He is an insensitive jerk who cries (literally) about how bad he has it. He is a hypocrite. He claims he wants a girl who loves him and then qualifys it by saying she needs to be a supermodel who loves him unconditionally without any effort on his part.

I would like to see him end up with a strong Indian woman who doesn't put up with his crap. It worked for Howard.

@wonder2wonder said:

S10E14 "The Emotion Detection Automation"

1. Sheldon: He doesn't like games.

2. Sheldon: He thinks he is better than Isaac Newton.

3. Lucy: He is insensitive to other people's boundaries.

4. Claire: He is really needy, incredibly vain.

5. Emily, the dermatologist: Whenever he and she were in bed...

6. Both Emily's & Claire: He is (kind of!) a momma's boy.

Conclusion: They all (even Howard) needed to go through the Raj' experience to know what exactly they don't want in a man. So, all of them went to a better relationship before or after Raj.

Is he really a schmuck? Are they right?

Raj is clingy, needy and insecure. Nobody wants to be with someone like that.

[@CalabrianQueen] Raj is clingy, needy and insecure. Nobody wants to be with someone like that.

That about sums it up very quickly. I'll expound a bit with my own thoughts.

One thing, he NEVER casually dates anyone. The first time he see a woman he's attracted to, they are automatically (in his mind) his wife and mother of his children. I doubt most women want to leap right to that status with Raj (or anyone).

Personally, a slow burn relationship worked out the best for me. I had worked with and was friends with my wife for over a year before we started dating. We had gone out for drinks after work, gone to the bar, and to some concerts, as friends. Then something happened, and we dated for a year, and then were married a year later. We've been married for 24 years - and RARELY have arguments or fights. The WORST relationships for me were the fast burns - where we jumped right in and one or the other had wild expectations - like Raj seems to have.

Now, it's just my opinion, but I think, unless BOTH have this 'jump to the end' mentality, the other person, in this case, Raj's girlfriends, can pick up on Raj's wildly irrational expectations. All that does then is to push the pressure level up to the point where the relationship explodes fast, if it ever gets to the actual 'relationship' stage in the first place.

Raj, by showering some women with gifts, bought and paid for by his parents, leaves himself open to gold-diggers, like that deaf girl who kicked him to the curb like last week's garbage the moment he cut off the presents.

His behavior when he THOUGHT he had slept with Penny shows, in a nutshell, what a horses ass he is. He's not only a needy, clingy, insecure jerk with the woman, but he then turns to his friends and acts like he's suddenly Clark Gable. He pompous towards them, bragging, and acting superior, somehow forgetting his entire history with women up until that point. And let's not forget how he behaved when he was attracted to the custodian/janitor/cleaning lady he was attracted to. He was ashamed. Raj is a real class act. (Yes - that's sarcasm for the Sheldon's who are reading this).

And when he HAD a relationship that was working, with Emily, he screwed it up by dating Claire at the same time, and then lost them both.

The way they have written Raj's character, it's mighty hard to feel any empathy or pity for him. I feel more of that for Stuart than I've ever felt for Raj.

@censorshipsucks06 said:

[@CalabrianQueen] Raj is clingy, needy and insecure. Nobody wants to be with someone like that.

That about sums it up very quickly. I'll expound a bit with my own thoughts.

One thing, he NEVER casually dates anyone. The first time he see a woman he's attracted to, they are automatically (in his mind) his wife and mother of his children. I doubt most women want to leap right to that status with Raj (or anyone).

Personally, a slow burn relationship worked out the best for me. I had worked with and was friends with my wife for over a year before we started dating. We had gone out for drinks after work, gone to the bar, and to some concerts, as friends. Then something happened, and we dated for a year, and then were married a year later. We've been married for 24 years - and RARELY have arguments or fights. The WORST relationships for me were the fast burns - where we jumped right in and one or the other had wild expectations - like Raj seems to have.

Now, it's just my opinion, but I think, unless BOTH have this 'jump to the end' mentality, the other person, in this case, Raj's girlfriends, can pick up on Raj's wildly irrational expectations. All that does then is to push the pressure level up to the point where the relationship explodes fast, if it ever gets to the actual 'relationship' stage in the first place.

Raj, by showering some women with gifts, bought and paid for by his parents, leaves himself open to gold-diggers, like that deaf girl who kicked him to the curb like last week's garbage the moment he cut off the presents.

His behavior when he THOUGHT he had slept with Penny shows, in a nutshell, what a horses ass he is. He's not only a needy, clingy, insecure jerk with the woman, but he then turns to his friends and acts like he's suddenly Clark Gable. He pompous towards them, bragging, and acting superior, somehow forgetting his entire history with women up until that point. And let's not forget how he behaved when he was attracted to the custodian/janitor/cleaning lady he was attracted to. He was ashamed. Raj is a real class act. (Yes - that's sarcasm for the Sheldon's who are reading this).

And when he HAD a relationship that was working, with Emily, he screwed it up by dating Claire at the same time, and then lost them both.

The way they have written Raj's character, it's mighty hard to feel any empathy or pity for him. I feel more of that for Stuart than I've ever felt for Raj.

Agreed. I learned the hard way once , stage 5 clingers who start imagining a future in the early stages of a relationship usually make the person they're with run the opposite direction.

[@CalabrianQueen] Agreed. I learned the hard way once , stage 5 clingers who start imagining a future in the early stages of a relationship usually make the person they're with run the opposite direction.

For a few years in the mid-80's, I took relationships WAY to seriously. And when they ended, it was a disaster. about 1986 I openly stated I was done with seeking a serious relationship. I was going to concentrate on having fun while I was young. And that if something serious DID come along, I'd realize it. But that I wasn't going to be actively searching for it. Man - I had five of the best years of my life. All the while, watching friends, male and female, get wrapped up in the BS of relationships. Me? And then, as I said, something different would happen - and as I described above - it did. It was AWESOME to get into a relationship with someone I was already friends with for over a year. We knew we genuinely liked each other, had many things in common, and thought the same way about most things.

That won't work for everyone. But it sure did for me. ;)