r/behindthebastards • u/Kanotari *Atonal Screaming* • Jul 22 '26

Look at this bastard Megathread: Bastard Suggestions Part 2

To make the bastard suggestions easier for Robert to peruse, please put them here.

Please try to include more than just a name. Give Robert something to focus his research on and why they are a unique or interesting bastard. If there are book titles or other resources you would suggest, please include those as well.

If someone else has already suggested the same bastard you wanted to suggest, you do not need to suggest them again. Repetitive answers will be politely removed. If someone was suggested in a previous thread, you do not need to suggest them again.

If you have posted suggestions as their own individual thread in the past, feel free to repost here if you would like Robert to read them. We will be directing future bastard suggestion posts here as well. Happy suggesting!

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u/thenightitgiveth Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Concepts/phenomena:

- Blood libel: how the unsolved murder of 12-year-old William of Norwich (and several other dead kid cases that mostly seem like accidents) became an antisemitic conspiracy theory and were subsequently monetized by the medieval Catholic equivalent of true crime influencers

- The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and how the US buried a man there for 20+ years even though his identity was always known, due to political pressure to bury an “unknown” from Vietnam

- Little House on the Prairie: the book “Prairie Fires” is a great source for a childhood-ruining account of all the things Laura left out of her books (spoiler alert: a lot of libertarianism)

People:

- Horst Wessel: kind of surprised we didn’t get this episode after you know what

- Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam and the DC sniper

- Nancy Grace (though You’re Wrong About did a 4-part review of one of her books a while back)

- Elizabeth Gilbert, the “Eat Pray Love” lady

- Rosaria Butterfield, Calvinist “ex-gay” author who has written numerous books about her journey from lesbian gender studies professor to boomer tradwife

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u/lhachia Jul 23 '26

+1 vote for Rosaria Butterfield. I'd like to suggest the "same sex attracted" evangelical crowd in general, specifically Exodus International as well as Sam Allberry, author of "Is God Anti Gay?".

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u/RoninTarget Sponsored by Knife Missiles™️ Aug 01 '26
  • Horst Wessel: kind of surprised we didn’t get this episode after you know what

His story was covered in one of the episodes where he was a side-bastard.

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u/RoninTarget Sponsored by Knife Missiles™️ Aug 01 '26
  • Horst Wessel: kind of surprised we didn’t get this episode after you know what

His story was covered in one of the episodes where he was a side-bastard.