"... independent women who have chosen not to have children, aren’t always coupled, often defy traditional beauty norms (letting their hair go gray), and thus operate outside the established social order."
From "A French Feminist Tells Us to Embrace Our Inner Hag" (NYT)(reviewing "IN DEFENSE OF WITCHES/The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial").
Since [Mona] Chollet’s childhood, the word ["witch"] “has had a magnetic hold on me,” she writes. “Something about it fizzes with energy. The word speaks of a knowledge that lies close to the ground, a vital power, an accumulated force of experience that official sources disdain or repress.”...
Sometimes, by choice or by circumstance, a woman becomes what Chollet calls a “femme fondue,” or dissolving woman, who becomes overwhelmed by “the service reflex” and disappears into motherhood or child care, losing her grip on the first person.
We're told that the book refers to all of these feminists: Rebecca Traister, Gloria Steinem, Susan Faludi, Adrienne Rich, Susan Sontag, Elizabeth Gilbert, Audre Lorde, and Rebecca Solnit.
What about Mary Daly?!
When I think of feminism and witches, I think of Mary Daly. As Wikipedia puts it: "Daly said it is the role of women to unveil the liberatory nature of labels such as 'Hag,' 'Witch,' and 'Lunatic.'" That links to a page in Ruether, "Women and Redemption: A Theological History" where we find this snappy paragraph:
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AKA 'Unattractive Lesbians.'
Deep Thoughts: Is it permitted to call as male-to-female trans-witch a hag?
Sometimes by choice or by circumstance a woman becomes what Chollet calls a “femme fondue”
Okay, i'm ALL for personal choice; but IF a woman self identifies as a “femme fondue,”
isn't she Just ASKING, to be boiled in oil? Or drowned in chocolate, i mean; her choice, right?
Hey! What about Warlocks? Don't we get any respect?
C'mon, you hag-iographic idolatresses! Equal billing here!
If she floats like a witch, Has a big nose like a witch, Consorts with Satan like a witch..
Radical Feminists embrace labels such as 'Hag,' 'Witch,' and 'Lunatic.'
Now, aren't these gals just getting a little hysterical?
"isn't she Just ASKING, to be boiled in oil? Or drowned in chocolate, i mean; her choice, right?"
"Fondue" means melted and the book was written in French. Not sure the food reference was in the original.
My middle daughter, who is gorgeous, had her daughter at 40 and is letting her hair go gray. She is happily married to a successful sculptor and is as unlike a witch as I can imagine.
It's My 600lb Life and Dr Pimple Popper with a cooler backstory.
It's good that Prof Althouse remembers ex-nun, Nag Gnostic, Mary Daly, who, for some bizarre reason a Catholic University let run rampant for years & years (another triumph of university management by the Jesuits).
And, yes, I understand what academic freedom is. Academic freedom does not allow a professor to routinely & publicly abuse students in her classes who just happen to be male. Mary Daly wanted academic freedom for herself. It wasn't something she felt needed to be extended to her students, especially the male ones.
"Radical Feminists embrace labels such as 'Hag,' 'Witch,' and 'Lunatic.'
Now, aren't these gals just getting a little hysterical?"
That made me laugh out loud.
The whole feminist-as-witch thing is so douchey, though. The white, middle-class Karen absolutely howling, "Someone! Anyone! Please other me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
Don't "nags" typically implore their husbands to complete some task they've been neglecting to accomplish? Who can be a nag outside a marital context?
If a woman nags in a forest and no husband hears her....
Ann Althouse berates me, when she said...
"Fondue" means melted and the book was written in French. Not sure the food reference was in the original.
it's wasn't; but i could Not resist. Also, they said it meant 'dissolved' which made no sense,
'melted' makes it all clear.. and yet somehow deliciously cheesy
(Eaglebeak)
Speaking of remembering:
Remember Kate Millett? Nutty as a fruitcake.
I watched Mary Daly in action back in the day. Her brand of "feminism" was one thing. The rapturous response to it was the scary part. Early warning sign in the culture wars.
Why not? Men should be embracing their inner Berzerker. In ritual fire circles with mass quantities of fermented grain beverage. Shamans or Priests need not apply.
It seems people like this are insistent that they measure their choices ('letting' their hair go gray) by a 20th century version of what a woman should be.
Practicing witchcraft is not playing a game like trick or treating at Halloween or dressing up for a costume party. It is a serious way to control people and nature which was the original religious practice of tribes allover the earth. See, Aztecs sacrifices done in Mexico until the Spanish stopped it 500 years ago. But it is great fun for the witch.
Feminists and masculinists sitting on the wall. That said, there is no mystery in sex and conception. A woman and man have four choices: abstention, prevention, adoption, and compassion, and self-defense through reconciliation. The wicked solution a.k.a. planned parent/hood a.k.a. reproductive rites is a modern tribute to the ancient progressive liberal practice of witches and warlocks present who sacrifice human life for social, redistributive, clinical, and fair weather causes.
The white, middle-class Karen absolutely howling, "Someone! Anyone! Please other me"
And, Crack, that made me laugh out loud.
Hey! What about Warlocks? Don't we get any respect?
Of course, warlocks and witches are equal and complementary, but not all warlocks and witches share their masculinist brothers and feminist sisters' sex chauvinistic ideology and narcissistic religion.
Did people like this always exist and are only visible now due to the Internet or are they a new phenomena in the world? This almost seems like a Babylon Bee article...
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/398133.php#398133
No words- I have no words…
A bit too much on the nose (no pun intended). Witches of certain demoncratic (sic) orders were known to sacrifice human life to sustain their viability.
Do a Venn diagram of radical leftists and hags. I'm guessing hags will be a congruent subset.
Mary Daly was a loon in her day. Projecting the lines she'd be a super-loon today, adopting every moonbeam idea.
"Did people like this always exist?" Yes.
You did mean 'bitter, stupid women,' right?
It is an Ouroboros of navel-gazing.
She turned me in to a newt!
I was almost hoping this would be an article about cholent.
That would have been a very boring article indeed, but better than this one.
If you are childless, partnerless, negligent about your appearance and living on the fringes of society, you might as well celebrate it, but it's unlikely that many people who don't have those disabilities will join you in celebrating them.
Do we really live in a "cocko-cracy"?
Should we?
And shouldn't that be "cock-ocracy"?
"Hey! What about Warlocks? Don't we get any respect?"
The coven traditionally served the needs of Satan, not the bystanders.
I listened to a Rogan podcast on a plane flight yesterday; interviewing Matt Taibbi (although in this one Rogan did most of the talking).
They were talking about journalism and somehow got into ancient manuscripts, and Rogan commented that when people first learned how to communicate through written language, they mostly wrote about who the witches were and what they were up to.
I don't know if he was just BS'ing, but I thought it was amusing.
Auntie Em! Auntie Em! I'll get you my pretty; and your little dog too.
The insurgent Munchkins approved of witch death, even by house dropping.
Beasts of England said...
She turned me in to a newt!
but, didn't you get better?
Feminism coupled with witchcraft. Which craft more completely discredits the other?
I've read a fair bit of both Rosemary Radford Reuther and Mary Daly. Daly is the more radical. During her time at Boston College, a Jesuit school, she would at times ban men from her classes. Boston College did grant her permanent teaching status, but not a full professorship.
Daly went on to unapologetically reject the entire Christian faith. This is evident in her 1973 Beyond God the Father. She promoted a change in language toward a non-sexist mode (whatever that means).
She was also bad at history. She accused the Church in the first three centuries of employing the Virgin Mary as a way to control women. While this was true later on, there is no evidence for this before about 350 AD.
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