Guest guest Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 >Actually, to quote Z Budapest "Many lesbians are Dianics, but most >Dianics are straight women with children. Go figure." Thank you for setting straight (whoops!) the record. I'd add that lesbians definitely were leaders in forging the early Dianic movement. Our very presence is invariably taken by some as making the whole thing suspect. The charge of man-hater is an old one, but think how Hindus get called idolators, or Tantra a sex cult and perversion, and you can see how such stereotypes obscure the reality. As someone who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for decades, I can tell you there are certainly plenty of guys running around looking for free sex under the rubric of Tantra, even some heads of ashrams: should this define the traditions themselves? The impetus for the Dianic movement came from the unreconstructed sexism of the society at large, mainstream religion, as well as within the neopagan movement itself. Women had been barred from public religious leadership for many centuries, even millennia, and theologians in the Abrahamic religions insisted that Deity must be imaged as masculine. The name Dianic is not used as much as previously, since it implies a European tradition, specifically a Roman one, and the pagan Goddes movement has really branched out to embrace a broader range of ethnicities. For this reason it's not my term of choice. We need names for things, but things continue to evolve. blessings, Max -- Max Dashu Suppressed Histories Archives Global Women's Studies http://www.suppressedhistories.net Paintings of bold and spirited women http://www.maxdashu.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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