https://youtube.com/watch?v=z9t1PyhQKlw&si=bwvh4ttCZqJtGAWg

Feminists tend to forget that warlocks exist too, which is just a male witch. Even in the TikTok videos Chad Chad reacts to, there is a whole trend of spiritual feminist women calling men “DL warlocks” or “closeted warlocks.” They describe them as narcissistic men trying to steal women’s energy or some weird shit like that.

And that’s what always makes me laugh about these conversations around witches and oppression. People act like only women were ever targeted for supernatural accusations. Meanwhile, men accused of being warlocks, sorcerers, demon worshippers, occultists, or dark magicians also got hated, feared, exiled, tortured, and killed throughout history.

A lot of feminists frame witch hunts like they were exclusively about misogyny against women. Misogyny definitely played a role in some cases. But acting like men were never accused or stigmatized is just historically incomplete.

The word “warlock” itself became associated with betrayal, devil worship, curses, and evil magic. Men accused of occult practices were often seen as dangerous corruptors or agents of Satan. Society did not exactly roll out the red carpet for them either.

What’s ironic is that modern spiritual communities still continue this stereotype. You constantly see posts about “male spiritual predators,” “energy vampires,” or “warlocks manipulating divine feminine energy.” So clearly people still associate male magic believers with danger and corruption even today.

And I notice how some people will immediately recognize harmful stereotypes against witches, but then casually throw around “warlock” as an insult toward toxic men without even realizing they are doing the exact same thing from the opposite direction.

It also ignores the fact that historically, fear of magic in general was bigger than just gender. Religious institutions and paranoid societies often feared anybody seen as having unnatural knowledge, forbidden power, or influence outside accepted norms.

In some places, male practitioners were actually more feared because people associated men with deliberate ambition, manipulation, secret societies, or dark rituals. The stereotype was not “helpless victimized man.” It was “dangerous corrupt male occultist.”

That’s why reducing witch hunts into a simple “men oppressed women because women had knowledge” narrative misses a lot of complexity. Fear, religion, superstition, politics, social paranoia, and power struggles all mixed together in messy ways.

And honestly, if modern TikTok spirituality proves anything, it’s that people still absolutely stigmatize male magic users. They just renamed the stereotype and wrapped it in social media language instead of medieval religion.