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From: chabot@amber.DEC (L S Chabot)
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Subject: Re: Misogyny (Morley Safer on Burning Brides)
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Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 13:24:59 EST
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Sunny  ==  >
> ... I don't recall hearing of them burning Warlocks in Salem, only Witches.  

Actually, there were men accused of witchcraft back then.  Some were imprisoned,
and one was pressed to death while he refused to speak in his own defense (I've
forgotten his name and the details of his case that made both confessing and
denying unchoosable options). 

But I agree with Sunny's essential message.

Madonna Kolbenschlag (_Kiss_Sleeping_Beauty_Good-Bye_) also speaks of "a tradi-
tional male paranoia about women in groups" and its occasional eruption into
"sadistic vengeance in purging 'witches' and other harbingers of female energy."
This paranoia is more than misogyny: it's a fear about the subordinates rising
up and disrupting the existing order--subordinates including women and racial
and religious minorities.  The execution of witches rings to me of the Cain and
Abel clash, with its parallels in a perceived irreconcilable difference in
viewing one's relation to nature...this clash has been shivering us for a long
time... 

L S Chabot
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