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Empowered witches
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I'll say it: adult witches are hot
Was this ever doubted?? Ofc they are
Theory - mass media creates the narrative that witches in the US are Devil worshippers, often with a pretty manly depiction of the Devil, thereby trying to enforce that they “derive their power from their relationship to a man”.
Yes, but that is hardly new. The church already did that in the middle ages and afterwards during the witch hunts.
because being in a coven with amazing women is preferable than being near high school boys.
I remember this happening when I was a teen, and there are still many women I know into it.
My mother was a self proclaimed witch since the 80's/90's, and told me as a child fairies were real, and constantly told me I "had psychic powers." She read my cards and all that. It fucked me up wholly, and pushed me to science and fact. It's not for me, and I don't understand the fascination. But, if it makes other women happy, it's really harmless.
it’s really harmless.
No its not. Belief in bullshit has negative consequences for the individual, their friends and family, and society as a whole.
Now, is it comparatively less harmful than some other things they could believe in? Absolutely but its still bad.
This is an ironically anti-intellectual way to engage with it. Magic isnt real, but knowledge on the natural world and medicine has been maintained through cultural practices like "witchcraft" in the past. Even beyond that, there's knowledge gained for young women in a patriarchal society when they develop relationships with other women and identify with a group that is explicitly counter-cultural on the basis of women empowerment.
Knowledge isn't just facts, it's skills and introspection. Belief in something "bullshit" is often necessary to learn something that is not "bullshit." We teach kids scientifically inaccurate information when they are young because they dont have a basis of knowledge that would enable more nuanced and accurate understandings. They "believe" in something like three states of matter and two genders/sexes because we judge that as a necessary belief to foster the skills that will enable them to learn the reality of these things later.
If they gained self - understanding and empowerment through this phase, then it isn't bullshit. You should challenge this doomerism.
Belief in something “bullshit” is often necessary to learn something that is not “bullshit.”
I fundamentally disagree.
I actually don't think we should teach bullshit and call it "foundational". I don't think that's helpful at all. If you are teaching kids states of matter, they can count higher than three, and understand that the class wont cover every kind of matter.
If one's "foundational" education ends up directly contradicting advanced education, it ends up being a way to cement simplified and conservative views of the world. A la "there are two genders" shit that you mention from conservatives and TERFs. If your education system is fostering that kind of mentality its a reflection of that education system's failure.
Even beyond that, there’s knowledge gained for young women in a patriarchal society when they develop relationships with other women and identify with a group that is explicitly counter-cultural on the basis of women empowerment.
I'd rather women get together based on a shared love of science and engineering.
If they'd rather dress up and act as witches they should get into theater or become goths. Or just celebrate Halloween year round.
If they gained self - understanding and empowerment through this phase, then it isn’t bullshit.
But they didn't. They obtained a new form of constructed collective delusion & superstition. They're forming just another arbitrary aesthetics-based in-group to sneer at out-groups from.
You should challenge this doomerism.
Did you read my profile or something?
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I was tryin to have good grace here
I know some people do it as a hobby/curiosity/passion/personality thing. They don't actually believe it, but it's fun and looks cool. That's harmless. The people who believe it's real though? That's not as harmless. It makes you less engaged with reality and fact, and maybe you won't participate in actual work to fix things because you think your magic is just as good, or better.
Is this just girls?
Am boy, had a witchy phase
Not witchcraft but, I went through a "try to train hard enough to get Dragon Ball Z powers" phase for similar reasons.
Are you... Gerald?
side question: why is the "DO" emphasized in the first post? when I try reading it like this it sounds so awkward and unnatural. shouldn't the emphasis be on "why"?
The undead are safer to be around than a man.
But what about undead vs a bear?
Being a witch is not a gender specific thing. There's plenty of women and men that don't relate to dumb shit like Christianity, Judaism or Islam, yet they'd like to see something happen beyond what they know to control.
Leave these people the fuck alone. I'm legit starting to consider setting fire to churches in the midwest. Stop tempting me.
I didn't so much "go through an occult phase", I just believed every supernatural tale I heard for the first 10+ years of my life and feared the consequences of not being prepared for them all to happen to me, went through an obnoxious joyless atheist phase in high school in part due to my disappointment at realizing none of it's real, then came back around to it as an adult because it's fun
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