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Quote:“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.” ― Neil Gaiman
If Mr Gaiman had taken the trouble to read The Malleus Maleficarum, written by men, he would know that witches work in all modes of attire and, increasingly, with a wide variety of accoutrements.
At the time that book was written it was a vital state interest to discourage witches. Survival vital.
Anybody who refers to the persecution of witches in the middle-ages as a method of discrediting Christianity now is being anachronistic and also underestimating his audience. And History.
Most books on witches are written to exploit a prurient interest in perversion and if they are mainly by men it is simply because men are better at it and judged to be so by the buyers. As soon as women are better at it in the view of the buyers most books on the subject will be written by women.
Even a novice capitalist would see that Mr Gaiman has insulted women by drawing attention to their inability to compete with men at shifting flattened out wood-pulp with ink inserts off the shelves.
His error is to think himself the judge and not the market.
Does "most books" mean most publications or most copies?
I suppose women might be inhibited from the more lurid descriptions of witches because they make their ears go bright red.
And can Mr Gaiman identify a book on witches and witchcraft?
