Katharina Detzel,a mental patient who built her own man out of the straw in her bed,1910.
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Another unrealistic beauty standard
Eggman?
Is this the 1910 equivalent to marrying your waifu body pillow?
Why the long nose… and penis? 🤨
Dr. Robotnik
He even got a little dangly bit
Katharina was put in the Heidelberg mental institution in 1907 after supposedly sabotaging a railway line as a political protest. Before the Nazis murdered her in 1941, she wrote a play, tried to establish a home for babies, protested against the way the inmates were treated, and created miniature figures out of bread dough she probably chewed herself.
https://greenviewasylum.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/katharina-detzels-life-size-doll/
Katharina was obviously very lonely, but hay, who am I to judge?
She built herself a Reddit mod? How inventive of her given the year.
Nowdays you can buy those online and nobody locks you up in a mental institution for it.
Dr Eggman?
Who wants to bet she wasn’t actually ill, but was incorrectly labelled as mentally unwell.
Quite common back then for women to be diagnosed with ‘hysteria’, which was an excuse to lock them away if men didn’t like their behaviour. Look at what JFK’s family did to his sister….
Rip Katharina you would have loved vibrators
That mustache really deserves its own conversation.
dont let batman see this
“I am limited by the technology of my time”
-Katharina Detzel
That’s gonna chafe.
She saw that bed and was like, “Hayyyyyyy”
That was not supposed to be the nose, until her friends found out about it.
OP called her mental patient. Some would call her a visionary
She was a misunderstood artist
This is what we call a Sennentuntschi.
Usualy guys who stayed the summer on the Mountains to make cheese did that because they felt lonely.
There is a good load of mystery around this topic.
Doctor egg man?
Um…
Let’s see, a nose, a beard, a dick and feet. All you really need in a man, isn’t it?
WHO POSTED MY NUDES ON REDDIT??!!
Funny how geniuses were seen as mental patients back in the day.
He’s got the face of dr eggman
Hmm doesn’t snore, doesn’t need to get taken care of and cooked for, doesn’t get limp after a minute, doesn’t kill you when you leave him, sounds like a deal for her.
Eggman is all I can see
Dr Eggman!!!
For context “mental patient” at the time meant that she wanted to vote, or stop having kids at *only* 9 children and 4 miscarriages.
This was my grandfather
shes not mental at all
These proportions are something else. Look at his tiny arm lol.
Good for her
-Lucille Bluth
So what if she has a thing for Dr. Robotnik?
He’s cute.
I see where they got the inspiration for Doctor Eggman
She built her own Dr. Robotnik
Dr Robotnik
Damn that’s creepy as fuck