[ SECRET POST #2632 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2632 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Game of Thrones]


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03.
[Patrick Stump / Fall Out Boy]


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04.
[Men in Black, Agent Coulson]


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05.
[Twin Peaks]


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06.
[Defenders of Berk/How To Train Your Dragon 2]


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07.
[Lily Allen]


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08.
[Attack on Titan]


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09.
[The Brittas Empire]


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10.
[Panic! at the Disco]


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11.
[Frozen]













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Comments

Re: Skeevy Rom-com Movies

[(Anonymous)]

Well to be fair, Overboard DOES make the point that what he did at first was enormously dickish and he deservingly got stuck with the consequences of his dickishness -- it was only a wild accident that it turned out to be a positive thing for her. It's a farce -- a story where a giant whopping mistake has a good outcome that came about by sheer luck, not the kind of logic that could serve as a lesson or a model. A big case of "don't try this at home." The lesson in that movie isn't "tell an amnesia patient she's your wife," it's "don't be prejudiced about other people. These two learned it when he told her she was his wife when she had amnesia, but you can probably figure out a better way to understand it."

And she does get furious when she gets her memory back. She later decides on her own that "what the fuck, I love him anyway and I've never been happier and I would have been a miserable little snob all my life if that didn't happen, even if he shouldn't have done it."

Still veeeeerrrry damn skeevy from a RL perspective, but I don't think that the writers didn't realize what they were writing.

Re: Skeevy Rom-com Movies

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Well, I was more thinking about the rape by deception (because that was supposed to be romantic), the way they treated her at first (because that was intended to be funny), and the sort-of Stockholm Syndrome thing that happens (because that was supposed to be heartwarming).

Re: Skeevy Rom-com Movies

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

Do you...actually understand what Stockholm Syndrome is?

Re: Skeevy Rom-com Movies

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness.

Stockholm syndrome can be seen as a form of traumatic bonding, which does not necessarily require a hostage scenario, but which describes "strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other."

I wrote "sort-of" because it isn't exactly a hostage situation although she isn't really there of her own free will. But he absolutely does try to control her behavior. And there is harassment and mistreatment. And then she grows to care about him (and, yes, the harassment and mistreatment do taper off, but only after her behavior begins to change).