• @[email protected]
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    1211 year ago

    J.H. Kellogg also claimed to be a straight man who wasn’t interested in consummating his marriage and felt no need for sex, and that the industrial-strength pressure washer enemas that blasted his prostate with gallons of water every single day were for medicinal purposes.

    • @MrJameGumb
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      691 year ago

      Didn’t he also invent corn flakes to somehow stop people from masturbating?

    • @riodoro1
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      491 year ago

      Isn’t he also the guy who made circumcision a family tradition in the US?

      • JBloodthorn
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        231 year ago

        And carbolic acid burns for baby girls, yup. Anything to reduce sensation and stop masturbation.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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      191 year ago

      The Victorian mentality of “I saw alcohol kill bacteria under the microscope so I’m prescribing vodka to everyone.” Good that everyone is sane in this century and no public figures make deductions like these anymore.

      • @[email protected]
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        201 year ago

        In John Harvey Kellogg’s case, it was even worse. Much like the guy who invented graham crackers, it was “So drunkenness leads to cirrhosis, gluttony leads to obesity, pre-condom promiscuity leads to syphilis, sports lead to injuries, and laziness leads to being a soft couch potato. Clearly this means that pleasure is actually bad and you should make sure you don’t eat anything that tastes good, don’t drink, don’t lift weights, never have sex except to produce one or two children, don’t play sports, don’t listen to music, don’t have fun, don’t enjoy anything”

      • @x4740N
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        21 year ago

        You forgot about anti-vaxxers

    • @Buddahriffic
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      111 year ago

      If bland cereals prevent masturbation, that must be why Tony the Tiger is so enthusiastic about frosted flakes.

      • @Daft_ish
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        101 year ago

        Wait, what is the frosting? WHAT IS THE FROSTING?!?

      • skylerOP
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        131 year ago

        The 2012 baby found work doing mo cap for pikmin.

  • teft
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    201 year ago

    Within 2 centuries? How fast do they think evolution works?

    • @[email protected]
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      531 year ago

      Well he was a seventh day Adventist who though cumming made Jesus cry and shot yogurt up his ass and commented that “someday black people could learn from whites how to be close approximations of people”, I don’t think science was his strong suit

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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        151 year ago

        I mean, if you believe that Earth is 4000 years old, you can’t really appretiate the time scale required for evolution…

        However, bat ears and more sophisticated speech organs would be a cool way to speed up interpersonal communication, which was still going strong back then.

  • Monkeytennis
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    171 year ago

    Not far off some I’ve seen, just needs more wrinkles

  • @The_Cleanup_Batter
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    121 year ago

    Sexist and classist fear mongering never looked so memeable.

  • Flying Squid
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    31 year ago

    Thank god my daughter was born in 2010!

  • @Silvia
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    31 year ago

    Is that Mr. Popo?