I knew a Wiccan online who labeled herself as a (I think) "Dark Road Dianic" and her description of her religion was about the most sexist thing I had ever heard of. According to her, it was basically all about making your man happy and being a "feminine" woman and "not being a man". Apparently, the whole role of the Goddess is to serve and please the God.
I nearly threw up on my laptop screen, especially when she talked about how she thought "women should keep their nose out of politics". I'm an atheist, and used to think that being a bigoted and intolerant asshat because of religion was limited to Christianity...I have come to find that it is rampant among atheists, Wiccans, whatever. The moral is, I guess, people are people, and jerks get into everything. As if the sexism wasn't bad enough, she and several of the other members at the board (which was mostly Pagan of various flavors) were really disgustingly anti-Christian to the point where even I wanted to chuck something at them all. Tolerant my ass. We had this one poor Christian guy who pretty much had to apologize every two seconds for nothing, and this same woman got away with comparing his religion to "a box of dead kittens" despite the rules saying that criticizing another's religion wasn't cool. I guess that only counts if you're criticizing Pagan faiths there, though, because those in charge joined in, and I even got some crap for my atheism once they realized that rejecting ALL religion means I also reject theirs.
No, I'm not trying to stereotype all Pagans as being this way, I'm just pointing out my own experiences with the bad apples of the bunch. I am grateful, though, because like I said, it helped me realize that you can't bank on a person being open-minded and such just because of their faith.
And yeah, share a story! C'mon, I told ya mine! =D Albeit totally without being asked...
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Date: 2009-01-10 12:42 am (UTC)I nearly threw up on my laptop screen, especially when she talked about how she thought "women should keep their nose out of politics". I'm an atheist, and used to think that being a bigoted and intolerant asshat because of religion was limited to Christianity...I have come to find that it is rampant among atheists, Wiccans, whatever. The moral is, I guess, people are people, and jerks get into everything. As if the sexism wasn't bad enough, she and several of the other members at the board (which was mostly Pagan of various flavors) were really disgustingly anti-Christian to the point where even I wanted to chuck something at them all. Tolerant my ass. We had this one poor Christian guy who pretty much had to apologize every two seconds for nothing, and this same woman got away with comparing his religion to "a box of dead kittens" despite the rules saying that criticizing another's religion wasn't cool. I guess that only counts if you're criticizing Pagan faiths there, though, because those in charge joined in, and I even got some crap for my atheism once they realized that rejecting ALL religion means I also reject theirs.
No, I'm not trying to stereotype all Pagans as being this way, I'm just pointing out my own experiences with the bad apples of the bunch. I am grateful, though, because like I said, it helped me realize that you can't bank on a person being open-minded and such just because of their faith.
And yeah, share a story! C'mon, I told ya mine! =D Albeit totally without being asked...