witchcraft, crazy witchcraft

[kleenexwoman]

I used to think I was weird because I wanted to be a witch when I was thirteen. Recently, people have told me that no, most girls go through this phase at some point in their adolescence. (I could ramble about the psychology behind this, but I think that it should be pretty obvious if you are a girl or know girls or have read books about them.)
Do all girls think this makes them weird? Why isn't this some sort of girly bonding thing?

"Hey, Heather, were you into witchcraft too when you were, like, in middle school?"
"Oh my gawd, I totally was! I went around, like, blighting crops and cursing cows to not give milk!"
"I put the pox on people! Oh, man, we were such dorks!"

Comments

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I think girls get into it because witchcraft is basically a sneaky, sexy, subtle, girly way of getting power, and they aren't encouraged to play sports or take up the guitar the way boys are.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Well, I definitely wasn't into sports. (I played floor hockey in elementary school and was pretty good at it, but I flunked outta Little League when I was nine, and was completely worthless at every kind of athletics except tennis, badminton, biking, and masturbation when I was a teenager.) I suppose I tried to make my own kind of electric magic out of my musical interests (played keyboards as well as guitar, and did some really interesting amateur multitracking in a little studio I had set up in the basement with two tape recorders and some echo arrangements). It gave me something to do so I didn't go insane from a total lack of female companionship.