Goddess and gender identity

[mmaestro]

This is a post that I've been mulling over for, oh, at least a good 6 months. Possibly longer. I'm still not sure that I'm going to be expressing well what it is I want to say, so buyer beware, OK?

The surge, in recent years decades, of pagan, wiccan, neo-pagan and modern "Gaian Earth Mother", as well as more controversial views of Mary, Mother of

Comments

well...

[carkeysimp]

I'm not offended - so there

[sholeh]

Interesting side note...in the Baha'i Faith God is neither masculine nor feminine (which makes sense, because assigning a gender to God would be limiting, which negates the whole idea of God anyway as a supreme force!). The Persian language (which much of the Writings were originally written in) is not gender specific, which is very handy. Maybe something similar should be developed for the English language. ;-)

[itchyfidget]

Nope, not offended here.

Any behaviour/thought pattern that attempts to pigeonhole either sex is, frankly, tedious.