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pegasus • today at 9:07 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

This is a terrible article, both poorly argued and ideologically biased. The other story presented, about a peasant named Peter Stubbe who turns into a werewolf undermines its central premise, tying the phenomenon of imagined werewolfs to certain feminist ideas, or at least shows them to not be gender-specific in any meaningful way. Peter was said to have especially preyed on women. He was a "bad guy" in the same way that the she-werewolves were "bad girls". Plus it's his story which includes, as presented, accusations of sexual (shall we say) misbehaviour, so whence the conclusion at the end?...