I love how Christine Chubbuck has somehow become a femcel icon in the past few years after the 2016 film about her life (which was actually so good) because a lot of women can relate to her which is actually pretty sad tbhh!
She was pretty but in a supposedly severe and intimidating way because she had a strong face and persuasive manner, so the impression was that her resting bitchface and sardonic sense of humour frightened people away. And her talent for excelling in broadcast journalism at such a young age, with a bright future ahead of her renders her fate even more bizarre.
But it begs the question: if a more beautiful, intelligent, talented, and successful woman than many blew her brains out live on TV in 1974, what remains for the rest of us?
There’s this impression that in the 2020s women have it easy bc of dating apps and incel concepts like hypergamy. Why in an era where we are more connected than ever does Christine become a meme queen among weird edgelord girls? She lived in an era before the internet and dating apps, yet she is still relevant to loveless modern females to this day.
It turns out that even if you are an attractive and educated female with a modicum of success, you can still live an empty, isolated and void life where nobody even acknowledges your existence or wants to be around you.
But Christine stands apart from the rest of us because she was bold and deranged enough to kill herself live on air, which still shocks in an era of Bestgore, Liveleak and murderous shooting spree Go-Pro vids.
Christine always said that only blood and guts spoke to the larger public, and she used the gore of her own body to etch herself into the broader social memory and psychological fabric of 20th century pop culture and media.
She was the premier femcel martyr of the 70s, and we still look to her and wonder why she turned that gun on herself when she had a sleek modelesque exterior, drive for intellect and self-education, and a polished public persona at the mere age of 29. Her spirit still speaks to each individual woman who somehow sees herself in Christine. Also her horoscope was Cancer so go figure.
Edit: ok she was a Virgo but my point still stands 🫠
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On 15 July, 1974, 29-year-old Christine Chubbuck informed co-workers that she was going to read a newscast to open her talk show, Suncoast Digest, which wasn’t something she normally did. Her guest for that day’s show sat in the studio while Christine went and sat down at the news anchor’s desk.
The cameras began rolling and Christine began reading from her news report. She covered a news article on a local shooting in a restaurant. She then began reading a piece on suicide. During the reading, she explained that she would be declared dead within eleven hours and followed this by saying: “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first: an attempted suicide.”
She then produced a .38 revolver that she had concealed throughout the news report and shot herself in the head. The entire thing had been aired and members of the public began to ring 911 while others rang the station asking if it was fake.
Christine was rushed to hospital but was declared dead 14 hours later.
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Blood and Guts: Christine Chubbuck, Death and The Voyeur
i got very personal and slightly more abstract with this post - i decided to write about the two adaptations of Christine Chubbuck's death and life, CHRISTINE (2016) and KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (2016), and use them to talk about my own fascination death, especially its more shameful elements.
this will probably be the last bit of writing i post this year but i'm very glad i built up the courage to post it.
take a read here
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thinking about christine chubbuck hours
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ilove figuring out the movies my mutuals are liveblogging about its soooo fun my little game . i want to watch that one too i think rebecca hall is soo talented (has only seen her in the night house)
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one time in Berlin someone i was hanging out with looked at me and goes “are you crazy? you look kinda crazy” and i have been told that before or that my eyes look “haunted” . i always thought i looked like Christine chubbuck
Because of how a friend described her . Dark, stalk , with a long neck and hooked nose. something like an awkward swan. that is me
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weird wikipedia
my collection of strange, unsettling and depressing wikipedia articles
2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster
Acute radiation syndrome
Aktion T4
Andrea Yates
Autoerotic fatality
Bhopal disaster
Black Dahlia
Blowing from a gun
Breaking wheel
Byford Dolphin
Chernobyl disaster
Christine Chubbuck
Christopher Duntsch
Crimes against humanity
Cruel and unusual punishment
Curse of the pharaohs
Dancing plague of 1518
David Hahn
Death anxiety (psychology)
Death by boiling
Death by coconut
Death by sawing
Death from laughter
Death of Darren Rainey
Death of Gloria Ramirez
Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam
Duplessis Orphans
Ego integrity
Electroconvulsive therapy
Elena Mukhina
Engineering disasters
Euthanasia Coaster
Execution by elephant
Frank Hayes (jockey)
Fritzl case
Georgi Markov
Gladbeck hostage crisis
Goiânia accident
Great Molasses Flood
Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes
Guantanamo detainees' medical care
Haunted Castle (Six Flags Great Adventure)
Hemicorporectomy
Hunger artist
Jill Dando
Jimmy Carter rabbit incident
Karen Wetterhahn
Kidnapping of Bobby Greenlease
Kidnapping of Colleen Stan
Lake Alice Hospital
Life imprisonment in England and Wales
List of civilian radiation accidents
List of entertainers who died during a performance
List of inventors killed by their own inventions
List of methods of capital punishment
List of military nuclear accidents
List of people who died on the toilet
List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: post-1970
List of political self-immolations
List of selfie-related injuries and deaths
List of solved missing person cases
List of structural failures and collapses
List of television series canceled after one episode
List of television series canceled before airing an episode
List of unusual deaths
Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
Lists of people who disappeared
Lobotomy
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