• Genius@lemmy.zip
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    Damn women appropriating witchdom. Excluding boywitches just reaffirms the patriarchy’s gendering of magic. It’s re-inventing the same gender roles.

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      Neither the WvP subreddit nor the Discord excludes men from identifying as witches or from participating in discussions.

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        Then what does women-centered mean in practice? Is it just a nothing label?

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          Woman-centered is not an absolute. One does not have to be part of a single characteristic of a group to have a stake in it, to be an ally, an advocate, a partner, a family member, among countless other scenarios.

          I would suggest reading up on intersectionality.

          By the way, all of this is covered in the subreddit sidebar, including in an FAQ in the wiki.

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      I’m sorry, what?

      It’s women-centered because it’s “against patriarchy”… not because it’s witchy. And they are trans & queer inclusive as well.

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        I think it would be even more against patriarchy if it was enby centered. They should change that.

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          You need to stay away from feminism and enby activism entirely until you’ve humbled yourself and seriously sat with how problematic this take is.

          You’re not helping anybody with that. Least of all enbies/trans people. And not just because it makes us look bad either, though that’s certainly part of it.

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            I don’t know how problematic this take is, and since you can’t explain how it is, I’m convinced you don’t either. You’re just having an emotional reaction to deviation from the gender binary’s norms, which construct womanhood as the opposite of manhood.