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/ 
And you used to be able to get them from Ukraine! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3249478/
It's kinda weird how this was a normalized joke in TV/movies
Because this is just like, slavery right
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.
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…
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.
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
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.
I went to college with a russian girl whose mom was a mail order bride.
Not much, other than they both wanted to go back. They were from Novosibirsk.
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)
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!
inspirationalwomenseries.com
ranked list of sex trafficking websites
before the invasion ukraine was the sex trafficking capital of europe
uh, unfun fact, i guess
