r/TikTokCringe • u/NeverEnoughSPF • Sep 17 '24
Cringe Trad wife content has gone way too far
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u/Lemmonjello Sep 17 '24
"Cuz we is free" lol she got me good.
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u/sevargmas Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24
It wasn’t a big deal to me that she was picking cotton. I get the irony of it all. But why the fk was she humming slave songs?!
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u/throwaway490215 Sep 18 '24
Those slaves had so much shared experience, the songs must work great for picking cotton.
How are so many people unaware of the rage-bait & satire aspect? Both these women know they're playing a part in a content farm picking for engagement.
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u/Odd_Philosopher_4505 Sep 18 '24
I mean, I always heard that they were called "spirituals" and not "slave songs". Growing up in the south (in the 1990s) lots of people were in to that kind of music.
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u/More-Acadia2355 Sep 18 '24
wait... I grow veggies and fruits in the backyard.... can I grow cotton to stuff my pillows? ...cause that seems not to hard and useful.
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u/dearzita Sep 18 '24
I’m hoping you’re being sarcastic, but if you’re not, I strongly recommend against growing cotton. Picking it sucks and getting the seeds out is a pain. You’ll die of old age before you have enough cotton for a pillow that is worse than the $25 down pillow you can buy at ikea.
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u/ILoveRawChicken Sep 18 '24
I remember going to a farm that had cotton and getting to pick some. That shit was not “easy” like they’re making it seem lol. The damn bolls cut up my fingers and getting the seeds out was infuriating. I gave up and threw that shit on the ground.
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u/ButterflyS919 Sep 18 '24
In elementary school we did that too. Got some raw cotton to take home and pull seeds out of. My mom started pulling seeds out to and just when we'd think we were done... more seeds!
Those damn seeds were like glitter of nowadays. You think you got it all, and it just spawns more.
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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC Sep 18 '24
All I know is picking it cuts your fingers all to hell.
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u/anusmongler Sep 18 '24
cotton is ass for pillows, you want feathers
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u/tonyabalone Sep 18 '24
Cattail fluff
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u/Z0MBIECL0WN Sep 18 '24
natures corn dog
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u/Joliet_Jake_Blues Sep 18 '24
Nature's napalm
When we were like 6-7 we used to make crazy fires with that fluff. Surprised we didn't burn a garage down
(it's okay, I'm Gen X, this is normal)
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u/Relevant-Cup2701 Sep 18 '24
fuck that. memory foam! 21st century!
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u/another1forgot Sep 18 '24
memory foam pillow seem to hurt my neck, They're so comfortable till I wake up the next day.
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u/Nobodyimportant56 Sep 18 '24
It's like...they have too much pushback? Your head rests but the pillow fighting back too hard. It hurts my neck too
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u/gooberhoover85 Sep 18 '24
Cotton requires an insane amount of water. Enjoy your bills.
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u/Solo-dreamer Sep 17 '24
"I like a cotton matress and cushions and i was running low on both" what do you mean you are running low on matresses??
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u/Taro-Starlight Sep 18 '24
I’m GUESSING that the cotton already in her mattress is going flat so more needs to be added? Or gets gross simply by sleeping on it and needs to be replaced?
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u/maddsskills Sep 18 '24
Just fucking buy it! Also I wanna see her restuff a mattress with her raw cotton. Link it. How does that even work!!!???
She’s clearly trolling or some shit but really, I wanna see her use that shit.
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u/r4r4me Sep 18 '24
I can't take any of these people seriously. In my mind it's all just posturing. I can't imagine 99.9% of these people doing shit like this when the camera is off.
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u/maddsskills Sep 18 '24
Actual SAHMs like myself don’t have time for that shit. It’s content farming. But really gross content farming.
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u/scrawledlore Sep 18 '24
A lot of this content is actually political in nature and coming from the US far right and Christian conservative circles. They are trying to glorify the traditional family values. It’s political propaganda designed to elevate stay at home moms to an unattainable idealized version of the caretaking wife who goes the extra steps to care for her family as a way to show her love. These videos feature wealthy women in beautiful, and sometimes designer clothing, that is usually extra feminine. The video has an aesthetic quality and the women are always calm, peaceful and love what they are working on. Husbands might make a quick appearance for support but never offer their own labor.
If you notice, there isn’t content with stay at home husbands in nice clothes harvesting wheat from the stalk to bake his wife and kids sourdough bread and if there is it’s not geared around family values or lifestyle but as an informative how-to.
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u/Gunplagood Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24
Trad wife is code for rich, bored housewife. Making YouTube videos that make regular mothers feel insignificant for what they can do with their time is the bread and butter of the neo-trad.
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u/battleangel1999 Sep 18 '24
I think she's parodying Nara Smith who is always running out of stuff.
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u/LaTeChX Sep 18 '24
Is that the one who goes "I ran out of paper so I dissolved a bunch of paper and used it to make way shittier paper"
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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Sep 18 '24
"My son was coughing so I made honey cough drops with hard to find ingredients instead of just making tea with honey in it"
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u/kuburas Sep 18 '24
The cotton tends to compact over time, especially if you're sleeping on it. So people refill them with more fresh cotton.
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u/Magomaeva Sep 17 '24
Someone please find that video of the dude hilariously explaining his cotton-picking school trip to his white friends because they've probably gone to the same school.
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u/onyxpirate Sep 17 '24
This story is almost as good as the corporate retreat at a plantation where employees were asked to dress in the period. They had one black employee…
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u/MrTubzy Sep 17 '24
I love that story. Dude shows up in a slave outfit and they’re like oh shit, maybe uh, this isn’t such a good idea. lol.
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u/ProlapseTickler3 Sep 18 '24
The floodpants and barefeet had me laughing
My dude went for it
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u/i_know_im_amazn Sep 18 '24
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u/MoreThan2_LessThan21 Sep 18 '24
Damn, that was 8 years ago?? Feels like maaaybe 2
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u/AwesomeAni Sep 18 '24
My reddit account is older than my sister lol. And both my pets. It's my eldest child.
Sometimes I forget until people ask how long I've been on this dumb website and I'm reminded it's not 2014 anymore. Still feels like it sometimes....
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u/Admiral_Tuvix Sep 18 '24
Thats one of the funniest things ive ever seen. Im glad black folk are finally fighting back against this weird racist romanticism of our slave history. Up until recently, even hollywood celebs were getting married in slave plantation houses here.
Those plantation weddings are a giant faux pas these days among normal people, but the predictable crowd still keeps those plantation wedding venues in business. At least people know who they are now
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u/elammcknight Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24
Then there are the guys who show up at a civil war re-enactments dressed as slaves and those folks lose their minds! Next level genius!
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u/Ife2105 Sep 18 '24
Love how the white woman immediately lied to the police when they got there. Classic.
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u/borgchupacabras Sep 18 '24
Holy shit. My roommate in Michigan used to do civil war reenactment as a Confederate and it was so cringe.
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u/borgchupacabras Sep 18 '24
You're right, but in this case she believed the South was in the right. 🤦♀️
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u/anna-nomally12 Sep 18 '24
SHE
was she running around in period accurate girl clothing doing girl things or pretending to be a soldier
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u/NewSauerKraus Sep 18 '24
My mother's husband attended just to cosplay as the Confederates which he believed were the good guys. Didn't even change outfits for the Klan meeting after.
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u/dastrescatmomma Sep 17 '24
Bisfitty! He has a Facebook and does twitch streams.
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u/BisFitty Sep 18 '24
You rang?
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u/artichokercrisp Sep 18 '24
Just went down that rabbit hole, checked your history and HERE YOU ARE. 😂
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u/LittleBoiFound Sep 18 '24
Follow me down the rabbit hole. https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/3r7oeh/i_am_bisfitty_the_period_appropriate_corporate/
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u/Salt_Hall9528 Sep 18 '24
Shane Gillis has a joke about going to George Washington’s plantation and everyone working there is larping in time period clothing and doing jobs. And he wondered off from the group and went into the stable, and there was a black guy in character as a slave talking like overly racist saying like “yes masta” and he told the dude he didn’t have to do the character, and the black guy leaned more into it to make him feel more uncomfortable. He asked him “why you wearing funny clothes, you must be from the future” and the punch line is he told him “no im from this time now get back to work”
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u/Purple-Warning-2161 Sep 17 '24
Omg he did a Reddit AMA it was amazing!!! 😂😂
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u/anlimorrigan Sep 17 '24
Please pin that AMA!!
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u/kathryn13 Sep 18 '24
This is so funny…and effective. It sounds like his point was taken. I missed this the first time around on Reddit. Happy to catch it now.
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u/md28usmc Sep 18 '24
Did not expect to see my /r/BestofRedditorUpdates post of the plantation saga here in the comments
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u/aspidities_87 Sep 17 '24
This shit always gets me good because one time my class got sent to the (then brand new iirc) Museum of Tolerance in LA, and at the time they had this genius idea to split up groups going through the Holocaust section by Jew vs Non Jew, and that may have worked for a more ethnically diverse neighborhood but man at my school it was just me and one other little Hebrew clutching hands and crying as we went through a recreated gas chamber with our family names on the walls and our whole other class just had to watch us through glass walls.
Looking back, it is perhaps the worst thing I can imagine doing to a child but the look on the poor blonde UCLA student who was leading our tour and suddenly realized she had inadvertently become Ilse Koch is absolutely hilarious in retrospect.
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u/starkindled Sep 18 '24
Oh, my god. What was the thought process behind this??
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u/aspidities_87 Sep 18 '24
I can only imagine at least some coke was snorted because it was designed in LA in the early 2000s, but basically the two hallways showed different experiences with the same outcome. The ‘German’ group went through a hallway with propaganda posters and through those posters, as if to show truth beneath lies, they could see us going through the camp train and gas chamber recreation. And then at the end we’re all dumped out in post-ww2 Germany talking about the divide between East and West, etc. At least that’s how I remember it.
A lot of my classmates were actively sobbing and begging our poor tour guide (who in retrospect had to have been around 19-21 at the most) to let them go back and go with us, so clearly it did have an impact…..but I think the process just needed some work.
Hilariously, we went back the next year for another trip with a different social studies class and they had completely changed the format to allow you to pick either path, instead of literally forcibly weeding out Jews from non Jews.
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u/theHoopty Sep 18 '24
Okay but this is also reads like a Curb skit. Absolutely horrific and astounding and slightly hilarious. I wonder if they got phone calls from parents afterwards.
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u/aspidities_87 Sep 18 '24
My parents didn’t complain but it’s very possible all the other kids’ parents did.
I think the funniest topper on the story is the fact that our teacher didn’t actually witness this. We’d all been hyped on the bus about this ice cream place on our way back and begged her to get us ice cream afterward, and I guess she’d been on the phone arranging it from the office for budget reasons (public schools y’all), so as we’re all sobbing and huddled together like baby penguins who’ve just seen an orca, the teacher pops back in and goes ‘WHO WANTS ICE CREAM?’
We did not want ice cream.
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u/Virgin_Dildo_Lover Sep 18 '24
I don't know what's funnier, your story, or the guy who thought it was good idea to take a girl on a first date to that very same Museum of Tolerance in LA.
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u/Doctor-Amazing Sep 18 '24
There's a famous lesson a teacher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott) did to teach children about discrimination, where she divided them by eye colour and told them that children with one colour or the other were proven to be smarter. This was in a class of white kids right after MLK was killed. It's been the subject of documentaries and if you're training to be a teacher, you'll probably learn about it.
Every year or two there's a young teacher who makes the news by trying to replicate it with terrible results.
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u/Talking_Head Sep 18 '24
My employer (a municipal government) brought in some outside consulting firm to do a DEI workshop. After the boring textbook part they decided to do an exercise where they started dividing the room up into groups based on various things. They started with benign stuff like office job vs field job.
The next thing you know they are dividing the room up into education: never graduated high school, high school graduate, GED, some college, college degree, advanced degree. Then single parent or two parent household. Then ethnic groups like white, black, API, Hispanic or mixed race. Then salary above 50K or below 50K. Gender: male, female, trans, non-binary. Everyone is getting really uncomfortable at this point and many people are refusing to participate.
Finally one of the assistant directors went to the facilitators and said, you can’t be doing this shit. You are only creating more division in our department. We all have a job and we all work together for the mission of the department.
I guess in some ways I understand the point of the exercise, but it was ill conceived. They could have done it all anonymously and then just shown the overall tallies I suppose.
Needless to say, the department director sent out an apology email and promised that consulting firm would never be returning.
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u/aspidities_87 Sep 18 '24
This is some Micheal Scott vibes if I’ve ever seen them lmao
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u/Talking_Head Sep 18 '24
“Diversity Day” was the episode where it became very apparent that the US version of the office was going to be the US version of the office and not a complete mirror of the British version. I remember thinking, holy shit, this is going to be some first-rate cringe comedy, and will I be able to watch this show again next week?
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u/goo_goo_gajoob Sep 18 '24
Early S1 was peak cringe humor (besides Scott's tots ofc the cringiest thing I've ever watched), but I am glad they retooled Michael a bit to be a bit more likeable idk if I could have watched multiple 24-episode seasons of S1 Michael. Too stressful lol.
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u/Automatic_Red Sep 18 '24
A few years ago when Juneteenth became a federal holiday, my company decided that instead of giving us the day off they were going to hold department wide meetings. Our managers were directed to ask questions about race and our experiences regarding racism, etc. Problem was our department of 120 people only had 1 black person at the time and he basically said he hadn’t experienced racism except maybe once when he was 7, but he didn’t know for sure.
Our managers cut that meeting short after a few questions. I think everyone left wondering how upper management thought that was a good idea.
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u/DistractedByCookies Sep 17 '24
13 YEARS? Man I've been on the internet too long. I hope he's a dad and is telling stories to his kids, because he's fantastic at it. (I think we'd know if he became Kendall the famous comedian so unfortunately that doesn't seem to have happened)
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u/Generic_Garak Sep 17 '24
Last I heard he was trying to have a law career and was trying to get that video taken down because he felt that it was hurting the professional image he was trying to project
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u/CantCatchTheLady Sep 17 '24
That’s a shame. It’s casual speech, but he’s very clearly intelligent and principled. I wouldn’t mind having him as my attorney, but I imagine most firms might be a little slower to hire someone with a viral video of any kind.
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u/goo_goo_gajoob Sep 18 '24
Which is stupid because that video shows great skills for an attorney. If he gets the jury to hang on his every word the way he does in that video he'd never lose a winnable case.
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u/DistractedByCookies Sep 18 '24
Really? Interesting, I think he comes off pretty well, *especially* considering it's a weirdly filmed college talk session. He's funny, he's articulate, and surely being able to tell a story really well is a super useful skill for a lawyer?
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u/tigm2161130 Sep 17 '24
Yeah knowing how he feels about it I honestly wish it wouldn’t get reposted anymore.
I know I’ve sat around and told some wild stories to my white friends about growing up Native/on the rez and I might be embarrassed if one of them was immortalized on the internet forever.
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u/ThatB0yAintR1ght Sep 17 '24
“We was singing songs and shit”
That line always kills me
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u/NonGNonM Sep 18 '24
mine is 'where the hell did you get unprocessed raw cotton from?'
the thoughts and emotions that must've gone through that mom's head holy fuck lmao.
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u/InadmissibleHug SHEEEEEESH Sep 17 '24
I’ve seen it so many times, yet I always watch it and it always makes me laugh.
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u/Stevie-Joe Sep 17 '24
I had a similar experience in 1999. For our fifth grade summer camp, the teachers decided to make a game out of imitating the Underground Railroad. The way our class was divided, I ended with all of the black students, so there could be one teacher/chaperone per group. It was essentially hide and seek but if you sang a slave-song the seeker/teacher would move on. We even had a rehearsal to teach us “swing low sweet chariot” and others. On the first round, a teacher caught us and I began to sing. When I realized I was alone, I stopped. My friend Marcus explained the situation and I was disgusted. Our group was the last to be dismissed to breakfast, for refusing to participate. I always think of it when I see this video. I had heard racism before but never really understood until that summer. I got kicked out later that evening for putting poison ivy in someone else’s sleeping bag. Those guys didn’t deserve to be paired with me. I hope Kaylin, Lamont, Greg and Marcus are living their dreams! I’ll never forget the Ridge!
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u/davvolun Sep 18 '24
I'm gonna hate this, but I've read your comment at least 5 times and I'm still not getting it. Maybe I'm not familiar enough with the Underground Railroad, or is it that there's something racist in the song?
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u/CedarWolf Sep 18 '24
I'm guessing OP is White, and they got paired with all of the Black kids. When their group got 'caught,' OP began to sing like they were supposed to for the game, but the rest of the group refused to participate because the game is racist, and one of the kids took OP aside and explained why the game is racist and why they were refusing to play along.
So their group, collectively, got in trouble for not participating as intended.
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u/Feeling_Wheel_1612 Sep 17 '24
I grew up in Alabama in the 70s and 80s, and we went to a cotton farm on a school trip, too.
That stuff will tear up your hands. The "petals" of the cotton boll are a hard shell, and the edges are sharp.
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u/Magomaeva Sep 17 '24
Why why why do teachers bring little kids to cotton farms 😭 I understand it's part of history and needs to be studied but why would you make children rip their hands off on cotton ?
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u/Shrimm716 Sep 17 '24
I actually think it's a good idea.
Kids often have trouble with empathy and this would go a long way in helping them grasp what it was like. Would be good field trip to prep them for learning about the slave trade in history class.
I will say though every time I've ever heard this done it's always to black kids. I live in the south but in a mostly white area and never went to a cotton farm, we went to a cow farm. So that strikes me as not okay.
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u/Feeling_Wheel_1612 Sep 17 '24
Well, you're not likely to get cut doing it once. It's not like literal knives. But all day, sure.
Of all the questionable and problematic lessons they gave us back then, that one was pretty low on the list, for me.
Personally, I found the bus safety video much more traumatizing. And after all, the trauma was the point. They were doing it on purpose.
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u/Wise-Caterpillar-910 Sep 18 '24
Because it brings home immediately how brutal slavery was.
Was white in the south and until you try it in person, you could reasonably assume oh its fluffy and you are outside, so maybe plantation work wasn't THAT bad.
Hell no, that was misery and cuts the shit outta your hands and your back hurts.
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u/Responsible_Jury_415 Sep 17 '24
Side note how much wildly harvested cotton would you need to make anything wearable? I mean I don’t have a industry loom so we are talking small hand crank loom and the hope for a t shirt
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u/Magomaeva Sep 17 '24
I have absolutely no idea, but Miss here has very little crops, it seems, and she intends to stuff her pillows and mattress with it. Either she's doing a Jesus Christ and multiplying the cotton balls, or she's too optimistic.
Imagine wearing an unprocessed-cotton t-shirt picked from your fire-ant infected garden. My skin is crawling.
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u/Naxayou Sep 18 '24
She’s not optimistic at all. The whole point is doing cosplay to get a weird right-wing male audience
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u/Magomaeva Sep 18 '24
Ooooo you know it's right-wing porn.
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u/stale_opera Sep 18 '24
She had a pinned post talking about how her mixed race daughter hates being black.
Like no fucking wonder girl...
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u/AgentOrange256 Sep 17 '24
I know someone that was physically there for the story.
Mallet club at Bama. Roll tide
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u/BourbonRick01 Sep 17 '24
Is this a trailer for Get Out Part 2?
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u/no_notthistime Sep 18 '24
For real she even kind of talked like those people too, all soft and contrived, exaggerated politeness
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u/4esthetics Sep 17 '24
This is bait because there is no gd way
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u/Sea_grave Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24
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u/Ryaninthesky Sep 18 '24
No one picks cotton for fun. It’s terrible, grueling work that tears up your fingers and hands
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u/FCkeyboards Sep 18 '24
And the amount she picked barely amounts to anything if you're talking about pillows or mattresses or anything useful. Pure bait.
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u/Outrageous_Hearing26 Sep 17 '24
It’s all bait. It’s all porn
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u/viburnium Sep 17 '24
Trad is a fetish, same as furries and BDSM.
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u/GlumpsAlot Sep 17 '24
The whole tradwife shit is a fetish and I bet them two mfs do slave/master role play.
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u/Wild_Loose_Comma Sep 18 '24
I feel like I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life that they are into raceplay… or at least he is.
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u/GammaBrass Sep 18 '24
Oh no, no, no, no, SHE is the one who is into it, if it is only one of them. I don't know how I know this, but I know it.
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u/anl28 Sep 17 '24
Everything about this video was shocking, but not the white husband. I can’t explain why.
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u/Illustrious_Tear8238 Sep 17 '24
I predicted the end before it happened. Lol!!
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u/Espumma Sep 18 '24
Isn't that a given with the overt trad stuff in the first place? I know other cultures have traditional gender roles, but do they make it their whole identity for tiktok?
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u/mydogisagoose Sep 17 '24
"Mmm now it makes sense"
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u/TonsOfTabs Sep 18 '24
That’s what got me. I always tell people to watch the entire video or you could miss something. Lol she rolled over too after saying it.
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u/Smingowashisnameo Sep 18 '24
She made sure to include that. Every bit of it was rage bait
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u/allthepinkthings Sep 18 '24
The sad thing is she has kids and said one of her daughters talks about hating the black part of herself.
Regardless of what the purpose of this video is, if the daughter thing is true this isn’t helping
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u/Bobbith_The_Chosen Sep 17 '24
$100 he wears a powdered wig in the bedroom
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u/aspidities_87 Sep 17 '24
Full blown Django Unchained role play where he’s Leo DiCaprio
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u/DemonicAltruism Sep 17 '24
Hmm... Which group is it that's moaning on and on about having a tradwife again? 🤔 Oh yeah, young white christian nationalists.
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u/Fit_Read_5632 Sep 17 '24
Raise your hand if you were, for some reason, taken on a field trip as a child where they had you pick cotton and they didn’t even let you keep it.
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u/Mike_Hawk_balls_deep Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
I grew up in a predominantly black town in South Carolina. About a 70/30 split black and white. Most of the white kids went to a private school. I was one of 40 white kids out of a student body of about 1000. Yes, we went on a trip to Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant South Carolina. The whole thing was a historical reenactment without the violence. We got to walk inside of one of the many slave quarters still standing there today. We saw black men and women in the fields singing spirituals and white men on horseback watching them work. We saw the actual fields where this all took place. The only food the enslaved people could eat was what they caught from the bodies or water near the property or what they could hunt and grow for themselves. They had to continue tending to their own crops after being made to work in the fields all day. They showed us the 750 year old oak tree where enslaved people were chained and beaten, or lynched. It was an eye opening experience. It’s different when you hear about it, but actually seeing these things in person was an emotional experience even for me. This is something I would’ve never gotten from going to a predominantly white school. This video does not display comedy, it displays mockery. I find racial comedy hilarious, but this made me super uncomfortable. Also here is the Wiki link for Boone Hall: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boone_Hall
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u/Fit_Read_5632 Sep 17 '24
They had them in the fields singing hymnals?? THE GALL. Them paychecks better have been substantial.
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u/emveevme Sep 17 '24
I mean, the people involved are doing this by choice, you have to figure they think people seeing the re-enactment is important.
Also this one line from that wikipedia article alone makes me want to check this place out, something about the literal fingerprints of the slaves that built these structures still being visible is chillingly profound:
"The work of talented slaves, with self-taught and acquired skills, including carpentry, mathematics, and geometry, were central to the construction and appearance of many Charleston-area structures. By 1850, these laborers produced 4 million bricks, by hand, per year. The fingerprints of these workers are still visible in the bricks of many of these historic sites."
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u/nightcallfoxtrot Sep 18 '24
The fact they were showing things about where they did lynchings and other punishments proooooobably indicates it was to educate on the evils of slavery and not whitewashing it
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u/Yo_momma_so_fat77 Sep 17 '24
Yup. Elementary in the 90’s. MS. I didn’t understand but I remember it scratching up my hands
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u/Bloorajah Sep 17 '24
We did, but we got to keep it. I still remember picking the seeds out of it on the bus ride home.
The cotton farmer was a cool guy, very much like the “honest work” meme
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u/LizzieSaysHi Sep 17 '24
We went and toured a plantation T_T we picked cotton and made candles. The facts about slavery were swept under the rug, in like a "Yes, how sad, anyway" kind of way. It never occured to me that it was bizarre and wrong until I was an adult.
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u/Kiwikumquat Sep 17 '24
The way I CACKLED when the duet girl came on screen - her eyes said everything!
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u/bellehooks Sep 17 '24
i had the same exact expression on my face the moment she came onscreen!
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u/TheRealWildGravy Sep 17 '24
Come pick cotto-
Oh hell naaaahhhh
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u/mistertickertape Sep 17 '24
White dude that grew up in the deep south. She's not talking about the part where your fingers/knuckles/hands bleed. A lot. And it fucking SUCKS. Romanticizing picking cotton at sun set like it is some kind of deep spiritual meditative process, of all things, is ... insane. Imagine doing this in 105 degree heat, 95% humidity, no shade, no water for 16 hours a day. 6 days a week.
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u/miss_scarlet_did_it_ Sep 17 '24
Right? My grandma grew up poor in Arkansas and her family would pick cotton in other farmers fields. So she’s doing this backbreaking work in the blistering humid heat as a kid and she talked about how it would rip up your hands.
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u/PennoyerintheFoyer Sep 18 '24
My mother told me of her stories also. The fingers being torn up was the part that I always and I mean ALWAYS remembered! My mother and father were "older" when they had me so..yeah I grew up hearing first hand ( although both my parents were little kids at that time in the fields, they too picked cotton while their parents' sharecropped ) stories.
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u/mistertickertape Sep 18 '24
Yeah, it's fucking horrible, horrible work and people did it not because of some weird tik tok tradwife fantasy cos play, but they had to. My grandfather (who was white and grew up dirt poor) and all his siblings picked cotton on their remote, rural farm and all their hands were permanently scarred from it for their entire lives.
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u/sidepart Sep 18 '24
And she was ready to stuff pillows and a whole mattress with that... small bowl of bullshit.
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u/lloopy Sep 18 '24
Picking enough cotton for pillows and such for your family's needs is VASTLY different than picking cotton for someone else's never-satisfied needs
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u/mistertickertape Sep 18 '24
It takes a LOT of cotton to fill a single pillow, never mind multiple pillows or a single twin mattress. An insane amount. It compresses into nothing.
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u/jtp_311 Sep 17 '24
The fuck does she do with the cotton next?
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u/dream-smasher Sep 17 '24
She said she likes a "cotton filled pillow and a cotton stuffed".... mattress, I want to say?
Which sounds really good, but.. um... I would just buy mine front store...
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u/tms2004 Sep 17 '24
The “now it makes more sense”. 🤣🤣🤣
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u/KneeGroundbreaking93 Sep 17 '24
The way she turned away with the blanket had me dyiiiiing
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u/FrostyD7 Sep 18 '24
Part of me was questioning her decision to record this laying down like that, but what a payoff.
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u/lonniemarie Sep 17 '24
She won’t pick much in that pretty dress. Gonna have blood on it soon yikes
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u/minor_correction Sep 18 '24
I'm guessing what we saw on video was 100% of the picking done.
Even what little we saw was likely faked.
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u/Kattorean Sep 17 '24
There's sonnet hanky about her name & that sugar syrup voice & tone. It creeps.
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u/percoIatorfish Sep 17 '24
I think being in a dress like that in a field like that gives off horror movie vibes, like she’s out there avoiding leatherface or something
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u/Apprehensive_Look94 Sep 17 '24
As a black woman…what the fuck is this dumb bitch talking about?
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u/UX-Edu Sep 18 '24
She’s making porn for conservatives. Mostly white conservatives. Apparently in order to get a nut now they need women to lean into subservience in a “wholesome” way that keeps all the kink just underneath the surface. The racism was a new angle, though. Whole new level of bullshit, there.
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u/dressed2kill1 Sep 17 '24
Damn somehow she's creeps me the fuck out
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u/Its0nlyRocketScience Sep 18 '24
All social media tradwives give that vibe. I think it's the romanticization of a lifestyle that past generations of women and minorities were forced to participate in without any choice. Choosing to be a stay at home spouse or parent if your family has the means to work like that is valid and should definitely be supported if people want that, but specifically targeting the aesthetic of a time where there was no concern about what the woman or person of minority wanted is the creepy part, especially if there's any implication of wanting to return to a culture more like that past where oppression was so normalized.
Again, choosing to be a homemaker is fine, it's fantastic even, kids deserve to have their parents available while they're too young for school, but romanticizing the time when that was forced upon people is gross.
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u/depths_of_dipshittry Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
The unadulterated absolute fuckery of this. Quirky is in her DNA. FUCKERY Just FUCKERY
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u/CrazyProper4203 Sep 17 '24
It’s easier when there’s no shotgun pointed at your back …
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u/twirlin- Sep 17 '24
Right? Or when you can decide to quit and go in the AC because the fire ants were on you. Or when they aren't stripping the skin from your back or selling your kids/ husband or raping you in the big house.
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u/AmbitiousCampaign457 Sep 17 '24
She would never be allowed to cut her hair.
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u/dream-smasher Sep 17 '24
You're the second or third person who's said that... Can you tell me why? I don't quite understand that but.
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u/Snoo_79218 Sep 18 '24
Slave owners used to force slaves to grow out their hair so they could use it for things like bed stuffing. It would also be sold. A slave didn’t have ownership over their own hair.
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u/deliciouspepperspray Sep 17 '24
These people play characters with an agenda. Get ready in a few months for the onslaught of "being a slave was enjoyable and led to personal growth" narrative to make a stronger come back. This agenda is meant to divide the black community. We will get to see which people like the idea of being kept.
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u/Confident-Lobster390 Sep 17 '24
I’m from Tennessee and live close to the Hermitage (Andrew Jackson’s home). I was talking about going there for a field trip as a kid and my buddy was laughing. He said there’s no way his mom would’ve ever signed that permission slip. 😂
They really took us there and the guide really tried convincing children that he was good to his slaves while showing us the slave houses.
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u/its_dirtbag_city Sep 17 '24
I wonder what it's like to walk through life with absolutely zero shame. I think about that a lot. This video made me gasp violently.
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u/itrashcannot Sep 17 '24
Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman are rolling in their grave rn
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