[Onto]

(12-28-2015 08:24 PM)WestIndianArchie Wrote:  

(12-28-2015 07:36 PM)Onto Wrote:  

By all means though, give your wife the freedom of western culture. A career, her own friends (guys included), happy hours with her co-workers, girls night out, and all the rest. See how it goes. And what's the harm in a TV show anyway? Or a movie? It's just a story. Doesn't mean anything. It won't raise questions in her or give answers, right?

So the answer is light imprisonment?

You find your Svetlana in Odessa, bring her back her at the ripe age of 20.
Knock her up, and have her live in your house out in the burbs.

Far from friends and family, in a new culture, trapped in some suburb with children, while you're out working (and presumably getting some on the side)

That's game?

Hell no, it isn't.

WIA

If a woman feels that creating a home, caring for her husband, and raising children is imprisonment then I don't see her as marriage material.

I'm really surprised some would view that as trapping her in a jail cell. Poor girl.

You know what, I shouldn't be surprised. It's the cultural viewpoint of modern-day America. A good example of it is this scene from Lord of the Rings which I bet wasn't in the original story.

Let's analyze that scene a bit. You have the young woman with a sword in her hand. The sword is a symbol for power, and that of the lethal kind. Look how she's admiring and smiling at it. How she loves to wield it and when a potential suitor tries to bridle her, how does she react?

The cage is a metaphor for the traditional role of women. She depicts it as horrific and robs her of the valor of being her own, independent woman.

I can't see how a woman watching a scene like that doesn't raise some kind of question within her, and how she wouldn't recognize the answer it's providing. This is just one scene in popular movie, but there are other movies and TV shows where it's the entire theme.