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In the unironic way. I expected it to exist in some form, but being this formalized? wow.
Anyway it's apparently still a thing https://inspirationalwomenseries.com/mail-order-bride-sites/ yikes-2

And you used to be able to get them from Ukraine! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3249478/

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[-] videogame@hexbear.net 65 points 1 month ago

It's kinda weird how this was a normalized joke in TV/movies

Because this is just like, slavery right

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I got into a spirited debate with someone who was saying that it's basically a transaction that benefits both parties

Actually, it benefits the women more because they get to move to a nice country, and her kids will be set up for success.

[-] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

I was there at the time (the 90s). It was a very common “joke” and no one ever made the connection that hey, that’s weird how we just destroyed the Soviet economy and now all these women from the former USSR are available to be purchased…

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 54 points 1 month ago

I saw an ad from the like 1930s for buying "healthy" indigenous children from those residential schools to do farm/house work and "raise" until adulthood.

settler colonial states and their affection for slave labor are inseparable.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

not just slavery, not just child labor

[-] TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago

In the unironic way. I expected it to exist in some form, but being this formalized? wow.

The image you posted is fake. It's using a modern typeface. The photo is taken from the internet. Mail order brides are and were definitely a thing but this is a joke.

http://tinyurl.com/28bo9lcr

[-] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was gonna say the text for the "ad" looks way too clean and straight, and doesn't match the artifacting of the rest of the image.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago
[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

I went to college with a russian girl whose mom was a mail order bride.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

What did she tell you about it?

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Not much, other than they both wanted to go back. They were from Novosibirsk.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

Oh man yeah. Did you know literal bride selling (as in selling a wife you didn't want) was a thing in England until the 1800s (admittedly often used as a way of mutual divorce)

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

Actually makes me feel physically ill

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure this still is a thing

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah I write that in the body text

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

Forget everything you think you know about "mail-order" brides and get ready for an outrageously funny, touching and unforgettable look at the extreme lengths people travel for love.

Sex trafficking, how quirky!

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago
[-] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

inspirationalwomenseries.com

ranked list of sex trafficking websites

agony-deep

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

before the invasion ukraine was the sex trafficking capital of europe

uh, unfun fact, i guess

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