the onus is on the women to better the men in their lives. <\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1537354395.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-39628\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\">\n<figcaption>\n<p>In the show, Barney dehumanises women to the extent of rating them on their physical attributes on a scale of one to 10.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: Bays &#038; Thomas Productions<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These lazy deflection devices underline how little the show\u2019s creators really understand women and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/dating-relationships-tinder\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">relationships<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And regardless of how many gags <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HIMYM<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had, or how much its idea of love resonated with us, its glorification of a man as toxic as Barney Stinson remains unforgivable. Even 14 years later.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Barney Stinson\u2019s effortless smoothness with women, he hated them. How can a womaniser hate women, you ask? If you think about it, misogyny is inextricably linked with men like Barney, because how else do you instantly reduce women to mere conquests?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":3341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[3962,6457,6458,2227,2963],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-barney","tag-f-r-i-e-n-d-s","tag-himym","tag-how-i-met-your-mother","tag-tv-show"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Despite Barney Stinson\u2019s effortless smoothness with women, he hated them. How can a womaniser hate women, you ask? If you think about it, misogyny is inextricably linked with men like Barney, because how else do you instantly reduce women to mere conquests?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Despite Barney Stinson\u2019s effortless smoothness with women, he hated them. How can a womaniser hate women, you ask? If you think about it, misogyny is inextricably linked with men like Barney, because how else do you instantly reduce women to mere conquests?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Arr\u00e9\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-07-01T04:29:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-07-17T15:00:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1537354840.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1520\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"850\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bhaskar Chawla\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Despite Barney Stinson\u2019s effortless smoothness with women, he hated them. How can a womaniser hate women, you ask? If you think about it, misogyny is inextricably linked with men like Barney, because how else do you instantly reduce women to mere conquests?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bhaskar Chawla\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=3337#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=3337\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Bhaskar Chawla\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/471345d6e48e54ccb6dcd293f62c510b\"},\"headline\":\"14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-07-01T04:29:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-17T15:00:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=3337\"},\"wordCount\":1137,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=3337#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.207.105.184\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/1537354840.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"barney\",\"F.R.I.E.N.D.S\",\"HIMYM\",\"how i met your mother\",\"TV show\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Pop Culture\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=3337\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=3337\",\"name\":\"14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=3337#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=3337#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.207.105.184\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/1537354840.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-07-01T04:29:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-17T15:00:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/471345d6e48e54ccb6dcd293f62c510b\"},\"description\":\"Despite Barney Stinson\u2019s effortless smoothness with women, he hated them. How can a womaniser hate women, you ask? If you think about it, misogyny is inextricably linked with men like Barney, because how else do you instantly reduce women to mere conquests?\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=3337#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=3337\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=3337#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.207.105.184\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/1537354840.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.207.105.184\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/1537354840.jpg\",\"width\":1520,\"height\":850},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=3337#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/\",\"name\":\"Arr\u00e9\",\"description\":\"In every person lies a creator and in every creator, an enterprise.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/471345d6e48e54ccb6dcd293f62c510b\",\"name\":\"Bhaskar Chawla\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/b025257c015149d9d629c95e6d4758c693c6db93f86fc4b9b878ea9331c5cca1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/b025257c015149d9d629c95e6d4758c693c6db93f86fc4b9b878ea9331c5cca1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/b025257c015149d9d629c95e6d4758c693c6db93f86fc4b9b878ea9331c5cca1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Bhaskar Chawla\"},\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.207.105.184\\\/?author=176\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney","description":"Despite Barney Stinson\u2019s effortless smoothness with women, he hated them. How can a womaniser hate women, you ask? If you think about it, misogyny is inextricably linked with men like Barney, because how else do you instantly reduce women to mere conquests?","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney","og_description":"Despite Barney Stinson\u2019s effortless smoothness with women, he hated them. How can a womaniser hate women, you ask? If you think about it, misogyny is inextricably linked with men like Barney, because how else do you instantly reduce women to mere conquests?","og_url":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337","og_site_name":"Arr\u00e9","article_published_time":"2016-07-01T04:29:17+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-07-17T15:00:03+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1520,"height":850,"url":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1537354840.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Bhaskar Chawla","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney","twitter_description":"Despite Barney Stinson\u2019s effortless smoothness with women, he hated them. How can a womaniser hate women, you ask? If you think about it, misogyny is inextricably linked with men like Barney, because how else do you instantly reduce women to mere conquests?","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Bhaskar Chawla","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337"},"author":{"name":"Bhaskar Chawla","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/#\/schema\/person\/471345d6e48e54ccb6dcd293f62c510b"},"headline":"14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney","datePublished":"2016-07-01T04:29:17+00:00","dateModified":"2026-07-17T15:00:03+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337"},"wordCount":1137,"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1537354840.jpg","keywords":["barney","F.R.I.E.N.D.S","HIMYM","how i met your mother","TV show"],"articleSection":["Pop Culture"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337","url":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337","name":"14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1537354840.jpg","datePublished":"2016-07-01T04:29:17+00:00","dateModified":"2026-07-17T15:00:03+00:00","author":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/#\/schema\/person\/471345d6e48e54ccb6dcd293f62c510b"},"description":"Despite Barney Stinson\u2019s effortless smoothness with women, he hated them. How can a womaniser hate women, you ask? If you think about it, misogyny is inextricably linked with men like Barney, because how else do you instantly reduce women to mere conquests?","breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1537354840.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1537354840.jpg","width":1520,"height":850},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3337#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/#website","url":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/","name":"Arr\u00e9","description":"In every person lies a creator and in every creator, an enterprise.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/#\/schema\/person\/471345d6e48e54ccb6dcd293f62c510b","name":"Bhaskar Chawla","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b025257c015149d9d629c95e6d4758c693c6db93f86fc4b9b878ea9331c5cca1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b025257c015149d9d629c95e6d4758c693c6db93f86fc4b9b878ea9331c5cca1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b025257c015149d9d629c95e6d4758c693c6db93f86fc4b9b878ea9331c5cca1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Bhaskar Chawla"},"url":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?author=176"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1537354840.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}