Y'all, MP absolutely got the bag (for those in denial). Almost a decade later but better late than never. Her ring is clearly an engagement ring (if you dig enough, there are better angles) and not like her usual Hank Moody-style rings.
And DD might be a selfish and self-absorbed idiot who let Tea Leoni slip through his fingers, but it'd be a seriously messed up, selfish, and self-absorbed move to let your sugar baby get a permanent tattoo of your initial when your daughter is also tagging along if you haven't planned some kind of permanent arrangement. Like, it's a bad example?? That's just not someone who's planning on dumping anyone anytime soon. (He had to have gotten her initial too, ESPECIALLY since he did the tattoo thing with Tea. There's no way he didn't. The excuse to not get one went out the door the second he accompanied her to this appointment. If he didn't get her initial in return, can you say AWKWARD?)
DD's worshippers will be squealing about this soon on Twitter, though -- which gets into my feed because of how their accounts intersect with XF content I follow. (Them, usually: Anyone who dares judge their BFF David Duchovny is just a GA-obsessed hater and also jealous. DD is just so fragile and precious and his honor must be defended at all costs. And he's sooooo in love with his GF. Anyone who can't see that is a big old meanie.)
It's so sad to watch. They post their 6,565,676 pictures of them with him from following him around and I look at those pictures and pity them. Don't they see that DD is kinda grossed out when they're LITERALLY clinging to him. That he would *kill* to have a young crowd of fans instead? And that if the crowd were all young girls, then we'd get a Taylor Swift Eras-length neverending tour from him.
It is such a disappointment when semi-intelligent men end up like this (taking their sugar baby with their almost same-aged daughter to get a tattoo representing... him. I just can't.) It's like, they know better.
It's so petty, but sometimes I wish more men got a taste of their own medicine -- to live in a society where you're treated as invisible at his age. That feeling of invisibility that all women go through past a certain age is partly a consequence of society letting men get away with this behavior.
And I say this as someone still young. I know what's coming, though.
It's all so gross. (Clearly, to a certain extent, it's also mindless entertainment for me and others to comment on since we do form parasocial relationships with celebrities at varying degrees, but I think the point still stands!)
