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Rose Kennedy

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Why she might be annoying:

    She stood by her cheating husband even though she was aware of his many mistresses.
    She said 'I looked upon child rearing as a profession' yet she on occasion left her infant children in the care of others and had a full time staff.
    She allowed her daughter Rosemary to undergo a lobotomy (1941).
    She gave her son John her maiden name for his middle name.
    She remained a parent even to her grown children, for example sending a letter to her son Ted that he was mispronouncing nuclear, telling Bobby to get a haircut and advising John to speak slower.
    She spanked her children with a ruler or clothes hanger.
    She tried to stop her daughter Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy from marrying a Protestant. After the marriage she took to her bed for 2 months.
    She had nine childrens. She outlived four of them.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was selected for Good Housekeeping Magazine's Most Admired Women in America in 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1977.
    She graduated high school at 16.
    She maintained the same dress size most of her adult life.
    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Square was named in her honor in Dorchester, Massachusetts (1992).
    At her death she had the longest life of any presidential relative.
    She was a supporter of the Special Olympics.
    Pope Pius XII named her a countess.
    She mothered the first Catholic president in the US.
    She was a philanthropist.
    Her father was mayor of Boston, and her children became senators and presidents.
    She was an avid golfer.
    She was extraordinarily fond of her daughter-in-law Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

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Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 83 Votes: 42.17% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 195 Votes: 48.21% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 100 Votes: 48.00% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 260 Votes: 44.23% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 343 Votes: 53.06% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 36 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 11 Votes: 72.73% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 33 Votes: 24.24% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 20 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 226 Votes: 66.37% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 129 Votes: 50.39% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 72 Votes: 45.83% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 41 Votes: 75.61% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 78 Votes: 43.59% Annoying