Time & Perspective Quote by Josie Maran

There’s a quiet sting in Maran’s line: it’s not really about a console, it’s about competition you can’t win because you’re not even being asked to play. Coming from a model - someone whose job is to be looked at, chosen, prioritized - the complaint lands with extra bite. It punctures the old assumption that physical proximity or glamour automatically guarantees attention. In a culture that treats desirability like a superpower, she’s describing the moment it fails against something engineered to be maximally absorbing.

The wording matters. “Plenty of situations” frames it as a pattern, not a one-off bad boyfriend story. “More time for a console than me” turns intimacy into an allocation problem: attention as a scarce resource, love as scheduling. That’s a very modern relationship anxiety, one that sits at the intersection of tech design and emotional neglect. The console becomes a stand-in for any frictionless dopamine loop - gaming, scrolling, streaming - that offers reward without vulnerability.

There’s also a subtle gender script underneath it. The stereotype says men retreat into games; women are left performing patience, competing with machines for presence. Maran’s quote doesn’t moralize, but it does expose how normalized that imbalance can feel, to the point where it’s almost casual. That casualness is the point: the humiliation isn’t dramatic, it’s mundane, repeated, and socially legible.

She’s not condemning gaming so much as naming a contemporary intimacy test: if a device can consistently beat a partner for your attention, the relationship isn’t losing to entertainment; it’s losing to avoidance.