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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
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Subject: Re: Misogyny (Morley Safer on Burning Brides)
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Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 14:27:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 15 14:27:40 1984
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<Burning bugs for failure to eat bugeater lines>

| I mean, (lapsing back to Richard's example) I don't recall hearing of
| them burning Warlocks in Salem, only Witches.
| - Sunny Kirsten


Sorry..  They NEVER burned anyone in Salem.  They HUNG a number of people.
The victims were both men and women.  The primary accusers were teenage girls.
And, incidentally, Cotton Mather had little to do with it.  Most of the
slur on his name was generated by a personal rival who had a wider readership.
Encyclopedia Brittannica has an excellent analysis of both Mather and the
Salem witch trials.

Incidentally, burnings DID take place through most of Europe, and men
and women alike were burned there too.

There are enough cases of misogyny without having to invent new ones.


Hutch