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Which witches?
Maybe “gynocide” wasn’t so totally gynocidal: The victims of the witch hunt history would rather forget. Of the 60,000 or so persons executed for witchcraft in Europe between 1450 and 1750, perhaps 12-20,000 were men. In some regions, such as Burgundy, Normandy and Iceland, men were a majority of those accused. Those aren’t facts the dominant feminist school of witch history has latched on to, but a couple of English historians have finally written a book about them. The importance of witches to feminists and witch hunts to liberals makes the book — oddly — something of an event. Posted by Jim Kalb at April 02, 2003 04:25 PM | Send Comments
oh dear. “gynocide”, my friend, would mean the murder of many vaginas. i believe you are referring to “genocide”. Posted by: abby on April 2, 2003 9:18 PMAbby, the Greek-derived root, “gyn(-e, -os, -ous, -y, etc.) is used in compound words or combining forms to mean “woman” or “women-related.” It may also be used in combining forms that refer in some way to the female reproductive organs. Posted by: Unadorned on April 2, 2003 10:06 PMeither way, he’s incorrect, and i apologize for not being as precise as i should have been. nonetheless there is much more of a discrepancy in the error of jim kalb between what he said and what i can only guess he meant. Posted by: abby on April 6, 2003 10:59 PM |