• blunderworld@lemmy.ca
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    24 hours ago

    In the interest of historical accuracy, ‘they’ burned men and women as witches. Notably, in Iceland nearly everyone executed as a witch was male.

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        14 hours ago

        Oh no, that’s where the saying “I’d be hard pressed to do —“ came from, isn’t it… (not that specific event but the uh… method?)

        People are horrible. Colloquialisms are (usually) horrible.

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      22 hours ago

      Thanks for pointing out the one exceptional case where women didn’t comprise the majority of people murdered. That really helps!

      🙄

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        22 hours ago

        It’s really just something that I learned recently and thought was interesting, which happened to be relevant to this post.

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          17 hours ago

          Just in the interests of everyone getting along, I think you should have opened with that context. Your first post sounds like you’re arguing that women weren’t oppressed or something. It was interesting to read about though, and I’m glad you shared it.

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      23 hours ago

      An entire ideological movement forming around a widely believed historical inaccuracy?

      I think that’s called a religion.