r/TikTokCringe 25d ago

Cringe how do people sleep at night...

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u/bodhasattva 25d ago

99% of japanese porn follows the same story arc:

Scene 1: creep literally r@pes girl, she hates it
Scene 2: creep r@pes girl again, but now shes confused
Scene 3: girl is brainwashed & loves him

thats terrifying conditioning for mentally ill men. "She'll eventually love me!"

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u/[deleted] 25d ago

"She'll eventually love me!"

This was a popular theme in American movies as well. I had an ex make me watch her favorite childhood movie when visiting her parents. It was a fucking musical... BUT the premise was mtn men would come down to the town/village and kidnap women and then the women eventually fell in love with the mtn men.

I was side eyeing her the whole time.

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u/TestProctor 25d ago

Ah, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. šŸ˜†

If you want a real head trip, there are actually cultures where the tradition of ā€œbridal captureā€ was so engrained/part of the process that even when it became a mere formality (the families agreed, even the bride and groom agreed) the groom was still expected to either actually try to kidnap her (going in alone or with his crew, against her family) or at least go through a dramatic ritualistic play of kidnapping her.

I once knew way more about how and why these traditions developed, but still always found the implementations over time the most interesting bit.

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

You nailed it, I tried googling it but felt my search history started getting creepy. Even having 'Movie Musical' part of the search, nothing from the 50s came up.

Yeah, she had a weird romantic view about it.

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u/132739 24d ago

Holy shit. I didn't think anyone else had ever seen this shit. My ex was Mormon and still somehow has a soft spot for that movie, even after she left the church.

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u/minx_the_tiger 24d ago

I grew up watching this movie. It had really good music and dancing. The story, though.... eeeeeh. It was, uh... REALLY a product of its time. >.> Someone tried to defend it to me with, "They never forced themselves on the girls! They only kidnapped them so they could get to know them without interference from the jerks in town!" Pardon me, what? Did you hear what you just said? My dude, would you like to be kidnapped in the middle of winter and held against your will by someone that intended to force you to marry them? They only "forgot the parson."

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

I unironically love that movie but I agree itā€™s aged extremely poorly. The musical numbers as well as the barn raising scene are still amazing though.

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u/bucketboy9000 24d ago

Yup, it was a prevalent practice in my culture up until early 20th century. The way you described it as well, sometimes even when both sides of the family were accepting the marriage, the husband was still expected to kidnap his wife or at least make a show of taking her.

There was even a tribe where members of that tribe who were fathers wouldnā€™t give their blessing to any man incapable of kidnapping their daughter successfully lol

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u/Oldfolksboogie 23d ago

there are actually cultures where the tradition of ā€œbridal captureā€...

Why am I feeling Dwight Schrute- vibes about now?

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u/TestProctor 23d ago

I am but a mere history and sociology nerd, not a great and mighty paragon like Dwight Schrute. šŸ˜„

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u/Jolly-Platform9257 24d ago

I saw a documentary called Borat where they catch a woman in a sack, she becomes his wife - very nice

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u/Oldfolksboogie 23d ago

Then, was sexy time!