Curse of the redheads. Anybody ever see Howdy Doody with any girlfriends?
Posted on 03/01/2023 11:29:16 AM PST by DallasBiff
When President James Garfield was gunned down at the Washington, DC, train station in 1881, his assassination came at the hand of a man who was arguably one of history’s first incels: Charles Guiteau.
Guiteau wasn’t unable to find love only in the real world — he also failed to find it at the Oneida Community, an upstate New York colony that practiced “regulated promiscuity.” Traditional marriage was banned there, but the male and female members were all considered man and wife, meaning anyone could sleep with anyone who agreed. The problem for Guiteau is that not one woman at Oneida welcomed the short, excitable, redhead into her bed. Instead, the community’s fairer sex tagged Charles with a nickname: “Git out!”
“Sexual frustration . . . was the main cause of Guiteau’s misery,” writes Susan Wels in “An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a 19th-century Sex Cult and a President’s Murder” (Pegasus Crime)
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I never knew 60's San Francisco, was being practiced in 1870's upstate New York.
Lol. Okay.
Pretty sure that incels have existed as long as there have been people.
Curse of the redheads. Anybody ever see Howdy Doody with any girlfriends?
Imagine showing up to an orgy, and still being unable to get some
That’s a woody Allen movie right there
Isaac Newton predates Guiteau by a few centuries and Newton died a virgin.
Women hate splinters.
I also believe that most marriages in the US were actually common law until the country grew more urbanized toward the end of the 19th century - though others may have more information on that.
Howdy had no luck at the free love commune either. The ladies wanted sex with no strings attached.
LOL. Good one.
I saw what you did there. But I don’t find that crack very funny. I wooden think anybody else wood either. Are you board or something?
I find these stories from distant history quite interesting, they have hushed them up.
Was Elizabeth the First, really the "Virgin Queen"?
Not just utopias, but the burned over districts spawned weird stuff in general. A unique time and area in our history.
“Isaac Newton predates Guiteau by a few centuries and Newton died a virgin.”
Involuntarily celibate? Was he pinning for one who was unattainable? Tell me more.
Sorry, my humor has always gone against the grain.
The transcendental movement and communities that espoused communist ideology have not been hushed up.
Very lousy educations out there.
Or Knucklehead...?
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