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Re: Calls for UK government to pardon women executed for witchcraft

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Originally Posted by jem View Post
* not entirely women, there were some men, but the majority were women - we might consider the paternalistic bias of the time. But it was what it was. I’d like to think things are different now.
Women are still persecuted for failing to submit to orthodoxy - it’s just the orthodoxy that’s different.

See: Darlington Nurses, Sandie Peggie, Maya Forstater, etc etc etc
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