primalanimist

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Leave "pride movements" where they belong: politics and pageantry. Animism isn't a movement. It also doesn't need recruitment. There are no gods to satisfy. It is a personal understanding of what it means to be connected to everything. No. It's not at all necessary to have an awareness day for animism, an animism week or month, there are no collections to be made, no souls to save. We don't need to make pride events for every aspect of our being. They are nonsensical except for being another venue to profit off of a specific community. Every event attracts vendors (because they help pay for the event). So animism pride events would become gatherings to hawk "pseudo-spirituality" gimmicks to people who attend out of curiosity.

Lemmy servers aren't meant to be "big". I left lemmy.world for a smaller instance. If the admins of Lemmy.World want to just keep growing and thus increasing their costs, that is their choice. It doesn't mean all the users need to cough up money. THAT is capitalist propaganda. If the person who runs an instance can't afford to run it, then don't run it. You can escape from the system that is stacked against you, the system that demands you pay for every little experience you have, every little resource you use. You do that by giving and sharing with each other and quit acting like a vulture looking for scraps.

In general society, biological females can and do identify as women. You cannot just say "biological women don't exist" when you are just arguing a difference in accepted meaning between "woman" and "female".

The term two x chromosomes is not transphobic in any way. It is a community for cis-women. There are communities for trans-people as well. To try and declare that cis-women talking together about the struggles they face is hate speech only speaks to your own hate.

It's no different than if someone wanted to shut down a support for trans-women community by calling it hate-speech.

A trans-woman is a woman whose gender identity is not based on their biological gender. A cis-woman is a woman whose gender identity matches their biological gender...or their two x chromosomes.

If you find hate in that, then you should consider all communities that support any specific gender, cis and trans, to be hate speech since they are inherently exclusionary on their stated focus.

But that's absurd. Support for one group is not hating all others.

So if the community is abandoned, then do to it as any other abandoned community is managed. But it should not in any way be removed as hate.

Tolerance, OP. Everyone needs to have it.

I think of spirit as the essence of being. All things that exist have an essence of being just by existing. All things are following their intent. Whether it's a bird, a tree, a rock, water, people. It encompasses all we can perceive with our senses and things we can't. Wind, heat, these are energy and therefore exist and have an essence of being.