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He has a meeting with Warhorse every year at this point I think. It already happened last year.
 

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No, I think he's a regular at the convention he's currently attending and that happens to be in the vicinity of Warhorse.
 
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Sinder Velvin said:
While reading old interviews, I finally found the key to understanding Sawyer.

It was lying in plain sight back when no one knew who he was, and then it was forgotten because it was on a website that stopped existing after the year 2000.

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What amazes me is that Sawyer was just as cringe 30 years ago. I thought he was just a man broken by time, but apparently that was giving him too much credit.
 
Old Hans

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Sinder Velvin said:
While reading old interviews, I finally found the key to understanding Sawyer.

It was lying in plain sight back when no one knew who he was, and then it was forgotten because it was on a website that stopped existing after the year 2000.

Behold...

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Source.
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his B.A. studies are like a bunch of skills you randomly pick in an rpg, and you're like "I bet this demonology will come in handy"
 
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Customer Review: Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts
J.E. Sawyer
2.0 out of 5 stars an insult to those who suffered
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2000
As others have written, Barstow's book lazily glosses over exceptions to her theory of witch-hunting as woman-hunting. I find this book to be disappointing on an academic level and a personal level. The most common figure one will find in this book lies in the quantitative data presented at the back of the book -- 75%. According to Barstow's sources, around 75%-80% of the people tried and killed were witches. Was there a bias against women? Certainly. Much like the bias against women that made them likely to be mystics of affective piety (something which few men ever were declared). Was witch-hunting woman-hunting? No way. Witch-hunting crossed gender lines, class lines, and religious lines. If witch-hunting were woman-hunting, we should see 100% listed for female prosecutions and executions across the board. To claim otherwise is to cheapen the deaths of thousands of men in a way that, quite frankly, disgusts me. In simple terms, Barstow seems to be unwilling to do what talented academics like Ginzburg demand that we do -- discriminate on the basis of microhistory. If you want to get a good grasp on witch-hunting, read Kors & Peters' compilation of primary source materials ("Witchcraft in Europe,") Edward Peters' "Inquisition," Joseph Klaits' "Servants of Satan," Wunderli's "The Drummer of Niklashausen," Hsia's "Myth of Ritual Murder," Ginzburg's "The Night Battles" and any other book that treats the subject with respect.
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I always got the impression (never having taken one in university myself) that a university ‘Gender Studies’ course back then was, for a guy like Sawyer used to be, thought of as a way to demonstrate open-mindedness, interest in the feminine perspective and an even-handed attitude. It is interesting and probably no accident how those courses changed and he somehow managed to keep pace with them long after he’d left.
 
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Hace El Oso said:
I always got the impression (never having taken one in university myself) that a university ‘Gender Studies’ course back then was, for a guy like Sawyer used to be, thought of as a way to demonstrate open-mindedness, interest in the feminine perspective and an even-handed attitude. It is interesting and probably no accident how those courses changed and he somehow managed to keep pace with them long after he’d left.
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If he was taking a class as a way to demonstrate some part of his own ego as a progressive social ploy, then he was always the type of person who wanted attention for the same reason. Which explains why he remains among the cult.
 
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