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    Gender roles in pagan faith

    After doing some reading, I have become confused about how important a persons gender is in doing group work.

    It seems that different writers place different levels of importance on gender and sexuality when it comes to practicing

    Just wondering how people feel about male versus female roles in practicing group worship or ceramony.
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    Importance will probably vary on the tradition and the ritual. Is there a specific tradition you're looking at?
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      Re: Gender roles in pagan faith

      What kind of things have you looked at? Personally I don't place much significance in gender. I have heard people express prejudices with some things, like "women can't be shamans" and "men can't be witches" but I've never seen anything to support such things myself. Most if what I have read has been very open to both genders as well.
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        Need to ask another clarifying question are you talking about gender (society's construction of how men and women are supposed to behave) or sex (as in biology). Because I never really could see why on earth gender ever mattered in any practise. (Can't really see it for sex either, but I suppose I could make a case for it if I had to.) My problem with both sex and gender as an influencing factor is that while my sex is female my dress, expression and general behaviour leans very much towards how society expects the male gender to behave and dress and in that respect have more than once been taken for a guy - especially on-line which has been the caue of no end of mirth on my part.

        But to give a brief answer to your question apart from Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca (and a couple of off shoot) plus Dianic Wicca I haven't really seen any practises or traditions that pay any attention to either one.
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          I know that more traditional Dianic paths often discriminate against transwomen. Is that what you were referring to?
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            Re: Gender roles in pagan faith

            Originally posted by jjhovind View Post
            After doing some reading, I have become confused about how important a persons gender is in doing group work.

            It seems that different writers place different levels of importance on gender and sexuality when it comes to practicing

            Just wondering how people feel about male versus female roles in practicing group worship or ceramony.
            As others have said, it depends entirely on the particular tradition and group that you are working with.

            Some traditions care. Some don't. But really the only important thing is that the energies that you are manipulating don't care.

            Personally I don't think it makes a difference. Personality, personal belief structures and personal skill are what influences what you can and can't do.

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              Re: Gender roles in pagan faith

              In Satanism, women are just there to satisfy the sexual needs of the man and to serve as a sexy sacrifice to badass demons.


              /sarcasm

              In my beliefs gender is just a biological setting, unrelated to more magical workings.

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