Jinkx Monsoon
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Do you know another English word?
Have you heard piss flaps?
Well, like the pointed hats, right?
That was just what female brewers...
like ale brewers wore in the marketplace so you could find them.
So they get labeled as a witch, take out the brewing competition.
Midwives were competition for male doctors.
So they took out the midwives by saying they're witches who will eat your babies.
It was all taking out the competition.
Medicinal healers, she'll curse you, you know.
relabeling all of these women who were just doing the same things that men were doing in the kind of like ancestral way they were taught.
It all got rebranded.
So witch is something that got put on these women.
And I think when modern witches claim the title witch, it's in honor of all of the women who were persecuted for,
For just having a talent that threatened men.
I don't just say piss flaps.
You don't get that from men that often.