A Woman Attempts to Assassinate Mussolini
On This Day in History: April 7
They called her crazy, but shooting fascist chucklefuck Benito Mussolini in the face could be perceived as the act of a sane person. That’s what Violet Gibson did, and she gave no explanation for it. Because, really, what explanation is needed?
--On This Day in History Shit Went Down: April 7, 1926--
Mussolini came to power in Italy in 1922 via a fascist coup d’état. And being fascist, he sucked, using his secret police to eliminate all opposition to his dictatorial reign. His douchey example inspired other fascist fucksticks such as Hitler in Germany, Franco in Spain, and Salazar in Portugal.
Violet Gibson was an Irish aristocrat, the daughter of Baron Ashbourne, who lived a life of privilege. She was also a sickly child at a time when medicine had few clues on how to deal with that shit. People said she was kind of an asshole, too, prone to fits of violence. As an adult she suffered even more health issues that caused chronic pain, and in 1922 she had a breakdown and was admitted to a mental hospital. She was released after two years, and in 1925, while living in Rome, she attempted to take her own life by shooting herself in the chest, but she survived.
The following year, the target of her ire switched from herself to Mussolini. On April 7, 1926, Mussolini was walking among the crowd in Rome. Gibson, who was fifty years old at the time, walked up to him and fired a shot directly at his face, but his head moved at that precise moment and the bullet only grazed his nose. She pulled the trigger a second time, but the gun misfired, and she was tackled by the crowd.
The mob almost lynched her, but the police arrived and saved her life because they wanted to beat her up themselves back at the jailhouse. Fascist cops just like doing that kind of thing.
Her powerful family begged for her release, saying hey she’s crazy send her home and we’ll lock her up in the bin for good. Mussolini said yeah sure why not, get the crazy bitch outta my country. The British government said swell thanks Benito you’re an all-right guy.
And that’s what happened. She spent twenty-nine years, the remainder of her life, locked up in a mental hospital in Northampton, England. You’d think that after they saw the shit Mussolini pulled in subsequent years they might have reconsidered and released Gibson and pinned a bunch of medals on her, but nope. They instead adopted the attitude of “Bitches be crazy. Lock ’em up.” Good thing times have changed since then and we’ve learned to respect women. Wait. Fuck.
NOTE: This piece was researched and written by a human, not some bullshit “ai” plagiarism software.
Those who cannot remember the past need a history teacher who says “fuck” a lot. Get both volumes of ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY SH!T WENT DOWN.
Life would be better for everyone if medical research actually included women.
Women who live in constant pain get bitchy.
Inhumane things happened to our bodies in our doctors offices, without pain medication.
And believe it when I tell you that the drugs that women are given following a bout of breast cancer, which stamp out the remaining estrogen in our bodies, make us very bitchy. I’ve actually stopped taking my drug because I’m tired of being bitchy. I’m tired of being in physical pain. The drugs that are supposed to keep us healthy end up, destroying our tendons and ligaments and bone density.
And it interferes with our ability to manage our weight, our energy levels.
So the next human male that cracks a joke about women and estrogen is going to feel the pointy toe of my heavy boot at the heart of his family jewels.
That was too strange for public consumption! 🤣 And that ending! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣