According to Social Justice Internet, there is a “sexism problem in the modern witchcraft community” and you should be very, very, very concerned for all of the witches it’s impacting.
“Witchcraft may be a woman-centric lifestyle, but it still exists in a man-centric world — which means that sexism is, of course, an issue,” Jaya Saxena writes in her very important piece for the website Mic.
I know what you’re thinking: “Everyone knows that witchcraft is a ‘woman’ thing — how can it be sexist against women?” Well basically, Saxena explains, it’s because witchcraft is such a woman thing that it has such a problem with sexism against women.
Wait, what?
“Something happens to men when something isn’t about them,” she writes. “Used to being put at the center of the conversation they, for lack of a better term, freak out.”
Examples: Sometimes men go to witchcraft events to pick up women the same way they go to yoga class to pick up women. A few men in the community — yes, she herself acknowledges that it’s only a few of them — have dared to say that the fact that witchcraft focuses on women makes them feel left out.
Whoa! The horror!
#share#If that’s not bad enough, Saxena writes, “masculine and feminine energies are seen as opposing forces” in witchcraft — which is totally unfair to all of the gender-nonconforming witches out there.
Thankfully, a witch named Tarin Towers told Saxena that there are some sects that are “working on what it means to be a goddess-based tradition for . . . genderqueer people who don’t identify as either male or female.”
Phew. Glad to see someone is doing something about this! I can’t even imagine having to deal with such a serious problem in my own life.