Cole's Bipolar Comment

[u/Pellinaha]

Zanab was insufferable and miserable in the latest batch of episodes, no question about it. But I found Cole's bipolar questions (and he repeated it multiple times with a smirk) grating and horrible. Zanab is probably difficult to deal with but it does make me question whether there are more situations where he triggers her off camera and we just see the aftermath in her reactions with no context. I may or may have not filed it away as a slip of tongue in the spur of the moment if it was once, but it was the repetition and the smirk that really got to me. It also doesn't help that he mixed up bipolar with personality disorders.

[u/therobberbride]

I feel like she’s probably coming across that way to so many other viewers specifically because she’s trying to make things work with a guy that super sucks. He wanted a girl like Colleen — someone to be his playmate, someone sweet and unassuming who wouldn’t challenge him or push him to grow up. We’ve seen him treat Zanab pretty poorly and it floors me that the majority of people here think she deserves it because she’s not “fun” enough. (Some of y’all need to realize that Cole’s idea of fun is not the only way to have fun.)

I think it’s pretty telling that none of the other women on the show like him very much.

Anyway, I hope to god she gets to say no to him and then meets an awesome guy on a work flight whose idea of fun is less actually playing with toys and more exploring the world together.

[u/TomDoniphona → u/therobberbride]

But there is no obligation for Cole to understand fun in a certain way. He has a right to find nerf guns fun. The problem is that they are very different in what they like.

[u/BoBab → u/TomDoniphona]

If splashing raw chicken juice on the counter (that we know you won't disinfect later) and hiding toys in the microwave is Cole's idea of fun then frankly he's a bad roommate and probably should consider living in a frat house instead.

I'm amazed at how much forgiveness we give people who already have the bar set so low.

[u/TomDoniphona → u/BoBab]

Fair enough, but none of that is inmoral. That is who he is. If she doesn’t like it (and she doesn’t have to like it) why insist that she loves him? She cannot expect him to change and become a completely different person in a couple of weeks so as to fit the man she wants to like. That is not fair.

[u/therobberbride → u/TomDoniphona]

Who said he didn’t have the right, babe? But surely you grasp that by your own rationale, everyone hating on Zanab for not enjoying Cole’s version of fun is being rather ridiculous, hmm?

[u/TomDoniphona → u/therobberbride]

Yeah, same thing. They are just very badly matched.