Astroamerica - Not a Fan (a gay tarot rant)

[stella01904]

Originally Posted by AJ

in my search for a new after-Easter doorknob avatar I ran across this one today. Not sure why it came up in a spring search, but it would be perfect for this thread

Send it to the homophobe with a note that says not to let it hit him etc.
'Cause he might like it. Methinks he protests too loudly not to be hiding or repressing something.

[moderndayruth]

Originally Posted by the_surfacer

I've spent quite a bit of time now reading reviews at the site, to get an idea of the greater context of his Tarot reviews. What I see now is someone whose words make him look like someone terrified of any and all potential threats to his privilege.

Well, untill now we found out that author has problems with most of the branches of Christianity, with Wicca, Europeans, gay people and women in general... He is obviously misantrophe. But, what can we do? I don't know how to hack a site, i would if i knew btw. How can we remove all this hatred and negativity? I am not asking phylosophycally, but very practically, to whom else he might be reported?

[gregory]

Originally Posted by moderndayruth

How can we remove all this hatred and negativity? I am not asking phylosophycally, but very practically, to whom else he might be reported?

Perhaps the hosting company for his server ?

[6 Haunted Days]

While I don't agree with his sentiments, isn't it his site and can't he say what he believes/feels?

Who is the ultimate judge as to what is "correct", "right" or whatever to write on someone else's site? Who decides these things? Smacks of censorship, and freedom of speech issues.

Yes, I find his opinions pretty bad and offensive, but if we use the logic that something is offensive, negative and the like that we must do away with it, take it down, report him.....that logic could certainly apply to an opinion or belief you have or I do. And so, it snowballs. Who is the ultimate authority?

[gregory]

I guess it boils down to not slagging off other people...... You can hate gays all right, if you must (though how you can generalise about all of them having the same agenda beats me...) - but you don't have to post about it in public. If I posted a website saying what I thought of him and his views, I bet I'd be done for libel. (Or is it slander on line....?)

And especially you don't have to post demonstrable untruths - like that being gay is a lifestyle choice.

[the_surfacer]

I wonder if it would make him feel any better if I e-mailed him my Bisexual Feminist Pagan Agenda for today, which looks like:

1) Make every-six-hour visits to the cough syrup and Tylenol.
2) Definitely not take over the world.
3) Maybe, if I am feeling daring, get dressed and try to take over the mailbox.

[6 Haunted Days]

Originally Posted by the_surfacer

I wonder if it would make him feel any better if I e-mailed him my Bisexual Feminist Pagan Agenda for today, which looks like:

1) Make every-six-hour visits to the cough syrup and Tylenol.
2) Definitely not take over the world.
3) Maybe, if I am feeling daring, get dressed and try to take over the mailbox.

LMAO, especially the last one!! Had a day like that today.

[Saturness]

Originally Posted by Shade

That comment about Ceres being an inappropriate magician card bothered me as well. When I first looked at the Universal Goddess tarot I expected someone like Morgan le Fay or Circe on that card but when you really get into that deck's cosmology the choice makes perfect sense. The energy of creation and manifestation is perfectly embodied by Ceres. But in the reviews on that site there are many mentions of Christ being the most appropriate image for the magician. Anyone who thinks the magic of creation comes only from men can't possibly know very many women.

If giving birth...if creating a new life inside one's body...if the idea of one small small sperm and one small small egg making a whole new being...if any of these is NOT magic, than i really don't know what IS magic.

The man dislikes gays. The man dislikes women. The man is a rock, he's got a brain by accident. And i really hope rocks don't feel offended by this.

He dislikes anything that connects to things he can't understand or do or reach by himself. He's not gay, he doesn't know anything about gays, so he slanders them. He is not a women, he doesn't know anything about women, so he makes them less important.

Originally Posted by Goddess Tarot Review

Women complain that men are crude and coarse and brutal, but society does it to us, generation after generation. Between the ages of 12 and 20, a time when the boy/man can only follow the path laid in front of him. And that path is frequently filled with adolescent rage and military service, with the resultant horrifying brutality.

While I applaud what feminism has done for women, I'm not impressed by what it wants to do to men.

Pfft, as if teenager girls weren't very angry. They are much more angry than any teenage boy, trust me, i have one at home. Doesn't mean they'll be brutal, coarse and crude for the reast of their lives. They'll GROW UP, they'll make choices. Clearly what mister Reviewer-of-Astroamerica hasn't the balls to do.

Gays can choose their sexual option, but a man can't choose to leave the brutality behind. Now what's that? He makes it sound like men have no brains whatsoever...like they are sme kind of Pavlov dogs that learn things one way when they are 18 and never evolve from that.

Sad, really. Like i said, arrived too late in the brain department.

[SolSionnach]

Originally Posted by Marina

Gays can choose their sexual option, but a man can't choose to leave the brutality behind. Now what's that? He makes it sound like men have no brains whatsoever...like they are sme kind of Pavlov dogs that learn things one way when they are 18 and never evolve from that.

Sad, really. Like i said, arrived too late in the brain department.

That reminds me of the articles that "prove" that men are biologically incapable of monogamy. I guess my dad isn't a man then, huh?

Originally Posted by the_surfacer

I wonder if it would make him feel any better if I e-mailed him my Bisexual Feminist Pagan Agenda for today, which looks like:

1) Make every-six-hour visits to the cough syrup and Tylenol.
2) Definitely not take over the world.
3) Maybe, if I am feeling daring, get dressed and try to take over the mailbox.

I'm sorry, the_surfacer, you just made my day. teh funny!
OTOH, I'm very sorry that you are physiologically incapable of taking over the world today. Being sick sucks...

[gregory]

Originally Posted by sravana

That reminds me of the articles that "prove" that men are biologically incapable of monogamy. I guess my dad isn't a man then, huh?
(

Well, as the song goes, your mother will know..... Best ask her !!!!