• paultimate14@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days ago

      And when men didn’t put it in a pill they called it “snake oil” or “alchemy”.

      I normally consider Lady Butterfly to be one of the better posters on Lemmy, but this meme is a whiff.

      Edit: Upon doing some more digging I had forgotten that the term “witch” was gender-neutral in Europe prior to colonization. Even in the Salem witch trials, about a quarter of the “witches” persecuted were men. You could also look at the uneducated masses who demonized modern, scientifically-based doctors during the Covid-19 pandemic, like Dr Fauci in the US. And this meme also erases the historical women of medicine, from ancient and near-mythological figures like Metrodora to better-documented women like Hildegard of Bingen.

  • Thorry@feddit.orgEnglish
    19·
    15 days ago

    Yeah I’ve have had encounters people who were super anti-chemicals, it had to be all natural all the time. Not only are they ignoring that literally every thing ever is made of chemicals and just because it’s natural, doesn’t mean it’s good for you. But these people also had all of those granny says recipes to do all sorts of stuff, like in the olden days we had this secret knowledge to for example clean stuff, all without any chemicals. Most of these recipes involved stuff like baking soda or vinegar for example, like bitch please you are literally doing chemistry.