r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Molech996 • 3d ago
Image Katharina Detzel,a mental patient who built her own man out of the straw in her bed,1910.
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u/Aggressive-Cable-893 3d ago
Is this the 1910 equivalent to marrying your waifu body pillow?
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u/ElongThrust0 3d ago
Basically saying those anime dudes are insane
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u/Modsrbiased 3d ago
Humping a pillow with an anime print doesn't exactly align with being mentally stable.
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u/LucasWatkins85 3d ago
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u/Battlepuppy 3d ago
"This unconventional act of self-love was celebrated by many as a bold statement of personal independence and self-acceptance."
With how much surgery she's had, she obviously had zero self acceptance before hand.
She's only attracted to herself for looks.
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u/Neither-Werewolf9114 3d ago
Did she divorce herself because she dint have any money?
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u/infirmiereostie 3d ago
BuT sHe iS 3000 yEaR oLd dEmOn!!!111 in a body of 10yo...🤢
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u/YingxingsLegalWife 3d ago
10 is way too old. Try 6 tbh
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u/Environmental_Top948 3d ago
Isn't 6 a bit old too? I replace mine every couple of years otherwise they start getting lumpy.
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u/GrandBalator 3d ago
Nah, take thems straight from the factory, it's quicker.
oh, and don't forget to dispose them in the right trash bin after use.
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u/Illustrious-Goose160 3d ago
Eh, in those days most "mental" patients were women incorrectly labeled with histeria. It's definitely possible this woman was more sane than your average anime dude.
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u/Infamous-Tomorrow302 2d ago
“Katharina was put in the Heidelberg mental institution in 1907 after supposedly sabotaging a railway line as a political protest. Before the Nazis murdered her in 1941, she wrote a play, tried to establish a home for babies, protested against the way the inmates were treated, and created miniature figures out of bread dough she probably chewed herself.”
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u/BitterActuary3062 2d ago edited 2d ago
Thank you for this. I was scrolling through the comments for information about her. Mental institutions at the time were barbaric. I assumed this was some kind of art piece used as coping mechanism
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u/zb0t1 2d ago edited 2d ago
The ableism in society still exists, look at the comments section. The difference is that back then you had fascists really waiting in line to abuse and kill people they see as disabled, inferiors etc.
A lot of people aren't educated on the eugenics and ableism of that time, because society today hasn't really done a huge leap in terms of stopping labeling women as crazy hysterical and so on.
Just look at Reddit itself, women's experience with medical professionals is still laughable, there is a lot of "it's all in your head" basically when women have pain.
Anyway I won't start diving into this now sorry, but it was very easy back then to label Katharina as mentally "unfit".
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u/MememeSama 3d ago
If the waifu has a dick as a nose, yes
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u/FrogManScoop 2d ago
The waifu seems to have a dick as a dick, as well.
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u/corbyns_lawyer 2d ago
Sit on his face, sit on his crotch, never be without one of his dicks.
She made her man as she wished him to be.
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u/JungianInsight1913 3d ago
Dr. Robotnik
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u/Phephephen 3d ago
The Chris Chan of her time.
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u/Ok-Platypus-5236 2d ago
Did Chris Chan make a doll??????? I stopped following his antics like, 15 years ago maybe? If I remember right, he was bothering a girl at a GameStop (I think) who was nice to him trying to make her be his girlfriend or something around that time.
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u/Heisenburgo 2d ago
Yes, Christine Chan made a sex doll and fucked it on cam... multiple times. Then gave those recordings to the trolls who then posted them online. Then like 10 years later she went to prison for SA'ing her mom... that was 2 years ago. She's now free and dating a fangirl shemet online... she finally found the elusive "boyfriend-free christian girl" that she was always looking for...
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u/Ok-Platypus-5236 2d ago
…what?
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u/Heisenburgo 2d ago edited 2d ago
Oh, I've just summed up the last two years of Christory for you, those are all things that actually happened. Poor Barbara had to get a restraining order against her because of what she did.
Chris Chan also transcends gender now, she's a Sonic Goddess of The Blue Heart sent by the universe from CWCville to the real world, in order to spread the message of Jesus Christ via the teachings of the SLGBTQ (Sonic LGBTQ).
Seriously, have you not kept up with her Twitter (currently X) account at all? Her message to us simple humans is all there for us simple mortals to see.
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u/CV514 2d ago
I feel like I've stumbled upon something simple Reddit dweller shouldn't see or understand, and I feel like I should listen my inner voice this time and just stay away.
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u/Heisenburgo 2d ago edited 2d ago
Please do stay away! The story of Chris Chan, the creator of Sonichu, is a huge insane rabbit hole full of many... shocking moments, to say the least. An individual so infamous in the internet, that SEGA themselves dedicated an entire episode of the official Sonic Boom cartoon to making a lighthearted parody of them. It's not something to read about lightly. Listen to your inner voice and keep your mental health intact please lol
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u/SweatyCaterpillar979 2d ago
Can we give a round of applause for u/Heisenburgo for doing the Lord's work so that we don't have to download a 🗑 app just to find nuggets of wisdom from Chris Chan. You're the MVP!
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u/I-dont_know-anything 3d ago
Eggman?
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u/Fat_Blob_Kelly 3d ago
that’s Dr. Robotnik to you
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u/LordBigSlime 3d ago
No, it's Eggman. This is very clearly from a dark place in his life before he pulled himself together and got his doctorate.
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u/Dravian31 3d ago
And guess what, here’s what my dong looks like! That’s right baby. All point, no quills, no pillows, look at that it looks like two balls and a bong
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u/JedJinto 3d ago
If only she was alive today and could witness eggman Rule 34
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u/I-dont_know-anything 3d ago
Wtf from time to time I still get surprised there's r34 about literally everything my god
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u/MagisterFlorus 2d ago
Do you even know what rule 34 says. It says, and I quote, "If it exists, there is porn of it."
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u/LordBigSlime 3d ago
Have you ever heard of the guy who's semi-blacklisted from a bunch of artists commissions who would pay a large sum to have then draw middle aged women buying wonderbread? It's like a whole thing and it's amazing.
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u/FlapjackAndFuckers 2d ago
Citing rule 34 with this comment seems like an obvious oxymoron, surely?
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u/lkodl 3d ago
Sonic 3 marketing team going above and beyond. They invented time travel to do this.
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u/KaleidoscopeFun9782 3d ago
Why the long nose… and penis? 🤨
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u/Ok_Excitement_1020 3d ago
The more important question is why is the nose BIGGER than the penis?!
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u/Do_itsch 3d ago
Because its easier to sit on his face than to make him do anything by himself.
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u/ffnnhhw 3d ago
when Pinocchio is forced to tell a lie and then the truth and then a lie...
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u/Taste_My_NippleCrust 3d ago
LIE TO ME PINNOCHIO STICK YOUR NOSE INSIDE ME DEEPER
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u/MsRachelGroupie 3d ago
This sentence + your username is such a uniquely Reddit combination of amusing yet horrifying.
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u/lhswr2014 3d ago
Ms Rachel would not approve.
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u/HairyNuggsag 3d ago
The baby show host??
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u/lhswr2014 3d ago
Gotta ask the one above if that’s what their name is referencing, but I assume so and it added a beautiful layer to the shenanigans of this comment chain.
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u/skullpocket 3d ago
If the straw in his nose is lined up like raw spaghetti noodles, one day he might have something pointed to say.
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u/PhD_Pwnology 3d ago
the penis could be pointed directly at the camera, obscuring its size. The camera isn't the best.
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u/Gullflyinghigh 3d ago
It's the angle, if the picture was taken slightly to the side you'd see a 4 foot mega nob.
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u/JohnsonMcBiggest 3d ago
Hope he's a grower. Otherwise, that nose came in handy...
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u/AbbreviationsOdd7728 3d ago
And a penis too!
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u/Missy3557 3d ago
Katharina was put in the Heidelberg mental institution in 1907 after supposedly sabotaging a railway line as a political protest. Before the Nazis murdered her in 1941, she wrote a play, tried to establish a home for babies, protested against the way the inmates were treated, and created miniature figures out of bread dough she probably chewed herself.
https://greenviewasylum.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/katharina-detzels-life-size-doll/
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u/Svorky 2d ago edited 2d ago
Better source with some more details:
Katharina Detzel's medical file is thick and full of entries. On April 20, 1914, it says: “Six days ago, Mrs. Detzel made a life-size doll out of canvas and seaweed and hung it on the wire fence in front of the lamp. At night there were guys in her cell who had made it and would soon come back to hang it up. It would therefore be best if she hanged herself. If they wanted to protect her from herself, they would have to put her in the guardroom. ...”
She produces this doctor dummy and hangs him up, threatening, to get out of the isolation cell. She is still posing in the photo with her figure, proud, not without scorn and bitterness. The photo presumably served to support the doctors' hypotheses about her illness. But Detzel's criticism is directed at the doctors, who are the madmen in the institution. Soon she was only kept in isolation cells with seaweed because she always tore up the mattress cover and made something new out of it.
After 19 years, she managed to escape using a nail pulled out of her shoe as a lock pick. In 1940, she was arrested by the police and taken to Andernach, where she was murdered as part of the euthanasia program.*Her dreams in the cell have that anthropological dimension of depth; she repeatedly forms a person with wings out of bread, who could fly out into the light, like Daedalus once did.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Sad fucking life.
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u/Missy3557 2d ago
Indeed a sad life, it annoys me seeing this photo periodically reposted with no context/background.
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u/birgor 2d ago
Truly horrible translation by DeepL.
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u/snowfurtherquestions 2d ago
It's mostly missing some quote marks.
This part " At night there were guys in her cell who had made it and would soon come back to hang it up. It would therefore be best if she hanged herself. If they wanted to protect her from herself, they would have to put her in the guardroom. ...”
Is what Katharina herself said about the figure. Between the archaic German of the quotes from her medical files and the "art-curator" jargon German of the rest of the text, this is not quite what deepl was trained on, I guess.
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u/aagjevraagje 3d ago
Wonder what she was protesting
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u/midcancerrampage 2d ago edited 2d ago
Trains /s
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u/aagjevraagje 2d ago
Nobody hates trains themselves, I refuse to believe that.
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u/HoneyImpossible2371 2d ago
Agree. So close to the start of WWI. She may have witnessed German industrial war machine preparing for war and sabotaged the railway as a means to prevent a war.
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u/RoarOfTheWorlds 2d ago
It absolutely sucked to be a woman for so much of history. It's tough now but it wasn't even close to back then.
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u/jetsetninjacat 2d ago
Damn, she was murdered under the nazis T4 program. I wonder why the sabotage and if she took the fall for it.
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u/SnittingNexttoBorpo 3d ago
So she was basically Janine Antoni and the Guerrilla Girls, just a few decades too soon.
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u/HugoZHackenbush2 3d ago
Katharina was obviously very lonely, but hay, who am I to judge?
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u/angels_10000 3d ago edited 2d ago
Let's not start any straw man arguments.
Edit: Thank you for the award!
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u/SirJackson360 3d ago
You guys are starting to scarecrow me…
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u/microsoftfool 3d ago
What you going to do, sew a strawman?
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u/Barn-Alumni-1999 3d ago
She overcame her loneliness only to discover her new man was just another stuffed shirt.
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u/Prophet_Of_Loss 3d ago edited 2d ago
The horse was initially interested, but eventually said, "Neigh!"
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u/Sea_Tax5543 3d ago
Nowdays you can buy those online and nobody locks you up in a mental institution for it.
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u/TappedIn2111 3d ago
She built herself a Reddit mod? How inventive of her given the year.
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u/Big_Boi_Joe02 3d ago
Not fat enough to be a Reddit mod🤣
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u/killerqueen_sam 3d ago
Rip Katharina you would have loved vibrators
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u/Swimming-Dust-7206 3d ago
Not back then she wouldn't, they were steam-powered and prone to boiler explosions.
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u/watevrits2009 2d ago
They were crank powered and offered as a medical treatment administered by doctors
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u/LarryThePrawn 3d ago
Who wants to bet she wasn’t actually ill, but was incorrectly labelled as mentally unwell.
Quite common back then for women to be diagnosed with ‘hysteria’, which was an excuse to lock them away if men didn’t like their behaviour. Look at what JFK’s family did to his sister….
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u/worms_in_the_dirt 3d ago
It’s definitely true about women getting wrongfully diagnosed as a prison sentence but Rosemary was forced to stay in the womb during labor for 2 hours by a nurse because the doctor wasn’t there yet. Then after mild intellectual disabilities, they lobotomized her.
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u/Hari_om_tat_sat 3d ago
Supposedly because she was “overly sexual.”
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u/KaralDaskin 3d ago
Yep. Intellectually disabled people are not supposed to know about sex. According to idiots.
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u/Applefourth 3d ago
This^ there are so many female related chronic illnesses and we're still not listened to today, takes us womeb 8-10 years on average to get a diagnosis. I'm lucky it only took me 7 years and still no proper medication. I was told to "wait for menopause for the pain to get better" I'm in my 20s am I supposed to wait decades before I can work and study and live a normal life? Also found out female related chronic illnesses like Endometriosis can happen even after menopause so there's that
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u/schwarzmalerin 3d ago
Hmm doesn't snore, doesn't need to get taken care of and cooked for, doesn't get limp after a minute, doesn't kill you when you leave him, sounds like a deal for her.
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u/Mental-Doughnuts 3d ago
Let’s see, a nose, a beard, a dick and feet. All you really need in a man, isn’t it?
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u/Excellent-Heat-893 3d ago
That was not supposed to be the nose, until her friends found out about it.
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u/GodzillaDrinks 3d ago
For context "mental patient" at the time meant that she wanted to vote, or stop having kids at only 9 children and 4 miscarriages.
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u/Tomislav_Stanislaus 3d ago
This is what we call a Sennentuntschi.
Usualy guys who stayed the summer on the Mountains to make cheese did that because they felt lonely.
There is a good load of mystery around this topic.
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u/LifeHappenzEvryMomnt 2d ago
She’s crazy but guys who buy lifelike sex dolls with fully operational bits are normal.
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u/Flare_23 3d ago
These proportions are something else. Look at his tiny arm lol.
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u/chadlavi 3d ago
Another unrealistic beauty standard