#anti cisgendered assholes

[dysphoriaposting]

Ah, and just to clarify:

Lesbians, gays, men and women, EVERYONE can be anti-trans. These people all equally deserve to GO DIE.

[mimsyaf]

As the mother of an intersex little girl, the blowup of asshole online commentary and ignorant news articles about Imane Khelif has made me so angry I could bite someone. Not figuratively. LITERALLY.

JKR now just fully posting anti-intersex hate, and the response from like Newsweek is just SO FUCKING IGNORANT AND STUPID AND CRUEL.

People online calling anyone with XY chromosomes a man, and this is the hellscape that my five year old (pink-wearing, Elsa-worshipping, high femme) little girl has to look forward to?

Oh, curse them all to hell, these fucking racist TERFs. I mean it.

To be clear: JKR’s anti-trans hate crusade is one of the most wildly harmful positions I’ve ever seen, with devastating implications for trans people world-wide. She’s PERSONALLY responsible for setting trans rights in the UK back decades.

She was already the Devil’s own tool for spreading misery on earth.

But she just came for the intersex community, which is my child’s community. She did and now so many others did too. And I am so angry. I have never been so angry in my life.

One last thing: Imane Khelif has never publicly identified as either trans or intersex. She was assigned female at birth. Mind you I support trans athletes but she is not a trans athlete. There’s a lot of speculation in the news that she could be intersex but to be clear the only people who would know that for sure are Imane Khelif and her medical team.

JK Rowling supports cisgender women so much that she just spewed hate all over two cisgender female Olympic athletes, focusing a terrifying amount of negative attention on them at what should be an exciting occasion. All while ignoring the ACTUAL RAPIST of a twelve year old girl who is competing on the Dutch volleyball team this year, but go off I guess.

Where is the goat from Drag Me To Hell, I need that motherfucker to hie itself off to a certain moldy castle in Scotland and camp out for a few days.

[evilbitch103]

just to make it clear i dont fw ronnie radke and i dont fw anyone else who does . i’ve never seen a public figure as childish and ignorant as he is, he’s a grown man with a kid acting like an edgy 16 year old and its weird af .

for some reason he really enjoys speaking for cis women, saying we “don’t want to be called cis” and also called cis a pedophile term. 1 quick google search will tell you cis is quite literally just a latin prefix that’s been around longer than he has, meaning “on this side/this side of” and cisgender was coined in 1994 by dana defosse who is NOT a pedophile. she is a retired researcher with a phD.

in addition to being an overall asshole outside of social issues, he’s also anti-mask and thinks showing vaccine cards during a pandemic during which people are fucking DYING is sooo ridiculous. coming from a cis woman and a nursing student + hospital worker , FUCK ronnie radke and FUCK anyone that defends him ty

[cleverthylacine]

Votes for Biden are the ONLY thing that will keep this asshole out of the White House next year!!!

Here's what he wanted to do about Israel & Palestine:

The question is not whether our American quality of life is more important than the right of Palestinians to continue living.

The question is whether we: retirees, disabled people, queer people, brown people, pregnant people, trans people, Muslims, Jews, and everyone else who is not white, Christian, heterosexual, cisgender and willing and able to procreate -- will be able to continue living.

You can't help anyone else if you're deported because you don't look white enough.

You can't help anyone else if you're shot by Trump's troops while protesting.

You can't help anyone else if you're dying of a botched abortion.

You can't help anyone else if your untreated dysphoria drives you to suicide before you're 18.

You can't help anyone else if the bird flu comes and you're allowed to die because you're old or disabled and yet again we don't have enough masks or ventilators for all the people who need them.

[area51-escapee]

I think one of the many reasons that being told to vote to solve all our problems is infuriating is because like. Okay, voting is in November. So until November, I’m supposed to sit patiently while people openly and proudly threaten my community, threaten the rights of people like me, threaten the rights of others, be loud and proud about their bigotry. And I’m supposed to wait until November, and vote, and hope the party that wins will actually do something about it. And when they don’t, and these people are only more emboldened, I’m supposed to wait four more years to vote again and hope the next person does something about it. And that’s not enough for me. And it makes me so angry that we’re being told “oh, if project 2025 happens, take down your pride flags, go back in the closet, don’t hold hands with your partner, present as cisgender”, as solutions being proposed by our own damn community. I think the fuck not. I don’t think it’s fair that we’re supposed to live in fear and cower away while these assholes just. Get away with it. I am so fucking angry all the time and I genuinely feel like transphobes, homophobes, racists, Zionists, anti-abortion advocates, all those motherfuckers should be just as scared of us as they want us to be of them.

[braingoboops]

So I saw something recently that basically went "Cis people getting upset about changes in language and disrespecting gender and pronouns," and like, yes, there are indeed people out there who will refuse to comply with your gender identity and pronouns. But the fact they're saying it's "cis" people doing so inherently is creating a division that doesn't need to exist. Not all cis people are transphobic, anti-lgbt, etc...

My own step-father is a Cisgendered white man who grew up with specific beliefs. Last year we were at dinner and he made a comment that was very hateful towards Transpeople, and yes, it made me uncomfortable to hear that kind of discriminatory language from someone I care about.

But you know what? I brought it up, explained to him that it made me uncomfortable, and asked him to do some research into the subject, while offering my own point of view. And he did. He listened, he changed, and he is a lot more accepting.

So yes, there are people who discriminate out there, but that does not mean you can in turn label a specific group to be against you.

What I'm saying is we need to stop giving labels of hatred to entire groups of people. Not every cis white male is going to be a narrow minded asshole.

That's not a perspective we need to be pushing. Enough of the we vs them mentalities. People are people, and grouping them is reductive. Just relax and let people live how they want. As long as no one is getting harmed, then it's okay.

It's okay for people to be uncomfortable with using a pronoun that may not fit your gender identity. They may not know better, or maybe they were raised in an environment where that wasn't okay, and so they in turn don't want the people they know getting upset with this change in perspective.

All it takes is patience and the willingness to listen, to understand that your perspective isn't the only one, nor is it the correct one in every single situation.

Sorry if I went on a bit of a ramble or tangent. I'm just so tired of seeing hatred towards groups of people instead of individuals. Individuals can be bad, and yes there will be examples of groups that are inherently something you want to fight against, such as the KKK, and terrorist organizations, but you also have to remember that there are people in those organizations too, who may be a part of them not because they want to be, but because they have no other choice or other perspective.

It's very idealistic to wish to help everyone connect, I know that, but it doesn't mean that we can't try to have better influences on our environment, no matter how small.

I'm not going to be able to change everyone's opinion about something, and that's okay, because I was able to change my dad's, and that's okay too.

[zack-the-emo-boy]

Hello, idiots of the internet. I am here to talk about politics and also educate losers.

Name: Zack or Aaron

Pronouns: He/They.

My Political Stances:

-Pro-choice [but I wouldn't get an abortion for myself.]

-Believe in the existence of transandrophobia[Mostly perpetrated by cisgender women]

-Pro-transgender medical care[Obviously, why would I be against things for myself?]

-Pro-MOGAI[Just as long as they have some sort of dysphoria, doesn't need to be constant though.]

-Proship/Anti-harassment[I don't ship that much problematic things or like that much, but harassing is another story.]

-Anti-TERF. [No, that does not mean I'm anti-women, I just don't like transphobic assholes who try to convert transgender people. My sincerest apologies.]

-Paracritical[Sure, they can cope with it some way but it's different when they actively try to act on it. Especially the big three.]

-Anti-transid[Most of them use it as an "uwu cute disability" or something so I don't even want to interact with them]

That's all I remember for now. Now please realize my posts are based on a mix of fact and emotion.

-Sincerely, an emo boy.

[adarlingmess]

I think I finally figured out what's off. It's misogyny, pure and simple.

Villainesses and anti-heroines had been sexualized since time immemorial. In the last 100 years we see them from film noir femme fatales, to Bond girls, to comic book characters like Catwoman and The Baroness.

Videogames weren't safe from this phenomenon. In RPGs where romances are becoming popular, players are given the choice to go after the "bad girl"... While "bad boys" are more scarce in comparison. Why?

I don't want to throw my fellow sapphics under the bus, but even with the significant cultural shifts in the recent years, these romances with bad girls are marketed towards cisgender heterosexual men. Men in fiction are allowed to play with fire and possibly reform or conquer these dangerous women. Villainess romances fulfill sexual, romantic, and power fantasies for them. When a man expresses attraction towards a villainess, I've never seen anyone tell him "but she's evil!" and men don't get shamed for that. Evil is sexy... if the evil in question is a she.

Meanwhile, women get derided for loving bad boy romances that we used to mostly get from romance novels. These fictional men aren't even villains, they're just bad boys. Until recently the recent explosion of villain romances in circles like booktok, villains and anti-heroes that are romantically or sexually linked to the female protagonist are often depicted as predatory, irredeemable creatures who aims to destroy the purity of these women, such as Dracula towards Mina, and Erik/The Phantom towards Christine.

As a femme queer participant of fandoms, I observed that women and members of the LGBTQIA+ community get so much flak from wanting the villains and anti-heroes, and a small but vocal part of the BG3 fandom even engages in that bullshit. I've seen folks, especially cishet men, who mock female and LGBTQIA gamers for romancing Astarion and wanting romances with villains like Raphael and Gortash. The worst of them fall into redpill nice guy rhetoric, saying shit like "uGh wOmEn'S rOmAnCe oPtIoNs pRoVe tHaT tHeY wAnT aSsHoLes aNd dOn'T gIvE nIcE gUyS LiKe Us A cHaNcE."

This misogynistic phenomenon infantilizes women and queer folks, making them seem like naive children who can't differentiate fiction from reality, while men indulge in the same fantasies without reproach.

We just want options. Personally, I always wanted to see what could've happened if Mina Harker damns Jonathan and stays with Dracula. I've always wondered how things would have turned out if Christine chose the Phantom instead of going with Raoul. As mentioned above, the rise of villain romances in books is starting to balance the scales. Now that videogames have become a robust medium for storytelling, give us the option to explore these narratives.

There's a lack of morally grey/evil male romantic options for BG3.

Let me preface this by saying that the direction Larian Studios took for the romances are groundbreaking. I can definitely feel the effect they wanted us to feel with the romances- it feels like an actual relationship instead of a game where the end goal is just sex. The players are given an opportunity to influence their love interests and affect their storylines for better or for worse, just like how one would in a real relationship. Kudos!

But… I need to say it. As much as I love Baldur's Gate and BG3, the "bad girl" romance options are numerous (Viconia, Hexxat & arguably Safana in the predecessor games; Shadowheart, Lae'Zel, & Minthara + Mizora as a fling in 3) compared to the male (Dorn in 2, Astarion in 3). There's something off about it that I can't put my finger on. Plus, player have more control on whether to "fix" the bad girls or "make her worse". Meanwhile, Astarion is the only "bad boy" you can do that with. You can't even steer Dorn to a lighter path- he will straight up leave you if you are too good.

In Baldur's Gate 3, every male romance option except Astarion starts off as "good boy" romances. Gale and Wyll did questionable things but their alignment ultimately leans towards good. Halsin is a walking green flag. What if we want to roleplay a character who is into the "bad boys"? This is why we were clamoring for a Raphael and Abdirak romance since Early Access. I see folks wanting Nere and Gortash too. Where are our bastards? Please, we want to play with fire 👀

[butterscotch-brigade]

so in like early 2016 some time after undertale came out there were ofc a lot of assholes who tried to deny that chara and frisk were canonically nonbinary and used they/them pronouns exclusively and i being 15 years of age would often see a lot of arguments abt it on tumblr and i remember this one time when i saw someone say smth like "im so sick of cis people trying to take away our representation" and so i (also in my anti sjw "cisphobia is real" phase) sent them an anonymous message like "Hello. Although I Am Cisgender, I Am One Of The Good Ones. I'm Sorry Those Other Mean Cisgenders (Who I Am Not Like) Are Denying The Truth About Frisk's Gender" unironically thinking that i was being a Good Cis Ally. anyway op of that post if ur reading this im not cis anymore im so fuckigngn sorry

[kitten-mommy]

hello darlings~

This is an 18+ blog. Leave now if you are not above the age of 18.

This is a secondary blog to @persephone-waiting , which is my main and sfw blog.

Other secondary blogs include:

• @persephone-wanting (my general more switchy/submissive nsfw blog)

• @whore-for-nature (nsfw in nature and appreciative of nature)

With that out of the way,

this blog is..

• my place to express my sexual fantasies

• not made for you

• one featuring hard kinks

• gender & sex inclusive!

• not a safe place for bigots.

this blogger is..

• a cisgender woman who uses she/her pronouns

• una chicana 🇲🇽🇺🇸

• pansexual 💖💛💙

• a switch, but this blog is dedicated to my mommy domme interests

• 21 years old

• in a long term monogamous relationship <3

my kinks include..

• Mommy domme / submissive

• pet play

• ownership

• collaring

• scratching, biting, hair pulling, ect.

• pegging?

• breeding

• impreg

• breast feeding/lactation/milking

• degradation and praise

• general bdsm

• CNC (consensual non-consent)

•including somnophilia, intox, and free use

• loving sadism <3

• wetting/bathroom control

• knives, blood and bruises

my limits are…

• serious gore

• scat

• men over 35yo

• any fetish involving identity based discrimination (misogyny, “race play”, gender/sexuality “correction”, ect.)

DNI if-

• your blog is dedicated to r@pe

• you’re a pedophile or supporter

• you’re fatphobic

• you’re a transphobe/homophobe

• you’re racist or anti-immigration

• you’re an otherwise asshole

thank you for reading, and I hope you have a lovely time scrolling through my blog <3

(feel very welcome to send asks!)

[tra-receipts]

Idk if this blog is anti-trans or just anti-assholes, but I'm actually a nonbinary person who was bullied by a transman in highschool for being cisgender. Obviously I learned years later that I'd never been cis, I was just forced into a box and talked over by a horrible person because I wouldn't chant "death to cis people" (or something) with them at a pride event. Fuck bullies of any gender or ideology.

The amount of death threats in trans ideology genuinely amazes me. I know we have Kill All Men in feminism, but death to cis people and death threats to anyone who disagrees with them and telling lesbians who won’t date trans people to kill themselves? It’s filled with violence.

(Also, anon, this blog is run by radfems, but it exists only to provide receipts of misogyny, violence, homophobia, and other shit done by TRAs so make of that as you will.)

[awkwardandeccentric]

1. Blitzø is more masculine than Stolas, so people are more able to make excuses for him when they don’t want to for Stolas because Stolas is more effeminate (could you imagine if Blitzø or even Stolas was a woman? Everyone would lose their goddamn minds). A lot of Stolas hate is thinly-veiled homophobia and misogyny because even though he’s a cisgender man, his emotional expression, way of speaking, and his clothing is more effeminate.

2. Blitzø is working class while Stolas is not. And a lot of people have very weird opinions on the working class. Mostly savior complex nonsense (“He can’t know better than to treat people like dog shit! He’s a poor! The poor can’t be expected to not act like assholes! The poor are just little babies that need to be taught to not be assholes!)

3. A lot of Stolas antis are way too young to even be here so they don’t understand the nuances and grey areas. Like calling him a bad father or saying Stella was only made abusive to make Stolas look better by comparison (I hope they never see Titanic or Moulin Rouge. Even if that is true, which I don’t agree with that assessment, all it reveals is that they don’t understand that the vast majority of people don’t actually like seeing queer men destruct functioning families).

4. A lot of people headcanon Blitz as autistic and that’s totally valid but out of the two of them, Stolas screams autism to me. The isolation, not having the ability to read a social cue unless it’s slammed against his skull, intense interests, preferring to work alone and loving his research, wearing what’s comfortable instead of what’s fashionable, stimming, etc. And a lot of the people that hate him lowkey also hate us autistics. Sorry, not sorry. Stolas is an easy target because he’s just like the people they hate in real life (maybe even including themselves. There’s a thought).

So before I get started, I just want to say that I am a huge Stolas fan and I relate to him on so many levels, but also I don't hate Blitzø because honestly, I kind of relate to him a bit too, so please don't take this as Blitzø hate because it's not.

The double standards in Helluva Boss 

Stolas using Blitzø is wrong.

Blitzø using Stolas isn't 

Stolas sexually harassing Blitzø is wrong 

Blitzø sexually harassing Moxxie is funny. 

People treating Blitzø poorly is wrong.

Blitzø treating people poorly is not

Stolas calling Blitzø Blitzy is annoying. 

Blitzø calling Stolas birdbrain meal ticket bitch or calling others out of their names is fine.

Stolas having insecurities and trauma are ignored. 

Blitzø having insecurities and trauma is so sad.

[antiloreolympus]

A Bunch of Anti LO Asks

1. I have a lot to say about lo’s writing so here we go:

1) there is so little foreshadowing. I can’t even name one instance other then Kronos being reawakened but that was a literal direct shot of it instead of it being hinted at. There’s very little to none at all ( correct me if I’m wrong.) 2) The pacing??? This all happens in 2 weeks but so much has happened and it’s all happened so slow it feels like it’s been at least a year ( in universe time.) 3) I feel like this has been said enough but using trauma as a way to move the plot along is literally the laziest thing I’ve ever seen.

I’m sorry if this is like hella stupid or something like that

2. i dont get why the writing in LO refuses to let persephone be dark and accepting of death/punishment, because isn't that what you need to show she's going to be a good queen? she seems terrified of the concept and keeps trying to find ways to reverse them, which goes against the whole point of ruling over the dead and even something in myth hades DID NOT like, so its weird to keep making her the opposite of what she's supposed to be? shes just making the case she's not right for the role?

3. apollo/hyacinthus is having such a big resurgence right now that i dont get why rachel didnt include them as friends/a couple persephone cares about and, when hyacinthus dies, have persephone resurrect him. not only would it show her kind nature and sway over hades, but it would also be some actual positive canon gay representation that has legit myth backing. RS obviously got most of her takes from tumblr, yet couldnt take the pro apollo/hyacintus take too? is her heterosexuality that strong :/

4. the whole r*pe plotline was BY RACHEL HERSELF said to not be included, she promised as much, and readers were excited they were finally able to see a depiction of HxP without sexual assault, only for it to turn out she was lying with only a measly "this might be bad uwu" warning on the ep, triggering many people in the process. then she tried to backtrack and claim it was a #MeToo moment, and that irl victims were haters for calling it out. That speaks to who she really is, and it's not pretty.

5. lo hades isnt even cute tbh. what exactly makes him so desirable to make all these women fight over him for? his design is basic (and kinda antisemitic, a guy with a gigantic nose controlling the media and all the banks/money? rachel please), hes not charming or funny, he talks over all the women in his life, never listens to being rightfully called out, he never apologizes or does any self reflection, etc. hes just awful??? like even by an uwu hes misunderstood POV hes just a boring jerk?

6. I think the reason Punderworld or HXP Ficlets doesn't get the amount of scrutiny LO does (and PW is def LO's rival, WT has begged to Feature it several times) is because they had the good sense to never get high and mighty about their depictions, something RS absolutely does all the time. In fact the PW creator constantly promotes over myth comics and loves other takes on the mythos, while RS flips out unless its exactly how she sees it. How she survived school w/ that attitude we'll never know

7. also if demeter was as evil in LO as they want her to be then why would she ever let her emotionally unstable child out into the city with no supervision and no way to contact her? Why would she be going through all this trouble including putting her own welfare into question like trying to keep persephone out of harms' way via the cruelty of thee olympian men and out of jail (WHERE SHE BELONGS) if she's the big bad? Why even make her abusive and evil to begin with? Can't Persephone love both?

8. even if lo needs a villain (which it doesnt but w/e) must it be apollo? or leto? or minthe? or anyone for that matter? if you need some ~drama~ just use eris? she doesn't need some tragic backstory, she's an asshole for the sake of being an asshole. you could so easily have her basically be like TMZ causing discord through her popular blog and causing shit because she can. LO shoots itself in the foot by trying too hard to be deep and thought provoking when its as deep as a puddle.

9. less persephone/hades and more dionysos/ariadne: whats more romantic? a man kidnapping his underage niece and her friends crying themselves to death over it (cyane) or ariadne being dumped by her first boyfriend only to come back with some serious bling and a hot divine partner that is at least the physical equiv of her own age? (dionysos is usually depicted as mentally/physically quite young, so the godly age gap is less creepy/statutory-y)

10. vis a vis the sexual assault anon: it is also something that happens with horrific frequency to trans people as well. the number of trans reports of sexual assault that get thrown out per year by sample size is almost 5x the amount of cis female ones. LO already has some weird terfy undertones with the fertility thing, but just because it happens less (or rather, is reported less) by cisgender men doesnt mean it happens the most to cis women.

[fluorescentbrains]

so i finished (re)watching soul eater with @autisticandroids last night, and i used to think maka suddenly being revealed as a demon weapon was stupid as hell, but now i feel like it rules actually?

like a lot of things about the finale, the reveal wasn’t executed well; but in theory it makes TOTAL SENSE that maka is actually a weapon. her Whole Thing is that she idolizes her mother; she is basically trying to BE her by becoming a meister and making a Death Scythe and using her anti magic wavelength (that she inherited FROM her mother) to save the day. she literally chose a scythe named soul to be her weapon partner, when her dad is a scythe named spirit. She Is Trying To Be Her Mom. thus, in the final boss battle, she comes into her own and defeats the kishin literally by Just Being Maka.

the weapon/meister dynamics are weirdly and somewhat inconsistently gendered, but i don’t think it’s coincidental that most weapon/meister pairs we meet are woman/man. maka and soul subvert this expectation somewhat in that maka is one of the rare female meisters, but it’s also clear that maka sees herself as following her mother’s example—and her mother’s example is really, really cisheterosexual!

maka is very worried about how she fits in to the cisgender, heterosexual paradigm. in the first episode she rails against men in general for being fickle, shallow, and untrustworthy. she’s self-conscious about how her body is not attractive to men, but she also resists any attempt to sexualize her. in her attempt to emulate her mother, maka strains to meet heteronormative expectations, while at the same time chafing against them. my reading of her relationship with soul is that maka kind of assumes they’re going to get married someday, but she has no romantic or sexual feelings for him whatsoever. she gets pissy when blair flirts with soul, but that’s not because she’s jealous in a romantic sense; rather, blair’s hyperfeminine sexuality is a reminder of maka’s own inadequacy—maka’s idealized future of following her mother’s example by making a death scythe and then marrying him is threatened. this hurts her relationship with soul early on because in casting soul as her future husband, she projects her resentment of her father onto him, and assumes the worst of all his motivations.

when you look at maka’s character through this lens, the reveal that she’s been subconsciously suppressing her weapon form all this time is HUGELY poignant. even more so when you consider that she’s a scythe, like her father, whose misconduct—specifically his sleazy behavior towards women—has caused her so much pain over the years.

maka’s impression of basically all the expressions of sexuality she encounters is that Sex Is Bad And It Makes You Act Like An Asshole. that probably extends to her own sexuality as well—especially if she’s at all attracted to women/femininity, like her father. and in MY humble opinion, the closest we ever get to maka being horny in the anime is her flashback to staring at crona in class, to which crona reacts by blushing demurely, so. Y’know. (crona’s not a woman, but they definitely aren’t a traditional man, either.)

anyways. this post was SUPPOSED to be like 2 paragraphs long but in conclusion: maka is a repressed baby gay, revealing that maka has been repressing her scythe identity was actually a brain genius move that nobody gave the anime credit for, Let Maka Be A Gay Knife, get in loser we’re queering weapon/meister partnerships

[rametarin]

Warhammer 40K was never meant to cater to ideologues that want SO VERY MUCH to talk about socialism and communism, or talk about how everything in their lives is white supremacist by default, and how that needs to be forcibly changed and altered to be "something else". Which, spoilers, is socialist or communist, and their standards of what is antiracist or not boils down to how much society's social policies reflect their objectives. And if they aren't their objectives, they declare them to be white supremacist, cisheteronormic patriarchy, etc.

These people swarmed into WH40K like they did everything else and decided the people that were already there were just a bunch of white supremacist "chuds" and they needed to "save" the hobby, make it, "more inclusive" (wink wink) for people that weren't.... "white supremacist chuds" (wink wink)

The sorts of people that believe literature must speak and preach about, "good morals and culture" and be "anti-bad things" (as dictated and determined and conveyed by Social Justice Activsts.. whom are the culture and population I outlined above), or else literature and culture by default promotes those bad things, and nobody else but they and their values are allowed to publish or write, or it's white supremacist cisheteronormic patriarchy, again.

Through those lenses, they see everybody that does not share their extremist views that NOT catering to their values is inherently a white supremacist, male supremacist, cisheteronorm, as a white supremacist patriarchist. So even if you just stand there, by their logic and morals and views, you're being oppressive to women and brown people. That's their status quo view of things. Something is oppressing just by existing, and so it needs to be culturally, if not physically, abolished.

They don't CARE that WH40K uses dry, deadpan humor and absurdist realism to convey the horrors of Empire (particularly British empire) taken to its natural extreme of idolizing a god emperor. They see it only as a platform for culture. One that they should own and have speaking control over. They don't CARE that the setting deliberately has rigidly locked the populace into a neo-anachronistic setting of powdered wigs, tricorn hats, 800 AD to 1800 AD fashion and culture because that's part of the decay and stagnation. They only care that it reflects their contemporary values and champions things they want to champion as default.

They see a cismale only organization like the Adeptus Astartes and go, "That's unacceptable. This is an outpost for the cultural idea that cisgendered males are significant or meaningful in some way." And seek to deliberately dismantle and destroy it, so such a thing cannot exist. Regardless of how ridiculous or absurd it would be, by diminishing that whole, "the empire runs on old fashioned anachronistic dogmas and prejudices" thing. Bugger story and integrity, it doesn't reflect what we want the product or cultural artifact to be, it must change to accommodate our values on behalf of whom claim to give a shit about the franchise, but only if it accommodates them.

They see one sorry asshole in Spain that painted his figures up like Nazis in an ill advised bit of spicy humor and see that as some sort of cultural admission of support on behalf of the WH40K fandom, weaving bad faith tales about how the standard neckbeard WH40K player is a Weirmachtaboo and how the WH40K fandom is sooooo full of Nazis, that only tooth grinding self-avowed intersectional feminists can ever find, and never in good faith, and their very existence justifies declaring the whole thing "hospitable for Nazis."

By that logic we should equally purge it of communists. I think Poland would agree. But they don't want communists or communism purged from representation in the game, that's somehow harmless or good.

Warhammer 40k fans for some reason: I don't understand why all these fascism haters like our hobby that is clearly meant to cater to fascists

[hexlibris]

Wicca is Kinda Bad

[Reposted from WordPress]

[Note: Please read the whole thing before jumping up my asshole. I don’t hate Wiccans, that isn’t what this is about.]

Let’s start at the beginning. Wicca was first introduced by a man named Gerald Gardner, sometime in the early 1950s. Mr Gardner was into the typical New Age (or…Proto-New Age?) stuff; Aleister Crowley, Hermeticism, Buddhism, Indigenous practices, voodoo…et cetera. He was also a far-right conservative. It’s pretty easy to deduce his stance on social issues based on that.

Gardner was also really into the idea that the Witch Trials targeted people who were part of a “witch-cult”. The real motivations for witch trials were anti-Semitism, personal beef and, more often than not, misogyny. I’ll talk about Witch Trials on a later date, though.

Wicca is, for most, a duotheistic religion based around the worship of a God and Goddess. Some Wiccans believe that the God and Goddess are just the God and Goddess and are their own entities, separate from the deities of other pantheons. Some believe that all other deities are archetypes of their God & Goddess. Some pick a specific God and Goddess as their patron and matron.

The God, the divine masculine, is associated with power, strength and his symbols are mostly phallic in nature. The Goddess, the divine feminine, is associated with fertility, love, calm and her symbols are in the same strain as the God, except more…and many rituals involve the union between the God and Goddess as lovers.

The symbolism is misogynistic, cissexist, reinforces the gender binary and is heteronormative. Of course, this inspires certain attitudes. Similar attitudes to Gardner. This makes Wicca only truly welcoming to heterosexual and cisgender people. Not to say that LGBT people can’t be Wiccan, obviously, but it isn’t welcoming.

As a young person, just figuring myself out, while also practicing Wicca, the strict gender roles and cissexism made it incredibly difficult to accept that I was nonbinary. The way Wicca is presented made me–and others–believe that I must be suffering from internal misogyny because there is nobody more suited for witchcraft than women. Women are more intuitive and inherently better at ‘magick’. Along with the symbolism and radical feminist undertones, it was very obvious that they meant assigned female at birth people. Being assigned female at birth makes you more intuitive, inherently better at ‘magick’, et cetera. Transgender and nonbinary people do not exist in this framework. Gender identity that falls outside of the social norm is inherently incompatible.

Appropriation is an issue that is not unique to Wicca, but Wicca is built on it so it is worth mentioning.

Many practices associated with Wicca are the product of cultural appropriation. The yin and yang are misappropriated often (Taoism), nobody seems to know what karma is (Hindu/Buddhism), chakras are thrown around without any indication that the speaker knows what they’re even talking about (Hindu/Buddhism/Jainism), there’s a section on smudging in every book (Native American), et cetera.

A personal pet peeve of mine is ‘syncretic’ Wiccan traditions. They try to take aspects of other religions and push them into a Wiccan framework. I’d consider it disrespectful, at best. Especially with regards to the Triple Goddess archetype.

The Wiccan Rede is often forced upon people who are not Wiccan in discussions that revolve around curses and ‘harmful’ forms of magic. This often comes off as hypocritical, since many Wiccans claim some sort of superiority to Christians, some of which have a tendency to proselytize or otherwise insinuate their worldviews onto people. The Wiccan way is also often assumed to be the default way.

The insistence that Wicca is ancient and, therefore, more valid also gives off a certain vibe that I can’t quite define. At least, not one that I can define briefly.

Wicca also tends to attract radical feminists who start women only covens that only admit women-born-women. They claim to be fighting the patriarchy, obviously unaware that excluding trans women and nonbinary people is directly enforcing the patriarchy, not fighting it.

In conclusion, Wicca is kinda bad. That’s it. Wiccans are fine sometimes, but Wicca is is kinda bad. It’s pretty hard to remove a movement from its origins.

Also Mr Gardner described homosexuality as a curse, he was unambiguous about his feelings on that end.