During the lecture Dr. Velasco asked us to try to remember more scene where there is a runaway grooms rather than runaway brides, but I couldn't remember any. So, I went on google and searched "runaway groom scenes" (in different word variations), but instead of finding what I was looking for, I found similar images to the one posted above, and an article named, "Run Away, Groom!". (The article can be found here: shttp://www.slate.com/id/2167299/).
The reason I found these sources interesting was because of the way the bride is depicted. The article attributes/justifies runaway grooms to the phenomenon of the "bridezilla". This makes me feel like, regardless of who is running away, (generally) the bride is is being antagonized.
Does anyone have a different take on this article and image?
From looking at this cartoon, I would agree with what you say about brides always being depicted as "bridezillas" or the crazy ones that could cause an end to a wedding. The first box makes it seem as though the woman is kissing the man, or showing love without the man understanding what is going on as if he is some innocent bystander in the situation. In the next box, as the groom runs away, the bride has a crazed smile on her face as if the man is just trying to escape insanity. The last box tops it off as the crazed, smiling bride drags the groom back to wedding to show the groom as a victim. However, marriages today do not work like they did many hundreds of years ago in faraway lands; both people have a say in getting married. If a woman and man make it to the stage of a wedding, they have both obviously had some say in the matter and feel a certain way towards each other. If the groom backs out, it cannot be put solely on the bride since the guy decided to marry her in the first place.
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