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[–] ShustOne@lemmy.one 201 points 10 months ago (4 children)

She was involved in a major historical event where the person she thought she'd be with forever died right in front of her.

Also she's telling the story of the Titanic to people who asked her to tell the story about her time on the Titanic. Why would her kids or family be relevant? This is just rage bait.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 97 points 10 months ago (1 children)

She also wasn't on her deathbed lol she was just old

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

She died in bed at the end of the movie, so technically she was on her death bed every night that she slept on that ship.

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 53 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Even besides all that, why does any of this reflect on other women? incel ass shit

Edit: judging by the voting, a bunch of incels found this thread

[–] Bayz0r@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think the post is dumb but the logic is that it reflects on other women because millions of them think it's a good love story (as per the post).

[–] eskimofry@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Except, this logic falls apart immediately when you start understanding that she was in love with the dude and he died trying to save her. That's something you remember your whole life. This is just a bad unhealthy take from OP and the downvoters here.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Sure, but millions of women are able to separate fiction from reality, and thus are able to appreciate a story which didn't really happen, unlike this anon

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[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Rose had adopted a new life under an assumed name after the sinking. Her family wasn't even aware that she had been on the Titanic, much less met what she considered her soulmate.

Rose allowed herself to tell the story that had weighed on her for 70 years, nearly her entire life, because she knew she was nearing the end of her life.

That's why her scenes are so powerful.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 153 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ain't that some incel shieet

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago (7 children)

What do you expect? 4chan is infested with incels

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[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not even true. She was literally on a ship that was examining the wreckage, so talking about it was relevant.

You can see the wreckage on the screen in the screenshot.

[–] ShustOne@lemmy.one 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

But bro how am I supposed to virtue signal to my fellow misogynists if I have to take things like context into consideration?

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[–] Sekrayray@lemmy.world 121 points 10 months ago (4 children)

This is a really good example of me feeling really one-sided about something and then having my mind changed by the comment section. Somehow I didn’t think about the fact that being on the Titanic sinking would be a pretty pivotal memory in someone’s life lol.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 52 points 10 months ago

Also, she was on a ship that was examining the wreckage, and iirc she was basically being interviewed.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 22 points 10 months ago

She's also a fictional character wrote by a man.

[–] UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What 4chan does to the chronically online lmfao

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 104 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was also the time when she watched a man die to save her life.

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago (3 children)

He didn't even have to, mythbusters did a show on it lol

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Idk why you’re being downvoted. They did, and you’re right. A door of that size made with accurate wood could hold two adult men out of the water when they removed their life vests and put them under the door.

If Jack and Rose had done the same, they would have increased the chance of survival for both of them by both being out of the water and having double the body heat to warm each other.

[–] ShustOne@lemmy.one 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They try in the movie and it causes them both to be in the freezing water. It wasn't about him being able to float, it was about them both not freezing to death.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

They don’t put the life vests under the door in the movie, which is the key detail tested by the Mythbusters.

[–] Grellan@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

Because you missed in the same episode during that part where David Cameron said that Leo's character dying was what had to happen. That was the story. It is a pointless gotcha, based on the movie not spending the time to determine the exact amount of buoyancy of a ship wreck.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Did they come up with that idea while floating in sub-freezing water, after having just experienced multiple near-death scenarios, while afraid for their lives? The reality is that it's easy to solve a problem in a lab, not so much under duress.

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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 74 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 67 points 10 months ago (1 children)

More like... Why do men write female characters like this?

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[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Of course, because a forced arranged marriage to a narcissistic fuckwit would have made her life so much better... /s

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So we're just ignoring the children then?

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 32 points 10 months ago
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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And she chucked a big part of her kids’ inheritance off the boat!

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Considering how wealthy Rose's family is portrayed in the movie, I'm going to assume that her children did just fine without it.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Rose left that family after the sinking of the Titanic. She gave it all up and started a new life for herself, under a new name. But she did find a measure of success as an actress, so she was probably doing alright. No where near her previous wealth, but comfortable.

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago (3 children)

As if a man wouldn't be having the exact same fantasies

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, the whole movie centered around her memories while people explored the wreck site (if my memory is correct, I haven’t seen it since around 2000). It would be like if you were walking around your old high school at the end of your life and someone gets pissed because you remembered that day the new girl banged you under the bleachers and then died in a gymnasium fire.

What else was she supposed to think about?

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[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] calypsopub@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Speaking as a wife and mother, it's likely the only time in her adult life that somebody focused on her wants and needs instead of expecting her to cater to theirs.

[–] spaphy@lemmy.ml 51 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Following that thought through fully: and her wants for those two days happened to be dick from a homeless man.

Lol. I get what you're saying though.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 10 months ago

also to be a naked model for a painting

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 38 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Maybe you should get a better husband

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[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 10 months ago

4chan media literacy challenge (100% impossible)

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

She wasn't on her death bed. She was a mobile old lady who was flown out to a marine vessel to talk to scientists. She dies in her sleep at the end of "old age" and isn't suffering from any ailment. Also, the story is about how a poor boy showed a rich girl a different life and rescued her from her abusive fiance. What woman wouldn't want to be rescued from an abusive relationship by 20 year old Leo on the world's most extravagant cruise ship? Then at the end after she dies, she sees her long lost love in the context she remembers him: dapper, well dressed, and surrounded by gilded beautiful fixtures and things at the stairwell.

[–] spaphy@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Lots of sensitive susans in the comments. If you don't like it block it and move on. There's too many people on lemmy that want to dictate what everyone can and can't see rather than moderating what they themselves see.

[–] Chriszz@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Lemmy is a pretty bad echo chamber at the moment. Here it seems like there’s only ever one right opinion.

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[–] z00s@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you don't want to see the "sensitive susans", block them and move on.

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[–] ShustOne@lemmy.one 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

How is recommending someone to not interact with a post they don't like because you don't like a different opinion anything but being a sensitive Susan yourself?

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