I highly recommend the book Caliban And The Witch by Silvia Federici.
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In the interest of historical accuracy, 'they' burned men and women as witches. Notably, in Iceland nearly everyone executed as a witch was male.
World wide 75% of killed persons accused of witch craft were women.
Just in the interest of historical accuracy.
women and their allies 😬
World wide 99% of military deaths have been mentioned. Theres murder, death and tragedy everywhere. We're all victims.
If you disagree I'll call you a witch...or recruit you.
Why would I disagree? This here is about witches though. Let’s stay on topic.
then there's Giles Corey ... not burned, but pressed to death
Oh no, that’s where the saying “I’d be hard pressed to do —“ came from, isn’t it.. (not that specific event but the uh.. method?)
People are horrible. Colloquialisms are (usually) horrible.
Thanks for pointing out the one exceptional case where women didn't comprise the majority of people murdered. That really helps!
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It's really just something that I learned recently and thought was interesting, which happened to be relevant to this post.
Just in the interests of everyone getting along, I think you should have opened with that context. Your first post sounds like you're arguing that women weren't oppressed or something. It was interesting to read about though, and I'm glad you shared it.
Fair enough, that was not my intention. I will admit that I find the format of this post to be kind of performative and pointless, so maybe that came across in my comment. That said, I do not disagree with the message or underlying sentiment.
An entire ideological movement forming around a widely believed historical inaccuracy?
I think that's called a religion.
What ideological movement are you talking about?
Please elaborate what exactly falls under “widely believed historical inaccuracy”?!
The men were crushed under stones.
"More weight!" - Gils Corey
Just the ones they didn't like.
They act just like the usa's political party... and say the others are the worst thing imaginable.
And once youve taken that step there isn't a lot that you wont do to them.
James 6/1 disliked any woman with any power over men and used witch hunting as a tool for stripping social power from women
"Oh no, we feel like we're being plagued by magic users who's supernatural abilities are believed to include turning into other creatures, vanishing and flying. How will we catch them?"
"Eh, let's just set fire to the old widow who lives outside the villiage, she has a weird, hairy, wart on her nose. Oh, and Bob. He beat me at dice once. Let's set fire to him too"
But only if they weighed the same as a duck.