![]() ![]() Hale may no longer be a household name, but his beliefs have a long and sordid history of influence on some of our most shamefully misogynist legislation. ![]() In addition to the alarming disregard this document shows for protecting the rights of anyone who’s not a straight white cis man, it is notable for its citations of a 17th-century English judge named Sir Matthew Hale. I was reminded of it again recently when the draft of Samuel Alito’s opinion to overturn Roe v. ![]() Search on Etsy and you’ll find it splashed across tee shirts, bumper stickers, and coffee mugs. Around the time that Donald Trump was elected president in late 2016, a phrase began circulating periodically on my social media feeds: “We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn’t burn.” This pithy rejoinder to patriarchal overreach was taken from a 2015 Tish Thawer novel but has since taken on a life of its own. ![]()
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