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Never once does it cross her mind that there may be taboos that don't allow for a woman to play an
instrument meant EXCLUSIVELY for men, or that her Goddess is a killer, no matter how many flowers
she puts on her, or that totem animals are friends and companions and reminders, not deities. None of this
seems to matter. If talked to about it, she will pass it off as being Eclectic, which is a good thing, right? I
mean, let's forget that the Romans came in and killed the Celts, conquered them and that the Roman
legionnaires called upon Mars to help them do it, and let's forget that the Celtic Goddess of War was
called upon to help the Celts defend themselves, let's put Mars and the Morrigon into the same ritual,
they are both deities of War, right? Let's forget that Loki is a god that caused the Midgard serpent, and
that the same serpent causes Thor's death in Ragnarók let's put them together in the same ceremony to
promote peace on Earth since they USED to be friends.
This attribute pairs nicely with the lack of research.
(And thanks to Lord Kern The God of Corn and Magazine Subscriptions for this next one:)
12) An inability to take constructive criticism constructively.
They always take it personal. Any criticism is a bad thing. You are surfing the Internet, find a fluffy
page, see the HUGE factual errors about 9 million dying in the Burning Times, send a polite e-mail to the
website owner in question suggesting that they may want to check out THIS LIST of 50 pages from
reputable people who have come up with about 50,000 victims, and you get a nasty gram back. Come on,
this has happened to YOU surely.
It always confuses the living daylights out of me since the initial e-mail was polite to the point of being
subservient and servile, but because I dared criticize their page, I MUST be one of those oppressors who
can't stand that she's putting up the truth on her page. Her Priestess said that 9 million died and logic no
longer enters the picture.
And God help you if you are actually making fun of them on another site to blow off steam. I'm a
member of a group who posts different pagan sites on a list for members to rate as to the quality of the
writing, their knowledge of Paganism and Judeo-Christianity and how verifiable their facts are, as well as
website design. Admittedly, many of the sites that are reviewed are fluffy and some are really ragged on,
but to be fair the good sites, no matter how bad the beliefs expressed, are usually rated highly.
But when the fluffy under examination finds out their site is a "bad" one, they join up, review their OWN
site, and rate it highly (duh) and then get 20-50 of their close friends to do the same thing, and call us
meanies all the time, telling us how we are wrong, bad, evil, LHPers, idiots, one-true-wayish, how we are
misogynistic, repressive, hidebound and so on till we just want to strangle them all. The owner of the site
that does this has shared a few of the more choice e-mails and they are frightening in their fluffishness.
Point out ONE error and the world ends.
But it's not just constructive criticism that is taken so wrongly(thanks Noddy for this), it's ANY comment
that can be seen as critical. For instance, try this test.
Join a list or just a public chat.
Wait for someone to ask a question like "I don't like kids. Does this affect my relationship with the
Goddess?"
Let the fluffies have their say.
Take a position counter to what they took (like saying "Not at all.
The Goddess understands that there are some who don't feel the call to be mothers and fathers. Good for
you that you know this, instead of being a bad parent.")
Watch the list go ape-shit all over you. (have an asbestos suit handy) Get stock in the manufacturers of
Fire-Extinguishers (you will be rich) The flame war will be unlike anything you have ever seen. You will
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