Thursday, February 11, 2010
"Abe was a Babe" - mystery solved
Abraham Lincoln was a Woman? - here is the story in full:
"While many of you were off pursuing Lincolns sexuality, the Weekly World News broke the American history story of the 21st century: Abraham Lincoln Was a Woman! Thanks to "maverick historian Jessica Durbeen," we now know that Honest Abe was born Abigail Lincoln, a victim of Marfan's syndrome, a genetic disorder that can cause disproportionate growth. As a young girl, she decided to dress as a man to work as a rail splitter and, thanks to some Log Cabin luck, found a male transvestite to marry ("'Take a look at a photo of Mary Todd Lincoln and you'll be convinced'"), by whom she gave birth to six children while, possibly--and here Durbeen can go no further than the evidence allows--carrying on a torrid affair with John Wilkes Booth. ... a secret cache of Mathew Brady photographs was discovered in the White House basement ... In four Brady photographs, "reproduced" in a quite lovely spread in the WWN article by Mike Foster, Lincoln sports everything from a housedress to a hoop skirt. ..... A jar of glue, used by actors to apply fake beards, found among Lincoln's personal effects at the Smithsonian Museum--along with a dozen sanitary napkins. ... (the discoverer) initially came across the claim that Lincoln was a woman in "a tattered old Confederate pamphlet," she found it preposterous: "At first, I thought it was just wartime propaganda, but then I took a closer look at a photo of Lincoln and realized the beard does look bogus." "
IMO: Many US citizens might doubt the finding, but the puzzle is, why should they be against the idea or be unduly sceptical ? The idea has now been mentioned in a number of quite sensible sources like History Co-operative. Female to male impersonation is very easy and I've seen many easy and convincing cases. Anyway, who cares ? It is, however, worth pointing out that that it is stated that the owner of "Cracked" is the editor-in-chief of "Weekly World News" where the finding that "Abe was a Babe" first appeared... "Cracked" is something like "Mad" magazine only slightly "madder". God bless America, but not its voting system, Gordon Brown at last is trying to improve the UK system and they could gain much in the USA if they did so too, instead of worrying about dead presidents who were quite probably illegally elected anyway.
"While many of you were off pursuing Lincolns sexuality, the Weekly World News broke the American history story of the 21st century: Abraham Lincoln Was a Woman! Thanks to "maverick historian Jessica Durbeen," we now know that Honest Abe was born Abigail Lincoln, a victim of Marfan's syndrome, a genetic disorder that can cause disproportionate growth. As a young girl, she decided to dress as a man to work as a rail splitter and, thanks to some Log Cabin luck, found a male transvestite to marry ("'Take a look at a photo of Mary Todd Lincoln and you'll be convinced'"), by whom she gave birth to six children while, possibly--and here Durbeen can go no further than the evidence allows--carrying on a torrid affair with John Wilkes Booth. ... a secret cache of Mathew Brady photographs was discovered in the White House basement ... In four Brady photographs, "reproduced" in a quite lovely spread in the WWN article by Mike Foster, Lincoln sports everything from a housedress to a hoop skirt. ..... A jar of glue, used by actors to apply fake beards, found among Lincoln's personal effects at the Smithsonian Museum--along with a dozen sanitary napkins. ... (the discoverer) initially came across the claim that Lincoln was a woman in "a tattered old Confederate pamphlet," she found it preposterous: "At first, I thought it was just wartime propaganda, but then I took a closer look at a photo of Lincoln and realized the beard does look bogus." "
IMO: Many US citizens might doubt the finding, but the puzzle is, why should they be against the idea or be unduly sceptical ? The idea has now been mentioned in a number of quite sensible sources like History Co-operative. Female to male impersonation is very easy and I've seen many easy and convincing cases. Anyway, who cares ? It is, however, worth pointing out that that it is stated that the owner of "Cracked" is the editor-in-chief of "Weekly World News" where the finding that "Abe was a Babe" first appeared... "Cracked" is something like "Mad" magazine only slightly "madder". God bless America, but not its voting system, Gordon Brown at last is trying to improve the UK system and they could gain much in the USA if they did so too, instead of worrying about dead presidents who were quite probably illegally elected anyway.
# posted by uv : 8:17 AM
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