Horny History: Carrie Buck
It’s real history, as told by some dude in my inbox and me.
I hate to have to tell you this, but, on the internet when a man asks if you want a tribute, he’s asking if he can masturbate to your picture and send you a picture of his fucking cum on the picture. Usually it’s straight onto a different phone screen. Don’t touch a man’s phone screen ever.
Not me though. When I talk about tributes I’m in a whole different mindset. This is a tribute to Carrie Buck. The woman who didn’t ask to be a part of history, but who was forced to be.
The government deemed her mother, herself and her daughter to be feeble minded and with that her remembrance in history was set. As you read this I want you to keep in mind that Carrie’s mother was deemed feeble minded because of poverty and suspected prostitution. Carrie did well in school and was deemed feeble minded because she was raped and became pregnant. Carrie’s daughter was on the damn honor role at her school.
Carrie Buck (1906-1983)
This young chap never got to hear about the Eugenics Board, but luckily for you all, some other dude did. I’ll link it at the bottom.
If you want to learn more about Carrie and the eugenics ideas of the time. I’ve got some good suggestions for you.
To read the backstory of Dr. Priddy and the Virginia Colony that sterilized Carrie, here’s a Horny History on that:
If you want to read more about Carrie:
Better for All the World by Harry Brunius
If you want to listen:
If you want to watch:
Find this Letś Not Date post on social media here:
Absolutely not. No people are feeble minded. In this case, Carrie was displayed as such without testing as such. That doesn’t mean anyone who tested as such deserved to be treated like this, because again, absolutely no one is feeble minded. All IQ tests are bullshit to begin with, which if you read my entire eugenics series, I’m very clear about.
No one is feeble minded. No one deserves to be imprisoned. Even today we have people being imprisoned for their mental capabilities, which I cover in a recent post on incarceration.
Hello! Love what you do with Let's Not Date. But just wanted to push back a little on the framing of this story. You state a few times how Carrie and her family were not 'feebleminded' or 'mentally deficient' as a way to highlight how they were poorly treated. But if they were those things - as in, people who we would now say have learning disabilities - it would be just as bad for them to be forcibly sterelised! Eugenics is rooted in ableism, and by telling stories about the people who it was 'ridiculous' to be treated so poorly implies that there were people who it was less 'ridiculous' to be treated that way.