So if you’ve been on Tunglr dot com, you may have seen this project called “Butch Pal for the Straight Gal”. Basically, it’s a lesbian version of Queer Eye. The project was aimed for 15k and earned it rather quickly. But there were people who were calling it a scam cause there has been history of people asking for money to do a show and then running away once they get that money on Tumblr so people have good reasons to call it a scam and be cautious of it. User pizza-queen had pitched for it but it turns that she and others have been harrasing a minor for merely criticizing the show. Reminder that the people harrasing the minor are all 20+ year olds who can’t take criticism. They have threatened to sue the minor for “harrasing” them. The users who’ve been doing this are pizza-queen, saulgoodmaam, butchpalgal, and ohdarlingyourbeautiful
These people are threatening to sue the minor and they are literally adults. Don’t support the show as these people are threatening a child for merely voicing her opinion and trying to ruin her life
And some of the main reasons why a lot of people think this is a scam (myself included):
In what WORLD are 15,000 USD enough to produce a show of that caliber? However, it’s enough for random individuals to get some juicy cash.
These girls aren’t affiliated with whoever owns the rights to Queer Eye. In what world would they be able to make a direct spin off without access to those rights? That’s begging to get sued! lmao
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.
fair--y backup 