The with trials had absolutely nothing to do with the accused...

The Puritans love to say "we came to America to flee persecution" but the truth is they came to America because other Europeans wouldn't let them do shit like burn women at the stakes.

They were far right religious extremists, and they came to America in the hopes they could become the majority and no one would be able to stop them.

Even if every single woman did exactly what the far right religious extremists wanted, they'd still have burnt women at the stake.

Because that's what almost every group of far right religious extremists want to do. They can't use racism as a boogeyman because they weren't ethnically diverse, so they put men against women. Most men feel better about being controlled by religion because they control "their" women, and being raised in don't see the red flags.

Some women feel better either because they secured a "good" man, or because they're above their own children in the pecking order.

Like...

There's a reason every far right religion hates women, and trying to explain what made some women a target for a witch trialis just like modern day blaming of rape victims because of how they were dressed or where they were.

At the end of the day it was going to happen to some woman, and telling women to act differently just plays musical chair with the target. At the end of the day, someone's still set on fire.

There's good intentions in the article, but it completely misses that larger point.