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That they are themselves actually devils, complete with horns, is a folk belief that arises in the centuries following the Crusades, when European Jewry's problems begin in earnest.
(Whereas Gear, which retains certain elements of the old men's mag ethos, and the old hostility--and not incidentally runs somewhat longer articles--does worry about and argue with feminism, as in its recent piece on sexual repression in the military, in which it is argued, after a fashion, that 1) we can't suppress male soldiers' urge to rape and harass women without suppressing the urge to kill that's the military's reason for being, 2) sexual harassment crusades interfere with women's equality, 3) women soldiers aren't men's equals anyway, and 4) why do we need women in the military in the first place?)
In the 13th-century cloistered cemetery of the Camposanto (Holy Ground — believed to be filled with sacred dirt brought back from the Holy Land during the Crusades), note the Gothic tabernacle enclosing a Madonna and Saints.
The Crusades were launched to prepare for the Revelation; the Reformation was inspired by Martin Luther's identification of the papacy with the Antichrist; and Christian fundamentalists support Zionism because they believe that Christ will return to earth only when the Jews return to Israel.
The noisy crusades that became historical footnotes would all be literary footnotes as well.