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I don't know about Sorensen's ex, but the other wives were approached by the FBI in connection with a background check. They didn't leak their stories or go to the tabloids, they responded truthfully to questions posed to them by the FBI. Keep this in mind when Trump and Company start calling this a witch hunt. FWIW.
Zoonart
(11,747 posts)is misogynistic. The European witch hunts of the Middle Ages is considered a Gendercide as almost all of those accused and barbecued (among other very nasty deaths), were women. Women who were inconvenient or wouldn't keep their mouths shut, who insisted in being educated. Many were mid-wives who were perceived as a threat to the burgeoning professional medical establishment of men, also they kept birth records that were central to taxation of the peasantry.
Inconvenient women. So when these powerful men accuse women of taking part in a "With HUnt" directed at them... know the history.
Squinch
(50,773 posts)there is a truly great and under-read book called Calaban and the Witch by Maria Federici that looks at its roots.
Her thesis is that the witch trials in Europe coincided with the fencing of the commons. It was a way to divide and confuse the underclass that was rising up against the loss of the commons, setting the male among them against the female.
I have read several books on the subject. I can also recommend "Witchcraze", by Anne Barstow.
I have been doing research for a couple of years for a book I am making notes on. I have another project to finish first.
Thanks for the tip.
Squinch
(50,773 posts)Why is it, do you suppose, that this fascinates us?
Does this sound right to you: we feel in our bones that our culture has hatred for us. This was a time when it was overt, out in the open, and we feel like we can find answers in it about why that hatred exists?
This was available at my library so I requested it. Again, much thanks!
Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)during our own Salem witch trials, there were numerous land transactions that 'coincidentally' favored the trial judges and accusers by seizing plats left to women. Yeah, some of those 'witches' were simply widows who had the temerity to not re-marry.
Squinch
(50,773 posts)though there was a good percentage of men among the accused in Salem, the vast majority of the women were standing in someone's way in terms of an inheritance or property ownership.
eleny
(46,166 posts)I just read every review and comment over at Amazon and it's a must read. The way people talked about it you would think it was 1000 page book. But it's only 288 pages. So it must be power packed on every page. Not available at my library so I'm going to ask that they order it. "Witchcraze" is on the shelf so this one needs to be there, too.
WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)with matriarchal lineages of passing family inheritances. Hindus say if you want to know who your father is you must ask your mother. That is why men insisted on marriage and separating women from each other.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)It wasn't as if that hadn't been the reality for millennia already at the time.
tanyev
(42,356 posts)may have been the one who leaked it to the tabloids.
mascarax
(1,528 posts)And decide SHE is the best candidate?
What does she do there? Whenever something comes up, seems like she and her no-security clearance husband are on vacation.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)and it is a felony to lie to the FBI. They had no choice. Most victims of abuse would rather not air their pain in public. They have nothing to gain by this. I am quite sure they have moved on with their life and would rather not revisit the past.
mcar
(42,206 posts)AllyCat
(16,033 posts)Ligyron
(7,592 posts)"They didn't tell us about this loud enough"!
mascarax
(1,528 posts)And I appreciate them speaking up now when theyve been put in this high profile position.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Why now and not before, I don't know. Unless the FBI leaked it? Was it leaked?
Cha
(295,899 posts)Thank you!