Naw, men are largely indifferent to others as long as other people don't involve themselves with his life. It's women who love gossip and drama and hate each other.
Lmao the biggest gossips I've ever met were all men. But that's anecdotal evidence and besides the point.
Whatever your experience is with men or women, the meme is about a real historical period. Y'know, stuff that we have records of. So saying "well in my experience men don't care" – they clearly did care at that time.
You are absolutely right. "The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft.'
@jethro_bob That's right, what you didn't mention was that the little girls were coerced by a priest, who was one of the girls' father, to give a false testimony against women who were deemed "undesirables" by the Church – namely a mentally ill pregnant woman, an old woman, and a foreign woman. It literally would've taken you an extra two or three minutes to read a few more paragraphs about it but you decided to stop when you were able to cherrypick something that fit your worldview. (And I don't even have to mention the many cases in Europe...) But men are logic over emotion, right? Lmfaoooooo
@funkmasterrex Ahhhh yes, accusing and executing women for the lolz. Gottem! (Not saying anything against men btw, society is just weird like that. Our monkey brains really do think of the most fucked up shit sometimes.)
...Are you really arguing that we should blame the Salem witch trials on little children? And furthermore use them as an example representative of all women?
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Well, in the 17th century women who did NOT do what they were told "often" had to expect quite the severe consequences. Like ending up being accused to be a witch. And - surprise! - gaslighting has happened way, way before there was actual gaslighting on the streets.
Life expectancy in the 1800s was 39 years at best. those :teenagers were equivalent to todays middle aged people. If you didn't start a family by age 20 you were to old to watch them grow up. History show these then adult women found the book and got the whole thing started on their own, the men got involved and joined in later.
Hmmm yeah you have a point. If we ignore the religious, historical, sociological, psychological, biological, economic, political and cultural context, and basically everything else apart from the fact that the accusers in one of the hundreds of trials happened to be girls, it really is just about women being bitches to each other! Damn I've never thought of it that way. Must be because of my silly woman brain, always taking into account context and nuance and shit.
Sarcasm aside, witch hunts in Europe were started by the Catholic church, whom the American Puritans got "inspired" by in their trials. Both organizations are headed by men, with women holding very little authority, if any at all. If you have evidence to the contrary, I'd like to see it cited, because everything I found says the exact opposite of what you said. Also no idea what you mean by "the book". Only the Malleus Maleficarum comes to mind. Which was written by a dude.
And it's totally fine to say that it's generally that way in your experience, I was just uneasy about Bob implying it's somehow inherent since we have very clear historical (and in my personal experience, current) evidence to the contrary.
I also feel like the whole thing could technically be disproved by the existence of male paparazzi, haha.
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Whatever your experience is with men or women, the meme is about a real historical period. Y'know, stuff that we have records of. So saying "well in my experience men don't care" – they clearly did care at that time.
@funkmasterrex Ahhhh yes, accusing and executing women for the lolz. Gottem! (Not saying anything against men btw, society is just weird like that. Our monkey brains really do think of the most fucked up shit sometimes.)
Sarcasm aside, witch hunts in Europe were started by the Catholic church, whom the American Puritans got "inspired" by in their trials. Both organizations are headed by men, with women holding very little authority, if any at all. If you have evidence to the contrary, I'd like to see it cited, because everything I found says the exact opposite of what you said. Also no idea what you mean by "the book". Only the Malleus Maleficarum comes to mind. Which was written by a dude.
I also feel like the whole thing could technically be disproved by the existence of male paparazzi, haha.