Jan 15th, 2017: Gravestone

[xoxoxoBruce]

Shelby County, Tennessee...



Can't wait for America to be great again, so those back-alley butchers can kill off those sluts, you betcha.

Link

[sexobon]

I'm not buying it. Other sources say she died February 1, 1876 and was buried February 4, 1876 and some volunteer paid for that marker to be placed at her grave in September 1997.

If the person who wrote the inscription couldn't get the woman's age and year of death right, which are in the historical records, what are the chances of the remainder of it being accurate.

(It's like someone is using a dead slut for attention whoring.)

[limey]

Originally Posted by sexobon

I'm not buying it. Other sources say she died February 1, 1876 and was buried February 4, 1876 and some volunteer paid for that marker to be placed at her grave in September 1997.

If the person who wrote the inscription couldn't get the woman's age and year of death right, which are in the historical records, what are the chances of the remainder of it being accurate.

(It's like someone is using a dead slut for attention whoring.)

I object to this - as recounted here (the only evidence we have), the girl was seduced. That does not make her a slut. It makes the seducer a bastard.
Thank you.

[Griff]

Thank you.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by sexobon

I'm not buying it. Other sources say she died [February 1, 1876 and was buried February 4, 1876 and some volunteer paid for that marker to be placed at her grave in September 1997.

You are correct about the niggling details, Mr Miyagi. Her name even might have been Simpson.

Fortunately, most people got the point that this has not been a rare story throughout history, and when we finally seemed to be a better society it looks like we may backslide terribly.

[Snakeadelic]

Regardless of the detail accuracy, this reminds us that criminalizing abortions does not remove their availability, only all the medical safeguards and the participation of qualified medical personnel. Criminalize them again and the death rates will go up again. The math on this one is that brutally simple.

[sexobon]

I had carried over the term xoB used; but, if it makes people feel better:

Friend of the father of the late Kate McCormack
whom he seduced and got pregnant
Not having wed her, she died from abortion,
the only choice he left her
He abandoned her in life and death
with a rose coming only from her mother
Leaving her to be buried through the kindness
of unknown benefactors
Died a bastard; but, not soon enough

Victimizer in an enabling society
God forgive them 'cause we won't

[limey]

Originally Posted by sexobon

I had carried over the term xoB used; but, if it makes people feel better:

I think you'll find xoB was using a figure of speech called "irony".

But I do like your epitaph on the bastard.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by limey

I think you'll find xoB was using a figure of speech called "irony".

You are entirely correct, we sluts don't disparage our own.

[sexobon]

I knew you would.

[BigV]

Besides, what's wrong with sluts? If you don't like them, don't fuck them.

[Gravdigr]

I have enjoyed the occasional slut.

As well as the occasionally slutty.

[sexobon]

Yeah, I figured it belonged in the Politics thread where it's not rare that unvetted sources are spun for impact.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Despite the niggling details, it was not unvetted. I posted the link to the original photo, but had also looked at...

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...r&GRid=9540313

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/commen...ate_mccormick/

https://playingintheworldgame.wordpr...ack-and-white/

I felt it was close enough for a non-political thread. My post, my call.

You are welcome to post your IOtD in your manner.

[sexobon]

I'm not buying it.

Did your vetting process also show that Norma McCorvey, known in court documents as Jane ROE (against Henry WADE, the district attorney of Dallas County from 1951 to 1987 who enforced a Texas law that prohibited abortion except to save a woman's life) was the Texas resident who sought to obtain an abortion when she became the lead plaintiff in the case. She gave up the baby for adoption. Norma McCorvey had since come forward and changed sides on the abortion debate. In 1997, the same year the IOTD gravestone with that epitaph was placed on Kate Simpsom McCormick's grave, McCorvey started Roe No More, a pro-life outreach organization (that was dissolved in 2008). Mere coincidence I suppose.

Whoever placed that gravestone probably vetted the deceased's story well enough for their purposes too.