Talk:Ed Gein

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Mental health?[edit]

Was Gein ever diagnosed with a mental disorder? 50.75.17.106 (talk) 14:56, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Schizophrenia. Discussed a bit in the Trial section. Larry Hockett (Talk) 16:08, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Popular culture: Ed Gein in visual art[edit]

In 1987 Belgian artist Danny Devos had an exhibition titled "In Memory of Ed Gein". https://www.performan.org/exhibitions/solo-exhibitions/in-memory-of-ed-gein/ The exhibition included several remakes of Ed Gein artefacts such as 'Ed Gein Gloves', facemasks, a lampshade, a nipplebelt, etc. The 'Ed Gein Gloves' were part of a show 'Crime in Art' at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków and are featured on the cover of the catalogue. https://en.mocak.pl/crime-in-art-catologue 109.132.19.138 (talk) 12:18, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm...that would belong primarily in the article of Danny Devos, where it is indeed already mentioned. But imho it would just blow up the "In popular culture" section, which is rather bloated as it is. Lectonar (talk) 14:22, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Movie Landscape Suicide by James Benning[edit]

The movie Landscape Suicide features an actor playing Ed Gein as one of the two principal figures. 2804:D4B:8900:4E00:5426:A8B3:6F81:85C3 (talk) 12:23, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Skinned by Blind Melon inclusion in "Pop Culture"[edit]

Skinned, Track 4 of Soup (Blind Melon album) is a whole song about Ed Gein, (Not just a peripheral reference to him.) On the other hand, no matter how good the song is (imho), or how critically acclaimed the album, I doubt this reference could be considered culturally relevant at the level of Psycho (1960 film). I am nevertheless adding this here in talk so others can be aware it was at least considered. Hardgumbo (talk) 20:26, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Source 16 is sketchy[edit]

The Smith dog story fits Augusta’s general vibe but is that “men’s news daily” blog post (let’s be honest, it’s a blog post, not an article) really the best source we have for it? The page is full of bizarre mojibake (every quotation mark has become “ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œ“ and every apostrophe “ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢”, presumably by being recursively mangled by a Unicode parsing screwup multiple times) and the author neither cites any real sources for the Smith story or suggests that they did original research for it which makes it sus

Voidify (talk) 09:23, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]