There really needs to be a study into the role misogyny played in the Satanic Panics of the 80s to the 00s because purity tests aside, it's weird we don't talk about how much women authors of horror and fantasy were targeted over male authors of the same genres (and writing about the same things). You all act like "oh but wasn't Stephen King targeted for horror writing? What about Tolkien and C.S. Lewis?" You're missing the point, they were dead at that point, but they would leap at any chance to attack living women authors for writing "occult" subjects to "lead people away from Jesus" because women are apparently more prone to doing that than men.
My god, it wasn't as much as Anne Rice was being hounded in anti-occult literature, nevermind the idea that women shouldn't be writing certain genres or about certain things unless it's for "Jesus" and get demonized for it. But back in the day, it was just books or televised sermons or "documentaries" on the evils of how fantasy literature was turning children against god or whatever. It probably effected the way you read fantasy media: I mean when was the last time someone recommended a women written fantasy book/series to you that wasn't through some weird girl in class who read tons of that stuff.
Again, there desperately needs to be a study on this, and it doesn't have to do with them being "progressive" and for trans rights, if anything the people who writing screeds against fantasy books literally see the LGBTQ+ movement as a threat to Christianity.




















