meeting the Clay Cafe pagans with Ash / Kat, Nikki, Wolf, S / conversation with strangers = joy

[belenen]

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[wolfmare]

Feminazi... Heh. I wouldn't go so far as to say there are *no* feminists who could be described as such. Yes, it's a stereotype, but as big as the world is... there is someone somewhere who fits it. I'm just happy not to know them.

[cunningbunny]

I was going to submit my agreement to this comment, but I think I finally hit on why the nomenclature didn't feel quite right.

I do agree that there are women who fall under the "FemiNazi" definition, because I absolutely believe there are women (and have actually known one!) who believe the world would be better if all males were dead. (The person I knew made lengthy arguments about how the advances in artificial insemination/cloning/etc. have made men useless and thus their "evil" should be cleansed from the Earth...scary shit, lemme tell ya.) The difficult part falls under classifying these women as feminists at all, since feminists by the proper definition believe in equality of the sexes. The problem is, lots of people don't know (or agree with) that definition, and thus they think feminism is about promoting womanhood ahead of manhood. This is also why those true man-annihilater types call themselves "feminists" (sometimes going so far as to call themselves "the only true feminists"--at least, that's what the woman I knew

[xochitl]

The "feminazi" comment would have pissed me off too. Yeah there is a stereotype that all feminists are angry at the world. But sometimes I think-- well if you're a woman and you're not angry about SOMETHING, you're clearly not paying attention!

[saturnsdaughter]

Ah feminazi, I've had that tossed my way a couple of times. There just isn't enough time to educate all the ignorant people out there.

I wish I was as content among a group of strangers as you seem to be. I'm one of those people that will stick close to the one person I know, with conversation practically being ripped out of me. Overcoming social awkwardness is such a long process :|

[tralfamadore]

Oh, I love the sentiment about creating being a means of taking down a barrier between yourself and the object in question. I don't often think about it, but now that I've paused for a moment to consider it, I wonder if this could be a rationale for some of my difficulties in touching/interacting with certain objects. There are underlying sensory difficulties, or so I've always explained as a means of fostering understanding in others before, but this seems much more fitting to me. I'm sure we've all had experiences where a certain object just didn't "feel" right. Didn't have the proper energy behind it

[sidheblessed]

I hope you do get to keep going, I have a feeling you will find a lot of growth and connection there. I suspect you may be encouraging Wolf to grow. ;)

This post makes me miss the regular Pagan meetups we had in Canberra, that ended last year. It was just good to connect with toher like-minded people in person. I can relate to the quite people who just seem to bring this calming, grounding energy.

[sidheblessed]

Oh and I forgot to say, I remember you hinting that you and Ash would like to rekindle your friendship - I'm glad that you're trying to do so and hope that you can be close again.