this is also beyond the point because, rt, this can only be a wilful misunderstanding about how, like, words work,** but it is also ridiculous to claim that this lil feminist bumper sticker phrase is historically inaccurate when this post (1) consistently uses gender neutral language even when talking about witch hunts in the US; (2) claims that the concept of a witch is unisex; (3) thinks LOCAL CLERGYMEN were telling people to calm down and stop hunting witches ??????
it seems actively anti-feminist to gloss over the proportion of women who were targeted by specifically witch hunts (which you are conflating with several other persecutions). it took 30 seconds to google "witch hunt gender statistics" and find multiple academic (non ~pop-feminist~ -- bullshit term because feminism, just like every single social and political movement, is an entire academic study that serves as the base of all forms of feminism) sources about the gendered nature of witch hunts: a 2023 piece published in gender and history, the library of congress, university of cambridge, jhu journal of women's history, ole miss, broedel's book about Malleus Maleficarum, the european witch hunt by julian goodare, a case of witchcraft by robert rapley, to name a few. i am not going to screenshot these pieces in hopes that you will actually read them, but that may be a tall order.
to address this, which doesnt make the point you think it does:
yes, the author of malleus maleficarum was deranged and made shit up? obviously? witches are not real? but, to use your example of mein kamf, just as mein kamf is instructive for how antisemitism existed in germany rather than an analysis of the causes of WWII (have you ever heard of a primary source?), MM is instructive to see how people viewed witches (who, again, are not real) in the time of witch hunts.
so why on earth would you assume a legacy of oppression of women, specifically, does not belong to the women who ~invoke~ (read: put a bumper sticker on their car) it? do we ask every oppressed person to trace their ancestry to justify their opinions about their oppression? is it incomprehensible that a woman can relate to being targeted for being outside the norm? do you really think that the women who invoke (again, its a bumper sticker phrase) this are all just wiccan and atheists? even if witch hunts WERENT women specific and instead were a gender blind persecution of "random" victims of mass hysteria, disabled, heretics, atheists, Jews, folk healers, early scientists, as you claim, does this exclude women? what about women who fit one or more of those categories? are they also claiming a legacy that doesnt belong to them? its incredible the consistency of the use of the term "people" and then specifying that when you think of victims of witch hunts you think of a boy who's grandfather is jewish?
not even going to touch the clergymen bit except that boy, you would be surprised at who initiated and presided over the witch trials
** as for how words work: words serve as shortcuts for explaining meaning, history, concepts, and ideas, so that people dont have to do all this ^^^^^ to convey an idea
