#gender in witchcraft

[thestrawberraebunn]

[lemongrass77777-moved]

why are you multigender? wrong answers only

[luminous-lavender]

Cracks me up when I see posts like this”Aphrodite/artemis/ insert X deity here would hate TERFS”

Like let’s be so fr. If you think for one second that Artemis, PROTECTOR OF WOMEN AND GIRLS, the same woman who turned a man into a stag for the crime of peeping on her would at all tolerate men cosplaying as women then you’re delusional.

I need to meet more TERF witches bc the regular helpol/pagan communities are overrun by handmaidens and TIM’s.

[nous-teleios]

I've seen some people online post about how men shouldn't worship feminine goddesses, and how women shouldn't worship masculine gods, and I just wanted to post a rant on here giving my thoughts and debunking this take.

So, basically, the idea is that goddesses such as Juno, Venus or various goddesses that fall in the mother goddess group should not be worshipped by men, because they preside over things which are exclusive to women, and which men can't metaphysically relate to.

The issue is that these goddesses preside over aspects of everyone's experience. Venus, for example, is the goddess of beauty and love. Is a person of either gender somehow unable to relate to these ideas?

As for the mother goddesses, to deny any group of people, the worship of mother goddesses would basically deny their nature. They are universal mothers, and as such, this group of deities is the most open and accepting of worshippers of different kinds. A mother loves all her children equally, and is equally willing to help them all.

Even in incredibly masculinity centred religions such as Christianity, mother goddesses such as Mary are widely worshipped because of this motherly quality of universal and unconditional love.

In pagan spaces, I often see people reducing various deities to glorified vending machines that give out specific kinds of things in response to prayer or ritual. The Gods are not simply sky people who give gifts to people who say the right words. We owe them unconditional love, even to ones we feel like we can't relate to, because that is the first step in our awakening. Realising that everything in our reality is spiritual and that the spiritual/material dichotomy is a false one is the most important breakthrough.

To learn to see and appreciate the influence of a blacksmith god in your daily life, or of a childbirth goddess is a good way to start this process. Don't reduce deities to their gender, and be wary of anyone trying to push for this rigid division.

[theflashjaygarrick]

As someone who has studied the history of Early Modern European witchcraft at university it is funny how many terfs spread theories as indisputable fact that are unaccepted within mainstream historical scholarship.

Yes men could be witches. No it was not a conspiracy against midwives. Yes it was rooted in misogyny and the societal disempowerment of women. No this was not the only relevant factor. Religion, class and social dynamics were also super important. Not to mention the blatant anti semitism.

The European witch hunts are such a fascinating and disturbing historical phenomenon, and I hate how it has been over simplified to support a radfem narrative.

[little-witchys-garden]

[childofthewolvess]

Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine, even down to the concept can be incredibly misogynistic and erase nonbinary folks, and when used in contemporary spaces without even acknowledging the movements they came from can be incredibly, incredibly harmful.

Gods and deities are energetic extensions of the universe which is and never has been defined by male or female. Nature, by default, is genderless and concepts of divine masculinity and femininity simply do not exist within nature. This is coming from a professional naturalist.

Masculinity and femininity are ONLY human concepts. Point blank period.

It’s okay to say a deity has a masculine or feminine energy, or recognize them in a male or female form (I certainly do, as a genderfluid/genderqueer individual), but to assign all things as Divine Masculine or Feminine while often associating feminine traits as negative (fragility; submissive; sensitive; weak; over emotional) is INCREDIBLY harmful.

[justinhubbell]

The original "J Them They" series circa 2022. Loved working on it but stopped, feeling brokenhearted. Feelings.

[creature-wizard]

Anyway, no form of witchcraft that normalizes transphobia, gender essentialism, ableism, eugenicist rhetoric, conspiracism, pseudohistory, racism, or cultural appropriation by acting like it's just a little phase that's good for your personal growth is valid, and that's that on that.

[bolszaja-miedwedica]

I'm a Dionysus devotee, of course i watched heathers and can sing "meant to be yours" from memory

I'm a Dionysus devotee, of course i cope with humor

I'm a Dionysus devotee, of course i love energy drinks

I'm a Dionysus devotee, of course i love spicy chips

I'm a Dionysus devotee, of course i love watching meme compilations

I'm a Dionysus devotee, of course they pulled pranks on me

I'm a Dionysus devotee, of course i love grapes

I'm a Dionysus devotee, of course i hold my alcohol well

I'm a Dionysus devotee, of course I'm genderfucked (lol)

I'm a Dionysus devotee, of course i listen to mother mother

I'm a Dionysus devotee, of course theyre like a fun uncle to me

I'm a Dionysus devotee, of course i laugh loudly and you can't calm me down

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[serpentsillusion]

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[occultist-romantic]

when will the gods erase men off this world and leave everything to women

[kingstarkingslay]

Is it just me or do y’all also have that one fic that helped you realise your sexuality??

For me it was Of Leaves and Stars by irrationalmoony and LadyAmina. It was the first Genderfluid! Sirius Wolfstar fic I read and I was like “ Holy shit that’s me!”

[jeanlouiecastillo]

Bambie Thug wears Jean Louie Castillo at Download Festival

[thedansemacabres]

as silly as this sounds I have uncovered that adonis is perhaps the god of male wives.

he is cited as homophobic as it sounds acting “as a man for Aphrodite and a woman for Apollon” but I think perhaps that could be something interesting. divine even. especially considering modern academia is linking Adonis more to the concept of the “failed” adult, which is most of us in/nearing our 20s. He stands outside the boundaries of traditional roles, including of what is a “wife” and a “husband”