Not trying to go on a rant (and yet already ranting) but I’m sick of people faking that “granddaughters of the witches you couldn’t burn” isn’t an AWESOME feminist catchphrase, and branding it as white feminism because “Karen your granny is a christian conservative” like yesss it’s true my granny is a christian conservative but she also secretly had her tubes tied in an illegal clinic because my grandpa was against birth control, and my great-grandma ran away from home at 15 because her parents were against interracial marriage, and my great-great-grandma fled her country because there were no job opportunities for poor women there, and my other grandma also fled her country because her boyfriend tried to force her to have an abortion and she wanted to have her baby, and my mom never married and chose to raise a child on her own, and I am a feminist butch lesbian, and this is what this quote is about, it’s not about your granny being pagan, it’s about valuing your matrilineal lineage of subversive women, even if their subversion was minimal, because they could have been killed or maimed any time by men for not conforming to gender roles even in the slightest way, after all, the witches who indeed were burned were more often than not also just regular, mostly christian conservative, women that somehow pissed off a man
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I don't dream of a future where little girls grow up wanting to be ceos, or lockheed martin scientists, or soldiers, or whatever a human recourses developer is. I dream of a world where girls grow up wanting to be occultist practitioners, and sex workers, and unhinged artists, and boys.
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🩷Aphrodite Things🩷
blowing kisses to your reflection in the mirror
having a collection of fun things to use in a bath
having so many dried rose petals you don’t know what to do with them
glitter pens for shadow work
seashells. so many seashells.
picking up on insecurities that others have, without them telling you or being super obvious about it
having a signature perfume or jewelry piece
your skin care routine is a prayer
dancing alone in your room to your favorite songs
floral teas as a pick-me-up after a bad day
reading poetry and books from the romantic period, especially those written by women
the wild touch to your hair when it dries after rain
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when will the gods erase men off this world and leave everything to women
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This Nonsense again:
I just can't get how People can think that saying "Actually those Victims of Persecution weren't killed senselessly, there actually was a real Reason on their Part for it" is even remotely an empowering Take.
People need to understand that the Victims and Targets of the Witch Trials were innocent¹ People and none of them were Witches, especially not in that modern, pop-feminist Way² People like to see them. You rob yourself of crucial Insights to understand most historical Persecutions, if you don't accept that very often those solely founded on Conspiracy Theories, Mass Hysteria and coerced Confessions.
Acting like the Victims of those were actually what their Persecutors thought them to be (but in ~cool~) is just disrespectful and relativizes their Suffering, as it in a Way posthumously justifies it.
So, no. They don't burned them (them, not "you"³) for being some cool empowered Proto-Feminists, but out of Superstition, Begrudgery and Greed and most importantly, because they could get away with it.
1 I don't have the Topic present enough to say for certain that no Victim actually did the Harm they were accused for, but they definitely didn't do it by Witchcraft.
2 Ironically the Image of the Witch as this empowered, independent Woman with secret Knowledge scorned by the Church that is so popular today was very much shaped by Heinrich Himmler (of "Head of the SS in Nazi-Germany"-Fame).
3 It honestly is just ridiculous to act like there is any shared Community specifically between modern self-identified Witches and those People who were persecuted and murdered as such, once again pure Disrespect for them.
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