Feminists
Related: About this forumThe Right Is Furious With Liberal White Women
To defend such treatment of activists many of them women right-wingers need to cast them as enemies of the state.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/opinion/republicans-ice-white-women.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
https://archive.ph/EzyzY
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Walleye
(43,895 posts)They have always hated women of all colors. But it wasnt as pronounced with white women because they are necessary breeders. Now even that rail is down.
DBoon
(24,773 posts)In the early modern period, from about 1400 to 1775, about 100,000 people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and British America.[1] Between 40,000 and 60,000 were executed, almost all in Europe.[2][3] The witch hunts were particularly severe in parts of the Holy Roman Empire. Prosecutions for witchcraft reached a high point from 1560 to 1630,[4][5] during the Counter-Reformation and the European wars of religion.
- wikipedia
Walleye
(43,895 posts)mnhtnbb
(33,157 posts)The book is believed to be one of the main sources used by William
Shakespeare in the production of Macbeth. Shakespeare attributed many quotes and rituals found within the book directly to the 'Weird Sisters', yet also attributed the Scottish themes and settings referenced from the trials in which King James was involved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemonologie
Although the mother of James was Mary, Queen of Scots, who was Catholic, James was raised as a Protestant. He succeeded his cousin, Elizabeth I, in 1603 and reigned in Scotland, England, and Ireland until his death in 1625.
The witch hunts were the means by which women in Europe were educated about their new social tasks and a massive defeat was inflicted on Europe's 'lower classes,' who needed to learn about the power of the state to desist from any form of resistance to its rule.
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici. PM Press 2018. pp. 32-33.
When I was in Scotland last fall, on a two week trip prior to seeing the RSC production of Macbeth in Stratford-upon-Avon, I spent some time reading about the history of witch hunting in Scotland. I even did a two hour walk in Edinburgh with an Italian woman guide--who holds a doctorate in Art History from the University of Edinburgh--devoted to the history of witchcraft in Edinburgh. It was a fascinating tour. The Protestant Reformation may have changed some religious practices and beliefs from the Catholic Church, but it did not veer away from the concept or practice of patriarchal dominance.
Lovie777
(21,915 posts)white women are targets, even death.
bucolic_frolic
(54,173 posts)sop
(17,613 posts)White liberal women want nothing to do with rightwing yahoos.
dedl67
(176 posts)That is becoming more difficult, as the trend is for women to outnumber men in universities. That trend is creating an increasing number of men who have trouble finding partners, which is not a good thing for society.
irisblue
(36,913 posts),snip-"Its true that, once again, a majority of white women (51%) voted for Donald Trump.
Its also true that white women voted for Trump by a smaller margin than they did in 2020. While still leaning Republican, white women supported Trump by 4 points in 2024 (51% to 47%), compared to an 8-point margin in 2020 (53% to 45%).
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/
snip-"One-in-ten Black women and 21% of Black men voted for Trump in the most recent election."
A whole LOT of white woman are responsible for the apricothellbeast in office.
sop
(17,613 posts)irisblue
(36,913 posts)It is very likely that some white liberal, especially high net worth women, who are ostensibly financially & socially 'safer' married to & raising republican oriented individuals voted for their pocketbook, not for principles.
SheltieLover
(77,168 posts)Reading, writing, thunking, & demanding fair treatment for all, including the planet that sustains life, & all our planetary neighbors = "elitists."
NJCher
(42,567 posts)To make conservative white women look like freaks with mar a lago face.
ToxMarz
(2,773 posts)niyad
(129,836 posts)by the day.
no_hypocrisy
(54,399 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(10,337 posts)And then send them to any meeting held by these fascists. Let these idiots who think they are tough find out what tough is.
yorkster
(3,700 posts)niyad
(129,836 posts)yorkster
(3,700 posts)There is a lot of anger out there about what this regime is getting away with, so far anyway.
Sorry ..not fully up yet either.
niyad
(129,836 posts)to make sure.
yorkster
(3,700 posts)littlemissmartypants
(31,835 posts)paleotn
(21,674 posts)Enemies of all that's good and moral and should be prosecuted as such.
MLWR
(802 posts)I'm furious with them. I think trump's thugs should get the F out of Minneapolis. They are causing more trouble, more injuries and more death than the protesters ever did.
littlemissmartypants
(31,835 posts)They need to be scared and we need to keep them on the back foot whenever, wherever and for as long as possible.
❤️ RESIST!! ✊️
Clouds Passing
(7,127 posts)All those little rats afraid of the mother raging in chaos.
Joinfortmill
(20,208 posts)dlk
(13,132 posts)They are incapable of seeing women as fully capable and autonomous adults, deserving of full rights. Its a pathology.
ariadne0614
(2,097 posts)#NotGoingBack
Norrrm
(4,120 posts)liberalla
(10,857 posts)Oh, they're just always angry!