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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.