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Can't get ahead at work? Don't trust other women? Blame the witch hunts! Psychotherapist claims women hold back due to inherited 'self-destructive' traits like 'a fear of being heard' that ancestors needed to survive
Daily Mail ^ | Jessica Green

Posted on 01/09/2022 1:50:54 PM PST by nickcarraway

A psychotherapist has claimed the trauma suffered by ancestors in the European witch hunts has harmed today's generation of women.

Cali White, from West Sussex, insists women have inherited 'self-destructive' behaviours like a 'deep-rooted mistrust' of other females and a 'fear of being heard or seen' after their forebears had to adopt the traits to survive the witch hunts.

During the Early Modern era - 1450 to 1750 - tens of thousands of women were executed as 'witches' across the continent.

Cali is a lead curator of an exhibition I am Witch - Tales from the Roundhouse, which is to be held at The Storey in Lancaster throughout January, and will explore claims that the witch trials left a 'wound in our collective psyche which still affects us today'.

She believes that the survival strategies of people's ancestors over 25 generations ago are now entrenched beliefs and behaviours that 'wreak havoc with our own health and well-being and can be extremely self-destructive'.

Recent studies have revealed that traumatic events can alter a person’s genetic make-up, meaning the effects can be carried through generations.

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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“The general consensus among historians is more like 12K-15K killed. Of those, 70% were women. Mostly widows, elderly, poor.”

Well, they shouldn’t have built gingerbread houses just so they could attract and then eat children.


61 posted on 01/09/2022 5:32:06 PM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: 3RIVRS

That’s a fact. They are vicious, vile creatures who can not stand someone being happy. Full of jealousy, they will work overtime to find something, anything to destroy another woman they are jealous of.


62 posted on 01/09/2022 6:18:34 PM PST by WWG1WWA (Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden )
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
A psychotherapist has claimed the trauma suffered by ancestors in the European witch hunts has harmed today's generation of women.
IOW, she's a demagogue, as well as being stupid and delusional.

63 posted on 01/09/2022 7:12:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: nickcarraway

Like women back at the time of witch trials, women today need to avoid the Toxoplasma Gondii in cat stool because it makes them crazier than usual.


64 posted on 01/09/2022 8:48:05 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: ClearCase_guy
You've outlined it reasonably well, but missed another part of the reason.

Women are more likely to select jobs that fit their schedule, have benefits other than pay. shorter commute times and the like.

In general, women will trade higher pay for these types of perks and men will trade these type of perks for higher pay.

My daughter has a college degree and could drive an hour or so each way to get higher pay than she currently makes at a grocery chain picking orders where she can drive 10 minutes, work hours of her choice and not have to hire a baby sitter.

Is the job ideal? Of course not. But it is a calculated choice that she makes.

65 posted on 01/10/2022 6:49:39 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: nickcarraway

During the Early Modern era - 1450 to 1750 - tens of thousands of women were executed as ‘witches’ across the continent.


So, a genetically insignificant number.


66 posted on 01/13/2022 3:24:02 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Vigilanteman; ClearCase_guy

Women are far less likely to relocate for a job, then men. Maybe, immediately after they graduate college. Men may not locate if they have children in high school, but in general are much more likely to be open to relocation. But if they can’t relocate, they can be open to 80% - 100% travel. Fewer women are open to that much travel, and more women are open to no travel, than men.


67 posted on 01/13/2022 3:34:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
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