Dude, who even knows.
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God, was anyone else in adolescence during the 90s Wicca vogue, when kids would use 1970s feminist religious reconstructionism as their idiom for being chuuni?
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What was even going on in the late 90′s, like even before the wizard boy books, where this small but noticeable slice of American culture was suddenly like “we still hate lots of other people for no reason but we have GOT to teach kids that witches are unfairly persecuted by society” like it was even a critical plot point of a whole Scooby Doo movie? It’s like the media suddenly wanted me as a millenial child to be angrier about a couple dozen ergot-fueled witch trials 300 years ago than basically anything else to ever happen or still happen in the whole world.
Internalization of the ‘70s new age spiritual explosion being followed by an '80s Christian reassertion. Add in weird processing of second-wave feminism and you get Wicca.
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hey remember the 90s when the Æ character was making a comeback?
hey remember the 90s with its Wicca boom and its ridiculous “burning times” myth that was kind of appropriating the whole “R2P” thing that genocide was now our master narrative for legitimizing geopolitics
BUT ALSO clearly a sublimation of the way the ‘80s backlash cut off the '70s liberatory momentum?
good times, good times
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Well, as bougie hobby religions go, Latin Mass Catholicism has more to work with than Wicca.