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Katsuro asked this question about The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2):

Is it just me, or does it seem like Amanda Lovelace doesn't actually know much about the Salem trials? She mentions them in the poem at page 129, and, well, it's like she doesn't know that 30% of the people executed at Salem were men and the people who started it all were women. What I'm getting at is, doesn't this feel sorta like either history revisionism or guesswork on her part?

Ari She sees what she wants to see through misandry-colored glasses. She takes the parts of reality that fit her transmedicalist radical feminist worldvie…moreShe sees what she wants to see through misandry-colored glasses. She takes the parts of reality that fit her transmedicalist radical feminist worldview and warps the rest. You're absolutely right. Although I will say it was no coincidence the first victims of the Trials were a mentally ill girl, a woman who inherited property, and a Black woman.(less)

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