Which Witches?

S J Ashworth
2 min readJul 25, 2022

There’s a phrase the Gender Critical crowd like to use. You can find it emblazoned on T-shirts, notebooks, badges, you name it.

“We are the (grand)daughters of the witches you couldn’t burn.”

So…

Do they mean the daughters of the far greater majority who were hung, then? What about the daughters of the witches who were burned? Where’s the support and respect for them? Do TERFs not care about those the patriarchy makes into scapegoats, and prefer instead those who survived by denying their truth?

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S J Ashworth

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