Submitted by TopAbies9056 t3_z1utg9 in todayilearned
Reply to comment by TopAbies9056 in TIL that Evelyn Nesbit, dubbed "the world's first supermodel" became known for her involvement in a feud between her husband Harry Thaw and architect Stanford White who drugged and assaulted her age of 16, this led to Thaw murdering White inside Madison Square Garden in 1906. by TopAbies9056
Up until the end, I was thinking he did it because White took his wife's virginity and he was upset he didn't get to. His lamenting White taking advantage of and then deserting her gives me pause, but it was probably just a way to get positive rather than negative publicity.
Yeah, the guy was obsessed with virgins. He also hated White beforehand.
He even left the following line in the visitor's book of the birthplace of Joan of Arc:
>She would not have been a virgin if Stanford White had been around.
Which is kind of tragically funny.
I'm thinking Jesus made a mistake.
The wrong person got crucified that's for damn sure
They released the wrong Brian.
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You never know with bastards back then. A few of them did have somewhat of a sense of honor.
I generally just assume they'll see women as property until I'm given a good amount of evidence to the contrary.
You hit the nail in the head
"she would still have been a virgin if Stanford White hadn’t been around."
-an actual quote of his according to Wikipedia
Aaaaaand there it is. Batting 1.000 in misogynist identification.
Oh and
“Thaw, whose persona took on a dimension she had never before seen. Manic and violent, locked her up and beat her with a whip and sexually assaulted her over a two-week period.”
Hypocrisy at it’s finest, killing someone who did the same shit you did.
He didn't care about the sexual assault, he was upset he didn't get to take her virginity. Absolute rat fucking bastard.
He was actually way worse, considering the other guy drugged his victim, so she wasn't consciusly aware of what happened and he did it "only" once.
Just chiming in as a reminder that there’s no “better rape” and being “drugged” doesn’t make being raped OK because you “don’t remember it”. Ignorance seems like bliss but no rape is bliss so let’s remember to not minimize victims or lead men to believe they’re “doing us a favor” by drugging us first.
Well, duh! Of course no rape is good.
There is still a huge difference between waking up once from something you can't even remember and being subjected to psychological and physical terror and pain fully conscious for two weeks straight. Which is what her husband did to her.
The guy swho drug women are also not doing it a s favour, they are doing it because they are cowards who don't want a fight.
Virgin brides used to be a big deal.
But some guy raped your wife, you'd be mad about that too.
Opposite for me. Was excited thinking dude wanted justice for his wife. Nope, he thought of her rapist as his competition.
But people are saying they killed the wrong dude. You guys caught that white was a prolific child predator, right? Kind of a shame more people didn’t get a shot at him.
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