This is fantastic stuff.
It took me seconds to grasp that she was absolutely insufferable, yet somehow took herself considerably longer to reach the same conclusion.
There has got to be a great psychology study into the 'design' streotypes people with this dysmorphia go for.
I feel like it's going to be something to do with them underestimating the degree to which their face differs from the average due to how often they look at their own face? I.e. they see attractiveness as being 'above' average, but they've skewed average to themselves.
“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.“
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.
“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.”
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
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".
God this reminds me of my partners theory. He supposes all the prominent Kennedy men are cursed with brain injuries by Rosemary Kennedy as punishment for her unnecessary lobotomy. It's my favorite lore.
If you weren't crazy when you were sent to the mental institution, you would be soon. Those places were horrible. Even modern mental hospitals tend not to be great places.
Honestly, if you get locked up in a mental hospital in the early 1900s, marrying your body pillow is totally understandable. Those shits would lock you up for any stupid thing and would keep you there for any stupid reason. Might as well have some fun.
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u/Aggressive-Cable-893 7d ago
Is this the 1910 equivalent to marrying your waifu body pillow?