JPK Huson 1863
Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2012
- Location
- Central Pennsylvania
While I have massive respect for Keckley, there's evidence her book couldn't have been published without revisions demanded by the publisher. I still do not believe she witnessed such an intimate moment or that Lincoln would say something like that with another person in the room. You didn't.
Mary couldn't win. She was a beautifully educated Southern girl from old Southern ' aristocracy ' BUT also a home-spun social climber? Contradictions like that are terrific indicators something is just, plain wrong. It's not the only contradiction about her, either.
Here's the other thing. Throwing around diagnosis of mental illness is irresponsible. There's a connection being made here between what an awful person Mary was and mental illness. A huge percentage of the population seeks help for some form of mental illness at some point in their lives- creating a correlation based on this silly portrait continually painted of Mary Todd Lincoln implies there's something ' wrong ' with sufferers. Mental illness is not a character flaw nor is it any more shameful than a broken collar bone. Dredging up both real and fictional events ' proving ' someone is or was mentally unstable calls into question a motive. What that would be or why we insist on following anyone beyond the grave to keep getting kicks in isn't mentally unstable it's just mean.
Mary Randolph Custis Lee took blue pills. She had R.A. or something like it. Because I'm not qualified to make a diagnosis for anyone living or dead, for anything, it isn't possible to say. I CAN conjecture based on who she was those blue pills were not for a communicable, sexually transmitted disease.
Mary couldn't win. She was a beautifully educated Southern girl from old Southern ' aristocracy ' BUT also a home-spun social climber? Contradictions like that are terrific indicators something is just, plain wrong. It's not the only contradiction about her, either.
Here's the other thing. Throwing around diagnosis of mental illness is irresponsible. There's a connection being made here between what an awful person Mary was and mental illness. A huge percentage of the population seeks help for some form of mental illness at some point in their lives- creating a correlation based on this silly portrait continually painted of Mary Todd Lincoln implies there's something ' wrong ' with sufferers. Mental illness is not a character flaw nor is it any more shameful than a broken collar bone. Dredging up both real and fictional events ' proving ' someone is or was mentally unstable calls into question a motive. What that would be or why we insist on following anyone beyond the grave to keep getting kicks in isn't mentally unstable it's just mean.
Mary Randolph Custis Lee took blue pills. She had R.A. or something like it. Because I'm not qualified to make a diagnosis for anyone living or dead, for anything, it isn't possible to say. I CAN conjecture based on who she was those blue pills were not for a communicable, sexually transmitted disease.