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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Imagine my "shock" when my boyfriend gave me this ring I picked out and the photographer I hired filmed it.  *Make shocked face*[/quote]

Do you know anyone completely caught off guard by an engagement and didn’t have a clue? Input in to the ring? Maybe new to get their nails done and makeup right for the inevitable pics after? Come on.[/quote]

DP but this is precisely why the genre of "surprise" engagement photos/videos is lame to me. It's 2025. Unless you are super young or an idiot, no one is getting engaged without having discussed it with their partner, even worked out some of the logistics. Sure, there may still be a formal proposal, but in this era, it's always people suspending their disbelief a bit so that he can "ask" and she can "say yes."

But when it all gets posted online with photos and shocked faces and him acting relieved... it just all seems extremely fake to me. It also feels really regressive, because I think it plays into this idea that men need to ask women to marry them so that women can be "selected" by a man which is supposed to validate their worth for society. This is a very old idea that is still kind of burned on the back of our brains even though it runs counter to how a lot of us talk about relationships and marriage. When people create elaborate proposals and document the whole thing and post it all online for others to look at, complete with the woman looking shocked by the whole thing ("who? me????? omg!!"), I think it's a way of shouting to the world LOOK AT ME, A MAN DEEMED ME WORTHY. Seeing that from Taylor freaking Swift is honestly depressing.

Sorry if this is offensive to Swift fans. I like her music and respect her career, and that's specifically why I'm rolling my eyes here.[/quote]

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