Just finished to the whole BBC Witch yesterday and will definitely go onto pilgrimage in Scotland. Starting with the witches' well in Edinburgh in the next few days!
I commend you for the cautionary message in your essay: "And women, like men, make stuff up. [...] Let's not make another false idol."
There is the recent case in Australia of a man who's been vilified through the pro-active engagement of certain journalists in the mainstream media with the meToo movement. The case -- it's an allegation of rape -- went to trial in the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. The trial ended up being abandoned with no prospect of a retrial. A subsequent inquiry into the proceedings - the Sofronoff Inquiry - made some interesting findings as to what went wrong. The affair is too complex for me to unpack it here. My point is this: neither the accused nor the complainant was afforded justice under Australia's formally recognised system of law. Trial by media prevailed.
I hope that, in future, care will be exercised in embracing the covens' ways of knowing.
Just finished to the whole BBC Witch yesterday and will definitely go onto pilgrimage in Scotland. Starting with the witches' well in Edinburgh in the next few days!
I commend you for the cautionary message in your essay: "And women, like men, make stuff up. [...] Let's not make another false idol."
There is the recent case in Australia of a man who's been vilified through the pro-active engagement of certain journalists in the mainstream media with the meToo movement. The case -- it's an allegation of rape -- went to trial in the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. The trial ended up being abandoned with no prospect of a retrial. A subsequent inquiry into the proceedings - the Sofronoff Inquiry - made some interesting findings as to what went wrong. The affair is too complex for me to unpack it here. My point is this: neither the accused nor the complainant was afforded justice under Australia's formally recognised system of law. Trial by media prevailed.
I hope that, in future, care will be exercised in embracing the covens' ways of knowing.