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> At 11:30 PM 6/16/98 +0000, Joe E. Dees relayed?:
> >
> >Gender and Nature in Contemporary Neopaganism
> >
> > By Salamantis
>
> (big snip)
>
> It's interesting how this text starts out representing the 'ecofeminist'
> ideology from the oh-so-very-proper-scientific-paper third-person
> grammar (you can almost see the quotes around the sloganeering expressions
> and patented vitriolic rhetoric). Add to this a vaguely interesting
> (though incomplete and thoroughly myopic) presentation of a perceived
> cultural pattern, and you almost miss how the pedantic becomes preachy,
> smoothly shifting gears into a quasi first-person-assertive:
>
> >Revolt against the
> >predominance of this divine chain of being has followed, and the
> >guerillas have not been exclusively female. Some men have come to
> >feel cramped and pigeonholed in the role of overseer on the domination
> >plantation and degraded and ashamed of what is expected of them there.
> > They have therefore joined the rebellion against the JCIZ gender
> >hierarchy, agreeing with Martin Luther King that you can't hold folks
> >down in a ditch unless you climb down in there with them. As women
> >and men come to the practical conclusion that only equality of rights,
> >responsibilities and opportunities works, however, they also tend to
> >come to the spiritual conclusion that this is true because the sexes
> >equally approach divinity. This, however, would require deity to be
> >comprised of masculinity and femininity in equal measure, which of
> >course directly contradicts the JCIZ.
>
> .....et cetera, et cetera, ad-fucking-nauseum. What makes me ill is
> the number of people I can see falling for this tired old trick. I
> wonder what motivates this "Salamantis" (one-word name; how "earthy").
> If he were male, and gay........hmmmmmm.
>
> Dan
Male and straight, Dan. Divorced. Salamantis = Salamander (fire
elemental) + Mantis (hood worn by scholars and clerics).
Translation: Hee Hoo Haa Learned by Being Burned.