I dressed up as a witch hunter for Halloween

So this woman I follow on TikTok definitely a right winger. I'm a lefty and also wiccan. She posted a video of herself and her husband at a Halloween party. She's dressed as a witch, him as a witch hunter. The comments were all part of the "Witches versus patriarchy" trend. I know it's a joke and I don't think I was actually being targeted, but I felt like I'd been punched in the gut. <br><br>What's your take on the witches versus patriarchy trend?<br><br>I'm going to assume that the people participating in the joke are simply pretending to be witches and have no actual connection to witchcraft or paganism. <br><br>While I'm not mad at someone I don't even know for being political, I feel like this trend is proof that people don't take witches seriously. It reduces the real practice of witchcraft and paganism to "here's a fun little aesthetic for you to get off of". <br><br>It perpetuates misinformation. They're not actually witches, they have no idea what witchcraft is actually about and they're so confident in their own ability to speak over someone else. <br><br>I also find it gross that they're using witchcraft to mock feminism. It's really shitty to make fun of women who actually practice witchcraft, especially since a lot of women who don't practice witchcraft use it as a way of connecting with their own femininity. <br><br>I personally am somewhere between upset and ambivalent. I don't care enough to get angry and I think this trend will die down soon enough.