Hiya, may I ask what you meant about neopagan worship and LGBT+ issues in your latest post?

deerpriestess:

edderkopper:

• The gendering of everything, including inanimate objects like rocks, in two binary genders which some will insist don’t correspond with human genders yet conveniently match up with all the Western gender stereotypes
• An entire cosmology built around said binary
• Getting angry when, e.g., a trans woman says, “Sorry, I would rather not be labeled as having any male energy” or if a nonbinary person tries to explain, “No,
  my agender ass is not a mix of male and female energies, thanks.”

• The emphasis on using heterosexual (and only heterosexual) sex as a metaphor for creation and fertility
• The emphasis on sex in general over other forms of fertility
• The pressure to engage in sex (particularly heterosexual sex) and the shaming of those who aren’t into it as being oppressive and blinded by Christian baggage or w/e
• Breaking down the three major archetypes of womanhood based on the ability to reproduce. (And not doing the same for manhood. And not including nonbinary people at all.)
• TE/RF/s. So many T/ER/Fs. The label may be relatively new, but neopagan spheres have been full of rad/ic/al fem/ini/sts who exclude trans people for decades.This is what initially drove me away during my first stab at the religion back in the 90′s. To this day I feel a jolt of fear when I meet someone who worships exclusively female deities.

This isn’t to say that there aren’t any Wiccan and Wicca-adjacent groups that don’t have these problems, or that groups of a more recon bent are entirely free of these problems. But I personally wasn’t able to find any acceptance at all until I discovered recon communities. 

Man, I talk about this a lot. It’s always disheartening when I buy a new book on Witchcraft to read and come to find out it’s riddled with ~feminine and masculine energies~ crap. Now I research books beforeI buy them, but the $3-7 ones from the thrift store I pick up on occasion are a toss up.

This is especially true for my younger years. It was extremely disheartening and turned me off to witchcraft when I was younger.

Didn’t help that most Wiccan groups (FB and IRL) were just made up of racist, homophobic white soccer moms “embracing feminine energies/womanhood of witchcraft”. Not a good environment for my agender self.

I don’t see my broom as a masculine object, sorry.