Sex Trouble: Yes, Feminists DO ‘Practice Witchcraft … and Become Lesbians’

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“[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
— Pat Robertson, 1992

Today the first edition of my book Sex Trouble: Essays on Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature is available for purchase from Amazon — just in time for CPAC — and by happy coincidence, another journalist has recently confirmed what I have been telling you guys for months: Every single word of that quote is true.

All any researcher has to do is to Google “Dianic Wicca” or “Goddess Movement” to learn all they need to know about this, but I went beyond that; I’ve already read five books about neopagan witchcraft and especially about the feminist witch cult known as “Reclaiming.”

The link between feminism, lesbianism and — yes, believe it or not — witchcraft is familiar territory for those who have been reading the “Sex Trouble” series here for the past seven months, but it was news to Guardian columnist Sady Doyle:

Season of the witch: why young women
are flocking to the ancient craft
Rapper Azealia Banks brought witchcraft back into the mainstream by tweeting ‘I’m really a witch’. But women in the US have been harnessing its power for decades as a ‘spiritual but not religious’ way to express feminist ambitions

. . .Witchcraft — and the embrace of “magical” practices, like reading tarot cards — has recently experienced a resurgence of sorts among young, creative, politically engaged women.
This is largely reflected in niche corners of US pop culture: 2013’s American Horror Story: Coven, in which witchcraft stood in for girl power, was the most popular American Horror Story season ever. A popular Tumblr blog, Charmcore, purports to be run by three witch sisters; it gives sarcastic “magical” advice and praise of the female celebrities it deems to be “obvious witches”. On the more serious side, teen sensation Rookie magazine has published tarot tutorials along with more standard-issue feminist and fashion advice, and Autostraddle, a popular left-leaning blog for young queer women, has an in-house tarot columnist. Speaking of which, those tarot cards are available in trendy Brooklyn knickknack shops and Urban Outfitters, as well as new age stores. And these days, no one thinks there’s anything weird about herbal medicine and other potions. . . .
“To reclaim the word witch is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful,” wrote Starhawk, in her seminal 1979 book The Spiral Dance. “To be a witch is to identify with 9 million victims of bigotry and hatred and to take responsibility for shaping a world in which prejudice claims no more victims.”
Today, The Spiral Dance is in its third edition, and has sold over 300,000 copies. It is many people’s first introduction to Wicca, the earth-based spiritual movement that was created in the 1950s and has come to be a recognized religion around the world. It is also one of the most well known and comprehensive texts from a very particular moment in feminist history which until recently was largely unfashionable: the “women’s spirituality” movement, in which women radically rewrote existing religions, or simply made their own to be in line with the goals of women’s liberation.

Doyle quotes Autostraddle’s lesbian tarot columnist talking about “women who were persecuted in the past — wise women, witches, women who practiced that kind of ‘kitchen table’ healing that wasn’t part of the patriarchal progression of medicine.” This feminist myth of medieval witches as pagan proto-feminists persecuted by religious patriarchy was promoted in the 1970s by radical lesbians Mary Daly and Andrea Dworkin. As I explain in Sex Trouble, “These claims have since been debunked by legitimate historians, including the British professor Ronald Hutton, whose 1999 book The Triumph of the Moon is arguably the definitive history of modern witchcraft.”

Let me make two points about my methods as a journalist:

  1. I never underestimate the intelligence of my readers. It is a common mistake of journalists to think they are endowed with special wisdom, so that they must explain everything to readers who are presumed to be too stupid to figure things out on their own. Such an arrogant attitude insults the reader. Besides, who wants a readership of dimwit ignoramuses? Daily Kos?
  2. In the Internet age, every reader is their own fact-checker. You can use Google the same as me. If I were to start just making stuff up like a Rolling Stone reporter, my readers would bust me in a heartbeat. There’s no point trying to deceive or mislead readers. Even if I wanted to lie to you, I couldn’t get away with it. My job is to find the truth and write the truth, and if it weren’t for the relationship of trust that has been developed with regular readers here in the past seven years, I wouldn’t be doing this.

Nobody has a monopoly on the facts, so I encourage readers to do their own research. So many of the stories I tell here begin with somebody in the comments throwing in a link, or a Twitter follower tipping me off to a story. And this whole crazy radical feminist trip really began when one of my friendly readers called my attention to this crazy sentence:

“No woman is heterosexual.”

As I explain in the concluding chapter of Sex Trouble:

That four-word sentence sent me off on an investigation of her sources, especially including Professor Dee Graham, whose 1994 book Loving to Survive theorized female heterosexuality as a response to male-inflicted “sexual terror,” akin to post-traumatic stress syndrome. Understanding this claim in turn required me to examine the sources cited in Graham’s bibliography, including lesbian feminists like Marilyn Frye, Adrienne Rich, Mary Daly, Audre Lorde and Charlotte Bunch. Graham even managed to work in a citation to “Starhawk” (neé Miriam Simos), the lesbian feminist who was the founding high priestess of a California-based pagan witchcraft cult known as Reclaiming. From such dubious sources Graham had propounded her theory of sexuality, based in a view of men as violent oppressors and women as victims suffering under tyrannical male supremacy.

Still more, from the same concluding chapter:

In 1980, Australian feminist Denise Thompson described how “countless numbers of lesbians” joined the feminist movement because it offered them “the possibility of a cultural community of women whose primary commitment was to other women rather than to men.” Furthermore, Thompson added, the rise of the feminist movement produced a “mass exodus of feminist women from the confining structures of heterosexuality” in such numbers as to raise questions about “the institution of heterosexuality in the consciousness of those feminists who, for whatever reason, chose not to change their sexual orientation.” And why shouldn’t this have been the expected result?
Women “changed their sexual/social orientation from men to women,” Thompson explained, “in response to the feminist political critique of their personal situations of social subordination.” If the personal is political (as feminists say) and if women’s relationships with men are “confining structures” of “social subordination,” why would any feminist be heterosexual?

You can buy Sex Trouble now at Amazon and read the whole thing, which brings the whole thing full circle back around to Starhawk, Dianic Wicca and the “Goddess Movement.” All of this may seem like kooky fringe stuff to some readers, but you’re not stupid. Do you really think an experienced political reporter would have spent so many months on this subject just for the fun of it? Oh, sure, it’s a lot of fun to point and laugh at these kooks and weirdos, but perhaps you’ve forgotten how this began with “The Long Shadow of the Lavender Menace.” Perhaps you didn’t recognize the significance of all those names of radical lesbians who joined the Women’s Liberation movement in the 1970s. I did.

This story isn’t going to go away, my friends. Republican strategists never had a motive to go that deep in their opposition research files in 2008, because Obama destroyed Hillary in the Democrat primaries. Yet the smart money now says Hillary is a near-certainty for the 2016 nomination; she seems to have no serious Democrat opponent. The connections between Hillary Clinton and Charlotte Bunch (who has never recanted her 1972 lesbian manifesto) and the 1995 Beijing women’s conference? Yeah, that subject is likely to become very interesting to a lot of people if and when Hillary gets the Democrat presidential nomination. Trust me on this. The prophetic omens are clear.

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools . . . For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature . . .”
— Romans 1:22, 26 (KJV)

This special 120-page first edition of Sex Trouble is, of course, really a preview of the larger work that I now expect to finish by this fall. My original plan was to have the whole thing wrapped up months ago, but then I got swept up in the whirlpool of this radical madness and realized there was so much to synthesize and explain that there was no way I could do it in a hurry. Rather than force readers to wait another six months, however, I decided to put together this first edition for the loyal readers who have done so much already support this project.

Keep me in your prayers as I continue toiling away at this. Please buy my book, help promote it to others and don’t forget the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

 

 

161 comments

  1. That must be a false flag comment. Obviously those of us who would want to read such a book are notorious book burners. Ergo, we must have have (mostly) empty bookshelves.

    Stands to reason.

  4. We’re all like cans in a kidney store over this news!

    I’m assuming the paperback shovels more shekels into Stacy’s account, so I’ll order that version, but I’ll get a kindle version as well.

  10. I’m waiting for the European Union to put up a 100 meter tall shrine in Metz to the 19 kabillion witches torched in the greatest holocaust in human history. It can be a statue of Andrea Dworking covered in gold leaf and with flying buttresses that reach to England.

  14. I’ve got two books on Amazon, so I’m speaking from experience here.

    Amazon’s system takes time (sometimes days) to link a Kindle and paperback version (in this case, Createspace) of a book. If the title is as much as one character different, it /never/ links them, and the author or publisher (our gracious host in this case) needs to submit a request to get the two linked together.

  15. RSM – you may want to adjust the pricing on the Kindle version. If you’re looking for pure sales numbers, regardless of profit, you should probably set it at $0.99; assuming you’re also attempting to recoup some costs involved with the time invested on this (not to mention the tomes of crazy you’ve poured through), you should set it at $2.99 so you get the 70% royalty rate with KDP instead of the 35% you’re getting at $1.99.

  17. Not to worry – it’s the Derp Ones you have to watch out for. I believe that we may be reaching Peak Stupid.

  18. Lovecraft begins where strange leaves off.

    Although I have always suspected that the models for the Whateley family were the Kennedys.

  20. Years ago I read a joke about a medical alert bracelet saying “I am a Christian Scientist. If injured, please take me to the nearest Reading Room.”

  22. So how does one deal with the essential problem in being a witch?

    I refer to the inability of anybody to actually, you know, do witchy stuff. All that time prancing naked beneath a full moon burning black candles and buying eye of newt online, and no, er, manifestations or transmogrifications or rains of blood? No opponents turning into frogs, no talking cats hanging around, no flying brooms? Twitch your nose and not only no “dinkle dinkle dinkle” sound, but… nothing at all? Can’t blink a pile of gold into existence, can’t even dowse for water?

    Doesn’t it eventually wear a little thin, pretending to be a witch and not having anything to show for it? In fact, doing all that witch stuff and still being ugly, fat and stupid?

    Me, I’d get depressed after a while and find another hobby. Build a crystal radio set or get some X-ray specs or something like that from the back pages of old comic books. Buy Charles Atlas’ program and kick some sand back in the bullies’ faces.

  23. That’s not John Cleese, that’s obviously Marie Harf.

    Although… wait a minute. Has anybody ever seen Marie Harf and John Cleese together?

  34. Yes, that reminds me of the aphorism “It’s impossible to make a fool proof system. Fools are just too ingenious.”

  35. Of course there is. She laid the intellectual groundwork inspiring the OWS movem… um, she laid the intell- er, what I mean is, ummmm…

    Okay, I’ll get back to you, okay?

  38. I must ask… Stevie Nicks—witch or no? I’d consider your opinion the definitive answer to this controversy!

    I’m sure that these younger tarts on the scene lately (Lorde, Taylor Momsen, etc.) are wannabe’s or poseurs, but I’m still not certain about Stevie…

  40. I’ve always wanted to dance naked around a bonfire under a full moon. Not for any reason having to do with witchcraft or anything supernatural, just because.

  41. Gender feminists don’t actually produce anything. Their magic power is to find way to complain about stuff no one ever thought of.

  43. How about witchy car mechanics? That’d be like going to a gender feminist oil change shop. Bitch for 20 minutes and leave.

  45. When you said ‘flying’ the first thing that came to mind was ‘flying witches on brooms’ It could have Andrea Dworkin held up on a seashell like Venus, but with four witches on brooms to hold up the seashell.

  46. As per Champions, a superhero RPG, and my memory…..

    Power: Whine and Complain: Area Effect (Radius) +1; Requires Sound (cannot be done in a vacuum or underwater, etc.) -1/4; 5d6 END (Endurance) Drain.

    The Daemon summoned by Professor WomynPower began to speak to the small room of normal humans. All were effected as the room was filled and locked, so a targetting roll is unneccessary. 5d6, or five six-sided dice does an average of 17-18 damage. Multiply by two as END is half price.for 35 Endurance loss.

    Since the avg. human has 20 END, you’re leaving them gaping for breath, and still have 15 more points to go to their STUN which is 20, so they have five left over.

    The whole room is on the floor, weeping, gasping for breath, and nearly knocked unconscious.

    /geek out

  50. Wicca is more about the image than anything else. That is why if there were no TV or film and SciFi books there would be no Wicca

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