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Having a conversation about Maiden, Mother, Crone and how it's a modern interpretation of "The Great Goddess" and doesn't actually fit any specific goddesses I know, & also how it reduces the divine female to a reproductive cycle, and how much I dislike it. Which led me to (1/?)
Thinking about one of the most precious gifts our transgender and gender fluid friends bring to us, which is a chance to define femininity and masculinity in terms OTHER than reproductive function. Which of course got me thinking about TERFs & how absurd they are, because (2/?)
Haven't feminists been fighting to be seen as more than a womb for centuries? Isn't one of our biggest problems the way our culture limits and oppress people based on their reproductive organs? Wouldn't we ALL benefit from ending this habit of defining each other by (3/?)
what we have in our pants? If you're a feminist and hate trans women, you're shooting yourself in the foot. If you're a witch and think your power comes from your vagina/uterus, you're limiting yourself - and what happens if you have a medical need for a hysterectomy?(4/?)
If you lose your womb, do you cease to be a witch? Isn't it hypocritical for a witch, who slips in and out of many worlds and takes many forms in spirit travel, to reject the idea of gender as a spectrum that has less to do with our physical bodies than with our spirits? (5/?)
I just don't get why anyone who has been ostracized or oppressed for being somehow "other" would then ostracize someone else for rejecting gender norms and embracing who they are at their core. I think we should be giving our trans friends medals of valor and fancy tiaras. End.
