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Your craft is YOUR craft. It doesn't need to be a copy and paste of other people's practices.

You don't need to be in certain religions.

You don't need to cleanse or even own crystals.

You don't need to believe that your divination tools are alive.

You don't need to use incense. Bells, salt, prayers, etc., can cleanse the same way.

You don't need to believe in astrology.

You don't need to celebrate certain holidays.

You don't need to believe in chakras.

You don't need to use candles in every single spell. There are other types of magic you can do.

Many of them are vegan. Many have survived domestic abuse and sexual assault. For many of them, this is their first-ever paid job after a life of domestic servitude in marriage. They're the only armed female anti-poaching group currently active. They've arrested hundreds of poachers just since 2017.

she could literally be the worst woman in the world, but if she were male, you wouldn’t have called her a bitch. there is no “i don’t normally call women this but she’s being a bitch”. you wanted to target and insult her femaleness specifically. her sex is inherently linked with your insult. that makes you misogynistic, flinging an insult based on someone’s sex.

also, if you call a man a bitch, you are degrading him on the basis of being comparable to a woman. it implies to be [female-aimed slur] is particularly degrading. you are also a misogynist for that.