The Feminist theory that the European witch hunts were caused by misogyny can't be true because in many places most convicted witches were men. It's no rocket science.

Blutarg · 2022-02-12T17:35:42+00:00

You are right. But not only that: look at the American witch hunts, where the accusers were women. It's a strange kind of "misogyny" to take the word of a woman over the word of a man!

DanteLivra · 2022-02-12T18:56:57+00:00

As always :

Men and women burned alive, women most affected.

The erasure of male suffering is real.

InannaXanthus · 2022-02-12T12:04:21+00:00

You are referring to Silvia Federici's "Caliban and the Witch" feminist history book,right?

pride4eva93 · 2022-02-12T18:52:23+00:00

Even in the most famous witch hunt in the US-The Salem Witch Trials-five of the 18 victims were men. And to make it worse, all the accusers were female (literally teen girls and one woman were the eyewitnesses who were used). Yet that somehow always gets left out whenever feminists discuss The Salem Witch Trials.

Alarming_Draw · 2022-02-12T22:54:57+00:00

I think a LOT of modern feminism is genuinely due to vile bitter women who want revenge for those days as they see themselves similarly as social outcasts.

Fucking ironic that the original witch hunts started after the gossip of a few local WOMEN about a few others they didnt like, was BELIEVED by the local men. LITERALLY. The men did what modern women tell us to always do-to ALWAYS BELIEVE WOMEN. So they did.

This is established historical FACT.

WeEatBabies · 2022-02-12T22:39:22+00:00

Yup!

Feminist trying to re-write history!

nyarlathotep999 · 2022-02-12T15:13:41+00:00

Something important to see about this is that most neopagan "witches" (they call themselves wiccan a lot of the time) were brought up in Christian homes where the chance of being indoctrinated to revere martyrs is high. They get into it out of a need to rebel against their upbringing a lot, but carry this into their new faith. A huge majority of these people are also woke feminist environmentalists, and so you combine the subconscious adoration for martyrs with the woke political victim complex with a marginal religion that claims to draw its roots from ancient defunct faiths, and you get a cocktail that spins this kind of propaganda. And I'm speaking as a person who spent a large chunk of time studying and practicing wicca. I promise this is where a lot of it is coming from.

sorebum405 · 2022-02-12T16:14:37+00:00

I think Martin van ~~creed~~ Creveld debunks this in his book the privileged sex.

Zauxst · 2022-02-12T14:53:21+00:00

I am so done with people judging people in "ancient times" that I do not even know, would never know, or would never hang on with.

It doesn't matter at all what happened in the past in some countries and then generalize it to fit some narrative. Sure, men had political power in history... Huppy-fucking-ray.... Who cares about something that happened 3 generations ago?

It's so annoying when I see this crazy line of thinking in order to push some idiotic agenda in modern times... We are no longer Hunter-gatherers. I don't care lady if you want to be a CEO, a mother or a time traveler... If I need you, I'll buzz, and same goes to if you would need me...

CryingMadGirl · 2022-02-12T19:51:04+00:00

In finland they were mostly men. Also its more like “being scared of something we don’t know about”

Jaffacakes-and-Jesus · 2022-02-12T20:56:17+00:00

Feminist historian Dianne Purkis did a pretty good job of debunking the "witch hunting is reducible to misogyny" claim of some of her more ideological colleagues in her book The Witch in History. It's worth a read and the relevant section is on Google Books for free.

rosewiththornzzz · 2022-02-13T03:05:42+00:00

Now this is true. HOWEVER, while misogyny plays no part in it, it was mostly female witches that were displayed in front of crowds to be burned. The slaughtering of male witches was not as publicized as that of women which is what has made it such a controversial thing of this day. Now in America it was different. Make and female witches were both publicly hung, however not as many men were convicted in America for witchcraft. In Europe? Definitely more men, just wasn’t made as public as that of women. But yes I agree with you, none of it had to do with misogyny in the least. Now in the 1400s that’s something else entirely. But from the 16-1800s, yes I agree with you.

SuperStateSamBamCam · 2022-02-13T04:55:02+00:00

Feminists are con artists. Seriously. The whole movement is one big con. Don't be surprised by it. Expect it. See it coming. It's always a lie.

RandomHuman2354 · 2022-02-12T11:16:01+00:00

Yeah, many men were burned alive for being suspected witch so it's not technically misogyny.

But I can't see how it is related to men's rights in any way.

YUPitsME_RICK · 2022-02-12T13:00:37+00:00

source?

visicircle · 2022-02-12T19:38:59+00:00

Maybe they just killed annoying assholes in those days. You know?

Noisy_Corgi · 2022-02-12T22:11:00+00:00

To reduce it down to "misogyny" is obviously overly reductionist and incorrect. It is however, also overly reductionist and incorrect to completely discount the role that anti-woman sentiment played in the witch hunting craze. Reading the Maleficium Maleficarum, there's a significant amount of prejudice displayed with pontificating about why women are so prone to devil worship.

Edit: pretending there wasn't anti woman sentiment back then is just disingenuous.

Allanoke · 2022-02-12T18:06:31+00:00

The witch hunts were caused by a man who was excommunicated from the catholic church after multiple failed attempts to get this one woman legally killed by a court. After falling so many times, he wrote a book about witches and how to "test" for them.

Edit: I was wrong. It was an Inquisitor who wasn't excommunicated, but did cause a resurgence in witch hunts with the Malleus Maleficarum.

thealphateam · 2022-02-12T15:54:57+00:00

Man are they grasping.

fuckredditors123 · 2022-02-12T18:39:17+00:00

"feminist theory"

wheeeeeha · 2022-02-13T01:57:45+00:00

Feminism isn't about being right, it's about pretending to be a victim.

Shot-Ad8191 · 2022-02-13T02:50:54+00:00

Somebody ... Pls "correct" the feminists and their enablers. Ala Delbert Grady.

TAPriceCTR · 2022-02-12T16:31:46+00:00

There has never been a witch hunt when the percentage of male accusers was higher than the percentage of male victims.

MrStone1 · 2022-02-12T21:57:39+00:00

It was the Abrahamic God that caused the witch burnings, The Abrahamic religions are misogynistic among other things.

LouisdeRouvroy · 2022-02-13T00:03:40+00:00

The witch hunts were very different depending on the country where they took place. In Germanic countries there was definitely a misogynistic element to it, but it's far from being the main driving force of the hunt which indeed got many men killed.

Title	The Feminist theory that the European witch hunts were caused by misogyny can't be true because in many places most convicted witches were men. It's no rocket science.
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Date	February 12, 2022 10:28 AM UTC (4 years ago)
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