Nicol > Recent Status Updates

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“I want us to see her for what she is: a paradigm for demonizing women, and a slowly evolving cultural mechanism for silencing them, persecuting them, and, when necessary, killing them.”

“This mythos—of the oversexed, baby-slaying, blood-drinking, loudmouthed Monstrous Bitch—is perhaps the oldest and most consistently represented ideology in Western culture.”

“I’ve grown up in a world in which women have been demonized for thousands of years, and in which they have been demonized in particular for three things: their voices, their sexuality, and their relationship to reproduction.”

“In the twenty-first century, we are in peril of losing our autonomy over our bodies; we are in peril of losing our voices.”

“Sexual violence is always also an act of silencing someone’s voice.”

“There is a very real chance that though I was born a human citizen with extensive rights, I will die a semihuman partial citizen with heavily restricted rights.”

“Correlatively, public discourse around women’s rights in general appears to be in a nearly vertical backslide: American politicians are unironically suggesting that women’s proper place is in the home—and only in the home.”

”Lamashtu wasn’t a doctor; she was a guy in a back alley with a coat hanger and some vodka. Long ago, when Lamashtu killed women, fetuses, babies, and children, it was because medical care didn’t exist. Now, it’s because our governments are deciding that women don’t deserve access to that medical care.”

“To control the land, you have to control the women—or, more precisely, you have to control their uteruses. If Patriarchy can’t control the wombs, it’s got to demonize and kill the women who contain them, as well as those women who have the temerity to try to control wombs in a way that Patriarchy doesn’t approve of.”

“the systematic persecution of witches is intimately tied to the consolidation of private property during the same period.”

“The church and state used the public execution of accused witches to inflict abject terror and trauma on helpless young girls, on the brink of losing their own mothers, who were told that their mothers had been too loud, too sexy, or violent toward unborn children.”

“Midwives allowed women to take control of their own reproduction; thus, midwives got rebranded as witches.”

“This idea we have in the twenty-first century that reproductive medicine—including abortion—is new or modern is total bunk. The only thing that’s “new” is that abortion nowadays almost never kills the mother, whereas in premodern times it sometimes did.”

“The witch—the medieval European lamia—was a fictitious cultural construct thousands of years in the making, a construct used solely for the oppression and extermination of women who did not sufficiently conform to Christian patriarchal norms.”

“Indeed, the Christian transformation of the Monstrous Bitch from a demon or sorceress into an everywoman empowered one of the most massive, deliberate, and orchestrated purges of female human life in recorded history.”

“In my view, our best avenue of resistance to the horrific misogyny of our current moment is to better understand the deep, seething past of Patriarchy.”

“Hierarchies of anatomical and cultural advancement in past peoples were CREATED by archaeology, supported by scholars providing ancient skull measurements. This directly fed poisonous notions of competition and racial purity that were foundational in eugenics.”

“… plus the way we interpret things can be tinged with bias. . . we have little idea how they defined their own categories of gender . . . Their social distinctions need not have been binary nor mapped directly onto anatomy.”

Thanks Becky!

Yes!! The return of Michael 🦔

Lindsey and Rose are comic gold together, I hope they cowrite more series.

I forgot how much I hate Sam and how EVERYONE is in love with Jory and Dane to the point where they act ridiculous. 🙄

Are we meant to hate most of the MCs??????