Are we ready to talk about how the Salem Witch trials are an example of white women’s & white girlhood’s sociopathy?
And I’m not saying they are the only ones responsible for it by any means. It couldn’t have occurred without the final violence of the institutions of white men.
Basically white women & girls used the Puritan fears of patriarchy to persecute women they didn’t like & saw as rivals. & They did it by first persecuting an enslaved Black woman in the center of their racial & gender angst & chaos.
The real witches were actually the white women & girls who energetically & institutionally employed patriarchy to murder other women.
I hate all these “we were the witches you didn’t burn” tweets, cause actually most of y’all are prob the daughters of women who got the patriarchy to hang their rivals. Which is such a timeless story for white women.
Y’all are not the daughters of witches, you are the daughters of lynchers.
Basically white womanhood & white girlhood in the context of settler colonialism can only be maintained through murder, torture, unlawful imprisonment, lying, & hanging.
There’s clearly a whole nother story here about white men trying to get rid of women & their medicinal practices that traces back to Europe. Also racism & religious prosecution. But I feel like that one is more known & named then white womens exact type of fuckery.
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