[Drew68]

Reading up on Rose Kennedy's lobotomy was horrific. Fearing she would embarrass the family, Joe took his slightly dimwitted and rebellious but otherwise normal 23-year old daughter and quite literally had her brains scrambled while she was conscious and reciting the Lord's Prayer. Only when she could no longer speak was the procedure stopped. By then, it was too late. She had been rendered a vegetable.

Outliving four of her siblings, Rose would be the first of Joe's children to die of natural causes at the age of 86.

[originalbuckeye]

That would be Rosemary.......

[SamAdams76]

Fearing she would embarrass the family, Joe took his slightly dimwitted and rebellious but otherwise normal 23-year old daughter and quite literally had her brains scrambled while she was conscious and reciting the Lord's Prayer.

That is a sickening story (I previously read about it in depth). If I recall correctly, the real reason for the lobotomy was that Rosemary was beginning to have relationships with men and Joe felt that if she got pregnant or caught up in a scandal, that it would damage the political careers of his sons. She might have been a bit of a dullard (like Chelsea Clinton) but there is no reason that Rosemary couldn't have had a normal life, found a man for herself and been a wife and mother. But she just didn't meet the "Kennedy standard" for women.

Even more sickening is the fact that so many women worshipped this family over the decades.

The Kennedy men by and large were very contemptuous of the women in their lives. Not just lobotomizing an adult daughter out of fear she might embarrass the family but using them like sex toys, dumping them into rivers (and leaving them for dead) and treating their wives like doormats. I can go on.

Yet even to this day, the same women who show up to protest President Trump in pink pussy hats because he evidently engaged in some off-color locker room talk, will throw themselves at the feet of these Kennedy men and grovel.