Witches, Bitches, and Hoes: The Long Con Grift, and the Weaponization of Female Archetypes to Steal Women's Labor and Sovereignty

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Authors: Adeline Violas
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Abstract

Historically and contemporarily, derogatory labels applied to women are analyzed primarily as cultural artifacts of passive misogyny. This paper challenges that paradigm by introducing a macroeconomic taxonomy of extraction. Utilizing an anthropological and sociological framework, this analysis argues that the patriarchal nuclear family operates as a microeconomic hostage situation structurally reliant on the uncompensated "derivative dependency" of female labor. To maintain this engine, specific linguistic designations—the Witch, the Hoe, and the Bitch—function as active, structural technologies designed to manufacture the social permission necessary to expropriate female capital. This paper traces an evolutionary model of theft across distinct economic sectors: the criminalization of intellectual property (the Witch), the commodification of bodily autonomy and reproductive labor (the Hoe), and the pathologization of administrative and organizational authority (the Bitch). Furthermore, this framework reframes the modern digital ‘manosphere’ not as fringe radicalization, but as an "aggrieved investor" class utilizing ideological denialism to violently enforce a contested macroeconomic dividend. When these algorithmic and cultural coercions fail, the state deploys a dual legal quarantine engineered to protect institutional male capital while treating the violent expropriation of women as a localized management dispute. Ultimately, this paper demands a shift from the neoliberal pursuit of cultural equality to the establishment of structural economic sovereignty. By legally codifying social reproduction, asserting absolute biological sovereignty through property law, enforcing algorithmic liability, and formalizing cooperative parallel economies, this framework provides a structural blueprint to unilaterally void the Patriarchal Bargain and dismantle the extraction engine.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Gender and Feminist Studies Feminism Gender and Sexuality Studies Political Economy and Marxism

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
9 March 2026
Language
EN