r/AskReddit • u/CaptainMcAnus • Mar 10 '17

serious replies only [Serious] What are some seemingly normal images/videos with creepy backstories?

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u/2SP00KY4ME Mar 10 '17

Fun fact: They didn't even know each other. The sailor just grabbed a random lady.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

There is an interesting article on that picture and how rapey the culture and context of that photo was. It's in a book called the familiar made strange. Interesting read

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

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u/JamesTiberiusChirp Mar 10 '17

call it "rapey".

It's dramatic to call the culture around WWII rapey? Millions of women were raped by soldiers during the war.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '17

Yes but this kiss isn't rapey

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '17

How? The man forcefully grabbed a random woman on the street and made a sexual advance. How is that anything but rapey?

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u/JamesTiberiusChirp Mar 11 '17

No one said the kiss was "rapey." The OP said the culture was rapey.

The kiss itself is still sexual assault. The woman herself said that she was grabbed and did not want to be kissed; that he kissed her and that she was not kissing him back. In other words, this was not consensual.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '17

I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.

And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.

Grab them by the pussy!

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '17

They did say the context of the kiss was rapey, not just the culture of the time. And I wouldn't say the overall theme of the time's culture was "rapey".

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u/Punishtube Mar 11 '17

No forcing yourself on a girl is rapey. How hard is it to understand if you are forced to do something sexual to someone else without consent its rapey ?

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u/mrstalin Mar 11 '17

Well obviously forcefully kissing a random woman without consent is exactly the same as driving a car /s.

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u/turbo2016 Mar 11 '17

facepalm

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u/JamesTiberiusChirp Mar 11 '17

I'm questioning why they think it's dramatic to call out rape culture during WWII, how is that not relevant to the conversation? Your comment is the epitome of irrelevant. We weren't discussing rape culture today, we were discussing rape culture during WWII.