The best she ever got in the books was probably the Liberty Belle look because she was allowed to have a proper neckline.

I think any of us wanting the frolics of the Silver Age are always going to be disappointed. The downer "funk", as you see it, is actually what sells the show to the post-Whedon pop culture audience.

…the entire content of this trend is to make light of exactly that.

I think most of those kids would have been baffled and a little amused if someone came up to them a couple years ago and said the theme for their ragers wasn't properly subservient to reason or empirical findings. I mean, mermaids: also not scientific.

Places like the Northwest and Salem, Massachusetts have long been gathering places for the old and dowdy "neo-Pagan" set.

The point being that most of the people who were involved in the recent trend (which is, again, nearly over) were "dabblers" in the sense that they had parties where everyone wore black and watched pirated copies of "The Worst Witch".

No, it isn't. It's something extreme you've ascribed to me without cause, and I can't speculate as to why. You may, for instance, think I support Trump, which I don't. There's no reason to take this far afield from what I said.

No, I'm of the belief that I've expressed above.

For stand-up comics, very little, because all they have to do is look at their industry's luminaries on Twitter to understand that if they support Trump, they will be swimming against a strong current of peer pressure.

Sure, but I would say that it probably suggests more bravery on your part if you're selling KJV Bibles door-to-door than if you're a stand-up comic, where the peer pressure is to vocally oppose Trump.

Afraid of what? No one important in stand-up or on SNL is pressuring any comic anywhere to support Trump. Davidson is completely, 100% in line with peer pressure in his industry. Maybe he got there on his own, maybe he didn't, but there's no "afraid" involved with his particular point of view in his job.

There's zero pressure on him to "back down from that" in his industry.

Even Hillary supporters are able to laugh at jokes like Wikileaks emails and stuff.

Which makes her… smart?

It's just possible that someone on Saturday Night Live is fine with alienating Trump supporters because his boss is fine with alienating Trump supporters and the stand-up community at large on Twitter and elsewhere is fine with alienating Trump supporters.

I'm involved, and I'm 100% sure I'm correct. Again, you may be confusing the recent, short-lived fashion trend with the century-plus old religious movement. They don't have a ton of overlap beyond Amazon purchases.

Most of the people involved in the witchcraft trend (which is pretty much over outside of the late-to-the-game Hollywood business) are just your normal teens and twenty-somethings enjoying fashion.

Comments on this story suggest I should take back my previous comment: it seems a lot of people here really are so behind the times that they've confused a fashion trend from a few years ago with a religious movement that they've got to correct with posts about "reason" and "logic".

It's a fashion trend. You all sound hilariously out of touch. Comments like this are pretty much the equivalent of telling people that rap music is just yelling.

It's just a fashion trend, gramps.