listen i have no real attachment to this phrase but if you can’t understand that it’s a fucking metaphor you’re the dumb one
there is a long history in feminism of association with the witch as a powerful outsider, it is not and has never meant to be wholly historically accurate more in the sense of the way women have been treated when they dared to step outside their roles, that phrase means the opposite of what you’re implying it means patriarchy will never be able to murder and subdue every woman who fights against it, this is a pretty basic sentiment
but as usual you people seem to think women are too fucking stupid to use a metaphor and chomp at the bit to explain to us why we are wrong,, no one uses it thinks witches are real or anyone murdered for witchcraft deserved it like what are you actually talking about? go outside, for $1 name a woman
remember according to tumblr dot edu no women have EVER faced misogyny, a fake form of oppression that is thousand of years old and exists globally because it makes them feel bad about their favourite white man :(
I don’t know how to put this without sounding patronising, but I couldn’t see this point in the notes anywhere: In Britain at least, “We are the daughters of the witches you couldn’t burn” is a TERF slogan. So that’s why people are pushing back against it so much.
