A Trickster Magnet

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Actual Norse Mythology:

Freya: *asleep in her bed when the phone rings. She picks up the reciever without saying a word.*

Odin: FREYA! YOU HAVE TO HELP US! LOKI AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE EXTREMELY FUNNY TO DISGUISE OURSELVES AS DWARVEN PROSTITUTES AND INFILTRATE THIS GIANT KING'S PALACE BUT NOW LOKI IS PREGNANT I'M ENGAGED TO SEVEN DIFFERENT GIANTS, THERE'S THIS HORSE! CALL THOR SO HE CAN HIT THE PROBLEM REALLY HARD AND-

receiver, unplugs the phone,

and goes back to sleep.*

Some devotional art for Loki and Odin.

Period blood is just blood. If someone next to you on the subway started bleeding, sure, you might get squeamish, but you'd want to help them right? Same with a bleed-through.

It's okay to be concerned about the hygiene of period blood, because after all, it's bodily fluids. It's just not okay to treat people who menstruate like they're dirty or shameful. You wouldn't treat someone with a nosebleed like that, right?

I imagine it's derived from how we talk about "Cultural Christianity" and I can see how they look very similar on their face, but cultural christianity is a very different issue with a much broader reach and deeper impact than Wicca. Christianity has been a dominating world force for centuries and is heavily embedded into many different cultures across the globe for generations. It permeates into things you wouldn't consider even remotely related to religious/spiritual practice. It bleeds into the political system. It's something marginalized traditions continually have to fight against on a broad scale in order to combat our own erasure and assimilation.

The occult and witchcraft communities are a subculture at most. Wicca is less than a century old and the overwhelming majority of Wiccans today were not raised Wiccan. Even if you didn't deliberately seek out Wicca, you almost certainly deliberately sought out discussions and information about witchcraft and the occult. Wiccanized conversations about How To Magic have little to no impact on marginalized people as a broader group, especially outside of those spaces.

Wicca isn't a full-fledged culture. It's a movement or a subgroup that is overrepresented within a larger subgroup. If you stepped away from the occult or decided you were done with "all religion," you'd probably shed most of your Wiccan influences very quickly since they are usually only directly-applicable to spiritual practice, but the Christian influences often permeate so deep that 90% of people don't even realize they're not just "the way things are." There is a huge, important difference between these two issues.