Hellenic Problems

Read the comments

Seriously, read them.  He’s blaming victims, telling a transwoman that her antiandrogen meds are somehow failing and making her act like a “man”, and, in a side-thread about the public toilet “debate”, thumbs his nose at the facts to say that the “safety of [his] female friends and family” is more important than a trans woman’s feelings.

Aphrodite Pandemos is the epithet for Aphrodite of everyone/all the people and the poet Sappho, who was definitely bisexual, had a close relationship with her.

Hellenic Problems #144:

How does identifying as an eclectic pagan have anything to do with not understanding how a woman can be devoted to a male deity or vice-versa?

What even just happened here?

I don’t understand

what

I mean, if anything, I would think that’d more likely be a sexist comment rather than a sentiment shared exclusively by eclectic pagans (who, by the way, all seem to have their own views since they’re, you know, eclectic). My roommate and I were discussing this earlier. (For example, it’s the kind of thing like a man saying “Oh, you don’t see many female devotees of Thor because he’s all manly and shit!”. But the thing is, Thor is worshipped as a Protector God, and that’s pretty great to have as an ally because there are these things in the world called rape and murder that are more often directed toward females, and it’s nice to know your attacker might possibly get a lightning bolt to the face or an equivalent consequence. I dunno bro, but chilling with a Protector God sounds like a good idea.)

I just don’t see how this thought of “h0w can a w0man dev0te herself t0 male deity? nahhHh not p0ssible!!!1!” is exclusive to eclectic paganism.

Hellenic Problems #147:

On September 18th local antifas marked the first anniversary since the murder of Killah P (stage name of Pavlos Fyssas) in Greece. He was attacked by a group of Golden Dawn members, a Greek fascist party, and was stabbed to death. Watching over the events, the police made no effort to intervene, the close ties between Golden Dawn and the Greek police never more obvious. More background on the murder can be read here.

This, of course, is not an isolated incident. Just one of countless lives stolen by the forces of fascism and white supremacy all over the globe. Whether it is at the hands of a neo-nazi, a police officer, or neighborhood watch vigilante, they are all manifestations of the same force.

Pavlos, and all the other stolen lives, live on in our hearts.