Originally posted by: la_Reine
There have been many Pakistani shows in which the FL ends up with her rapist usually they show marital rape as a characteristic of alpha males😳 In Bashar Momin, he raped his wife after forcefully marrying her, at the end he reformed himself into a better man and they had a happy ending.
Yarriyan was even worse, he raped her while drunk and then forgot about the night, and when she got pregnant he refused to accept the child as his and doubted her character. At the end he learnt the truth and she forgave him
There have been many other shows like Ba Khudi and Sangat where the rapist has been romanticized.
Even in the Indian show Jeet Gayi Toh Piya Morre, I never watched it because the promos were toxic enough, but it did seem like she was trying to win the love of her evil husband who was a beast.
A side storyline in the Indian show Balika Vadhu showed this form of storyline, Gehna's husband Basant raped her on their wedding night. And of course, as usual it's considered normal, so the next morning the mother-in-law (the vamp of the show at that point) sees Gehna's injuries and turns a blind eye. However Gehna takes a stand for herset and refuses to sleep with her so called husband the next night. The mother-in-law makes a fuss about it, asks her son to get a grip on his wife, but he doesn't do anything such thing if I remember correctly, despite being under the thumb of his mother (that's how his charecter is shown). Then something happens, the wife gets pregnant, many more drama occurs, but finally the wife forgives the husband. It was showing in both empowering (Gehna standing up for herself) and regressive (not only forgiving her husband but falling in love with him later on). I agree that they did show some major charecter developments of the husband but watching them together given their past was so uncomfortable. I watched this storyline because like the show for many reasons but I am always uncomfortable watching this couple in the show.
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