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Magic Circle tries to track down first female member – who posed as a man

by emigre on 11/11/24, 6:36 PM with 47 comments

• by crazygringo on 11/19/24, 12:53 PM

  Wait -- the Magic Circle didn't admit female members until 1991?!

  I thought the 1960's and 70's were when all the all-male universities and other organizations opened up to women. And that mostly groups left after that were those that had a functional reason for being all-male, i.e. male tenor-bass choirs. Or certain male "fraternal" organizations.

  But magic obviously doesn't have any functional reason for being male, and it's about an activity (magic), it's not a fraternal organization. So how the heck did they go until 1991 before admitting women? That sounds crazy to me.

• by navane on 11/19/24, 12:05 PM

  Sounds like the magic circle needs the closure more than her indeed

• by fiftyacorn on 11/19/24, 12:33 PM

  I like to think that prior to the ban the meetings were like the stoning in life of brian

• by AdrianB1 on 11/19/24, 12:16 PM

  I don't understand the story, can someone explain? What I got is they try to track someone who was expelled for misrepresentation. Why? What is different today vs 30 years ago?

• by Timwi on 11/19/24, 1:53 PM

  I didn't know Mulan was a magician.

• by MrMcCall on 11/19/24, 12:43 PM

  "I would never join a club that would have me as a member." --Groucho Marx

  The pity is that most people are naive enough to believe that most other people are decent human beings. It took me nearly five decades to understand that I shouldn't project my basic sense of decency on others, which is a grave mistake as most people are just selfish, exclusionary morons who think they're on the 'expert' side of the Dunning-Kruger scale.

  Selfless compassion in the small and in the large -- that's the solution to all Earth's problems.

• by Tabular-Iceberg on 11/19/24, 12:22 PM

  Magic Circle, is that something everyone is expected to know what is?

• by lynx23 on 11/19/24, 12:02 PM

  This sounds like borderline stalking. I am not a woman, but I have my experience with getting treated unfairly/getting patronized. And I never felt like I wanted to give a bad actor a second chance to talk down to me, even if they pretend to have good intentions. If you fucked someone over, you dont have the right to run after them. Leave them alone, stop confronting them over and over again with your own stupidity.

• by nimbius on 11/19/24, 2:15 PM

  “We’re already in talks about making a movie of her extraordinary heist.”

  So that's why we suddenly had a change of misogynists' heart after thirty three years.

  Magic Circle needs this expelled members written consent to use their likeness in film.