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@snowcat9308 Literally 😭 Apparently Jesus and his friends were the only people to ever come together to eat 💀

How many times do I have to say in one video that I am only talking about the Christians who feel targeted by this and not about Christians in general? Halos have been depicted since before Christianity existed. The earliest examples of a disc halo come from the 300s BCE in the religious art of ancient Iran. The first halo in Christian art only comes from the 5th century CE. Reeks of lack of religious and historical knowledge.

@@queerpagan That's purely bad faith. This halo, in this context, serves to associate the one who wears it with Jesus. If not, tell me why it's there.

so desperate for persecution.

@hollocarpe7652 If you have ever watched any prominent dragshow, you'd know that people tend to wear elaborate headpieces. Just because you see a person in the middle of a table setting and think it's somehow Jesus, does not mean that that's the case.

I'm very glad you enjoyed it! Welcome!

No, Israel has been "mowing the grass" in Gaza for 70 years. They are an apartheid state and they need to be held accountable.

You mean Israel is completely wiping Palestine off a map.

@diobrando4938 The state of Israel has been created on Palestinian ground, with the intentions of provinding a safe space for Jews after World War II. Unfortunately, what Israel is doing to Palestinians right now is surprisingly similar to what happened to them during the Holocaust. The existence of a terrorist group should not give a state the right to target innocent citizens... All this is actually pretty relevant because it's the two other Abrahamic religions fighting for their right to live on their "Holy Land" in the Middle East. Because some old book promised that land to them (spoiler: the Bible).

terrorism is a label western imperialist nations staple to every group who resist their occupation, exploitation and neo-colonization - you've had a lot of time to figure this out

@Ole_Rasmussen What 😭 I am only saying how far people are willing to go when they feel their religion is being attacked. Which is exactly what happened in the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Making a visual depiction of Mohammed is a direct attack on Islam, since it is not allowed in that religion. Terrorist attacks are not representative of a whole religion, just as these Christians being angry at the opening ceremony are not. But it still shows how far people are willing to go to defend their religious beliefs.

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!!

Yup! Obviously there are some vehemently anti-Christian modern pagans too, but most just want to live in peace with eachother and the world. Maybe it's because paganism does not really rely on "converting people", anyone can become a pagan if they so choose. Also, like the Romans, if you already believe in multiple deities then one more is really nothing crazy, while if you only believe in one God, there could not possibly be more...

Maybe they also really enjoyed being in the spotlight for quite a while worldwide (Elections coming up and such) and now suddenly the world is focused on the Olympics instead of them, so obviously something must be wrong with the Olympics 😭. Man I'm glad there are still some relatively sane people left in the States, but it would obviously be better if more people had access to a factually correct education.

Honoring ancient history is apparently "too woke" now 😅

@@queerpagan as well as all cis-women boxing apparently.

@@toddharig8142 Oh yeah, that whole thing. If someone does not conform to western beauty standards and is good at the sport she's been training her whole life, apparently the only explanation is being trans???

@@queerpagan I hate that I have to share this world with people who can't just let people be who they want to be. Also what kind of person doesn't like a good muscle mommy?

@@queerpagan Honestly as a trans person myself I have mixed feelings about trans people on the Olympics. On one hand, they are finally validaded and all, but on the other hand, so many people might lie just to get an unfair adventage. I'm personally really not knowledgeable about sports, I mean, I have no idea about the rules and how they work, so I'd never consider myself as any type of an authority on this topic. However, I think some experts from different social and political circles shouod just sit down and have a debate about to how to play it out. I'm curious hoy you (and other people here) feel about it, tho.

@@wlarsen70 They only want freedom for themselves, their religion and political beliefs, ignoring that other people exist too... ugh

@bregnevakker5404 Well, it's not really the artist's fault that people misinterpret their work. That happens all the time. Christianity takes inspiration in their imagery, teachings and holidays from other religions, so it should not come as a shock that a scene from Greek mythology has some similarities to Christianity. Even if it is still the biggest religion in the Western world, does not mean it does or should have any authority to criticize and censor what a director decides for their actors to perform. These same people who keep saying other (generally queer, left-wing) people are "easily offended snowflakes" find ways to be offended even when it's not about them...

@@queerpagan Hmmm... for me, everybody has the right to criticize and don't consume whatever they doesn't like, because they are simply showing their opinion and reacting against what they don't like. And the "easily offended" problem is... well... complicated: I think people should try to make a rule for the game: or they both can offend and go mad because the other said and makes certain things, or no one should... Or balance it, and make a decent dialogue instead of cancelling and mocking each other... but a strong drama sells better than a calm conversation between two people who think differently like the one we are having right now. 😓

@@MareaRayneOleander thank you!! Found it on Vinted :)

@@julieredmond8271 There is absolutely nothing wrong with that! Unfortunately, that was not for me :)

@AlatheD I also did not know this before, learned about it a few days ago! In Poland we still call the Seine "Sekwana" so it did make a lot of sense to me!

I can only begin to imagine how hard it must be for you to exist in a household like that... It's so horrible when people, especially as close as your parents, deny the facts and insist on invalidating you. I hope you're holding on out there. Much love ❤️

@@queerpaganThanks for the comment. I truly appreciate it.

Unfortunately that's true, Christianity still has a big part of the world in a chokehold. Statistically seen, it is not growing as rapidly as it once used to, so that is something. While not an atheist myself, I will definitely join in on being against organized religions.

@@queerpagan the world is overrun with organised religion

Yeah that's kinda the point. Pre-Christian paganism has never been a religion in the same way that Abrahamic religions have been. The sources we have for pre-Christian beliefs come to us translated and interpreted through mostly Christian and Arabic sources, modified for a religous audience to understand. That's why modern paganism has so many Christian influences. Because the people practicing it do not have much else to base it off.

@@queerpagan fair enough. But I recall you mentioning in another video that you don’t care if modern paganism is historically accurate. Why is it different in this case?

Queer people can and do have children. Bisexual people exist, some trans men decide to get pregnant, in-vitro fertilization, surrogacy and egg/sperm donors exist. Parades and big companies making their logo rainbow for a month is not acceptance. Actual social acceptance of all sorts of people is what is needed, not rainbow capitalism. Besides, as I have literally said in this video, you would have heard it if you listened, is that heteronormativity is also pushed onto times and cultures where neither "heterosexuality" nor "homosexuality" was a thing. It is normalized to assume everyone has always been straight, and this can absolutely be challenged through queer perspectives.

@@starborgceo I know right? Great song!

You are aware that trans Ukrainians and Russians exist right? War is not going to stop people from being queer.

@rn6345 So. A few things. How do we know about the society of pre-Christian Europe? Predominantly Christian and sometimes Arabic written sources. Written by outsiders who visited these regions for specific political reasons. All the written laws that we know from Scandinavia come from the period where Christianity was already introduced. I'm not implying that's a "bad" thing, since words like good or bad are relative anyway. I'm saying that we, in modern times, look at pre-Christian pagan religion through a monotheistic, Christian lense. Because that's all we have, apart from the archeological record, which can only be interpreted based on things we know or think we know. Obviously Christianity did not 'invent' the gender binary. Christianity barely invented anything. It just took and copied from other cultures and religions, starting of as a small sect of judaism in the Roman Empire. Which did not stop it from developing into this big world religion that it is today.

@@rn6345 Also, just because some terms like "gender roles" or "gender" itself are modern terms, does not mean they have been irrelevant through history. There are cases of people who we would now call trans, or at least gender noncomforming, throughout all od human history, across many cultures. Look no further than the Roman Emperor Elagabalus, who prefered to be adressed with female titles and seen as a woman. Or look at the Greeks, where homosexual relationships were not only accepted, but sometimed even encouraged. Or look at Loki, who changed shape and gender. Just because he himself did not state that he had some sort of queer identity, does not mean that this cannot be interpreted that way. People are easily assumed heterosexual and conforming on the basis of much less evidence.

@@queerpagan You are very correct about the sources we have. We don't know the truth because we don't have any direct sources. So we have 2 options: 1. We draw conclusions from the sources we do have, or 2. Make suppositions based on, frankly, not much. We can admit that we don't know how pre-Christian Norse people viewed people who broke the gender binary (including non-heterosexuality) but that it was likely not socially acceptable, or we can just imagine and state whatever we want about that culture because there are no direct sources. I prefer to take the scholarly approach and go with 1. As for Christianity: every culture and societal development builds on the ones that existed before it, so it not "inventing" anything isn't really a fault. Every culture adapted this religion to its own norms and mentalities. In Scandinavia, it destroyed things (almost everything related to their pre-Christian faith, unfortunately) and it added a set of rules which took a while until they caught on (which is why I believe Scandinavia at the time of the written sources we have isn't very different from the pre-Christian one). But many of these rules were beneficial for the development of society (such as writing, education, and protecting women against sexual abuse).

@@queerpagan We can interpret things however we want, but it doesn't make it true. The best we can do is draw conclusions based on the sources we have and the ethos of those societies. And not just read a sentence out of context, but understand the entire context and the society. Looking at the sources we have on Elagabalus, we know that he was very out of the ordinary (the only person to be described as such), and also that he was hated for the things he did (he was killed and is presented very negatively, so his choices and attitudes are by far from condoned by society). The only account describing him as what we'd now call "trans" also describes him as a murderer, religious fanatic and rapist. Is this account true, or is it fabricated? If it's true, he's definitely not a role-model for anyone and was a clearly a disturbed individual. As for homosexual relationships being accepted by the Greeks, were they? Sure, in the whole of Greek antiquity (1000+ years and a very vast area with different customs) there are a few accounts of homosexuality in a positive or neutral light (and even encouraged by Plato in his beautiful descriptions of same-sex love), but in the vast majority of accounts it is condemned and disputed (like the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus which some ancient Greek sources present as homosexual and others as friendship). So, overall, ancient Greek society was similar to ours in this respect (only more violent, more "masculine" and way worse in how they treated women). I love history, especially the Viking age, but we've come a long way in tolerance towards people who stray from the norm, and I certainly don't wish to go back to those times. Hence I don't like idealizing them or using aspects of them out of context in order to legitimize present-day ideas.

Also, I forgot to mention that a lot of what we generally refer as homosexuality in Greek antiquity is actually a relationship between an older man and an underage boy, and the younger man was often a servant. I'm very sure not all cases was like this, but a lot of the descriptions we have of homosexual relationships refer to that. So it's not a very pretty picture.

@@awakened3651 Dear angry transphobe. Those issues can happen to anyone, and your claims are wildly incorrect. First of all, trans people with access to the right healthcare are under supervision of an endocrinologist and get their blood checked regularly, which helps keep an eye on hormone levels. Secondly, things like vaginal atrophy and infertility can be combatted, or are irrelevant if a person decides to get surgery on their genitals. Hairloss is inevitable in every single human with age, and depends on genetics. Acne is never permanent, and there are tons of treatments for it if it persists. Lastly, some people have better things to do than procreating and breastfeeding children. If that's everything there is to life to you, that's honestly sad. I hope you find a better hobby.

@@queerpagan Spoken like a true adolescent with no life experience but who claims to know it all.

@@queerpagan Not 'phobic' of anything. Not afraid of, only afraid for. The world has done such incredible wrongs to the growing autistic population.

Why do you keep mentioning autism? Being vocally against a minority group IS phobia.

@@awakened3651 Surprisingly, my parents and further family actually are not psychopats and accept their children for who they are!

@@awakened3651 And obviously this video focuses on me? It's my video, talking about my experience. That's kinda the point of a personal blog on social media. Talking about your own experience lets someone explain themselves the best they can, and can help others feel represented because they relate. Everyone's experience is different, why should I generalize?

@@queerpagan It's called radical acceptance on your parent's part. You admit in your earlier video 'pre-transition' that your parents were not 'supportive' when you 'came out' as a young teen with autism and a typically comorbid serious eating disorder. And even the 'clinic' you went to stalled by claiming they put you on the 'list'. Because autism is so demanding and hyper focused on special interests while also disconnected from the physical self, and the world now facilitates every 'trans' demand, parents have no choice but to stand back and watch their beloved child be facilitated in their self destruction. No, your parents are not psychopaths, they are devastated heroes who have chosen to extend their love and connection to their child, regardless of whatever external costume that child is hiding behind. Guaranteed having to stand back in silence and watch has taken years off their lives.

@@queerpagan Narcissism will do that. Make a new and separate video discussing your perspective of the impact your autism and choices have had on your family relationships throughout your life. Explain yourself in that context in a personal blog on social media. Be specific to yourself, don't generalize. You could even do a video with your parents discussing the impacts on your family including their perspective. No one is raised in a vacuum.

You know what's narcissistic? Thinking you personally have some kind of authority on a stranger on the internet, and that your words would somehow impact their actions and their content. Get a better hobby.

@@awakened3651 You're just looking for signs that someone is convincing themselves. I am not convincing anyone of anything. You can take away from a video like this whatever you want, that doesn't make it true!

Maybe they just crave understanding like we all do?

@@awakened3651 good. Don't have children.

@@JennaGetsCreative this!! But you know, they will probably never agree that sex and gender are separate things 😭

what is non-binary?

@@himalayansalt32 non-binary is a term used by anyone whose gender identity falls outside of or between the terms "male" and "female".

@@himalayansalt32 It means my experience of gender is neither entirely "woman" nor entirely "man." Some non-binary people are a consistent blend somewhere on the spectrum with those at either end, some slide along this spectrum ("gender fluid"), some are always androgynous or experience no gender ("agender") and everything else in between. Most specifically I am a "demi-girl." I'm mostly agender, but every once in a while I have distinctly fem days. I use both she/her and they/them pronouns and I'm not bothered by people defaulting to just she/her as long as they're not doing so maliciously. I acknowledge that I was born in a female body and I'm fine with that, but I wish I had a less curvy body that I could dress more andro. I have no desire to seek out elective surgeries to alter my body, but if I ever get breast cancer I'm opting for a full double mastectomy without reconstruction.

YEAH LMAO Any oppressed woman could have just identified as non-binary so they wouldn't have been abused BASED ON THEIR SEX That's probably why all these tribes are incredibly progressive and feminist as hell and sex discrimination isn't a thing what were those dum dum cis women doing all that time, could have just identified as 3rd gender and have a good life

@@AnaLuisa-ls9gi thank you! 🖤

@@Fnafhills5484 do I have to? I got a few pendants, mjöllnir included, but I don’t really like wearing jewellery since I have an active lifestyle and it gets in the way.

So rings and necklaces are a no, only on special occasions XD

You don’t have to I was wondering

When women say things like that, they are generally refering to a specific type of men, cisgender, heterosexual men. Maybe not even specific men, but just the patriarchy in general. As a trans man, I know that I am now participating in society as a (white) man, which means I will be privileged to a degree. However, I am still part of multiple minority groups and know what it's like to be discriminated against. Basically, if a woman would say something like that, I would probably not feel targeted because I have not done these things that make men shit, but I also do acknowledge that being trans absolutely does not make you a better person and there are trans guys out there participating in toxic masculinity or being dicks to women. It's a multifaceted problem for sure.

@@queerpagan thank you for your response. I personally can't stand sexism, it doesn't matter who it's against. Problem is comments like that are hard to defend against. ☹️ Again, thank you for your honesty and response.

@@user-tx2gi7ls7h Why would I not like comments that support my belief? Do you disagree with people who agree with you? And how would you know I’m deleting comments? Surely them being there would suggest that they are, in fact, not deleted 🤯🤯🤯

@@shweefranglais7900 I’m glad I could be of help :)

If you believe no one is ever comfortable with their gender, boy do I have some news for you. I hope you figure yourself out and stop pushing your own frustrations onto others! Obviously you don't have to be trans to not live up to gender norms, that doesn't mean trans people should not exist. Wtf.

@@queerpagan Way to miss the underlying point... Try reading the whole thing next time to stop yourself making foolish comments.

@@ambientjohnny forgive me for not caring more about your ramblings, I have a life outside of caring way too much about how people decide to live their life.

@@queerpagan "I have news for you" please do share!

Thank you! I really like the whole history of the inscription on my back too! And it's a pretty recent discovery (made public in 2020) :)

@@queerpagan that's really awesome ! The quote seems perfect for you as well 👌 😀

@@KandisXxxoh for sure! It definitely resonates with who I am!

That's why I always use words like "normal" in quotation marks. Like you said, that would suggest queer people are somehow not normal. However, I would say there is a difference between "normal" and "the norm" - as in, the assumed default position, not necessarily as positively loaded as "normal", which suggests the negative opposite "not normal". I hope that makes sense. While we should not criticize anyone for falling out of certain norms, it does not immediately follow that queer people or other minorities are considered the norm, the standard. Unfortunately we are not, and saying we are "just like everyone else" does have a slight assimilation feeling to it. I am perfectly fine existing outside of certain set ideas of western society. I acknowledge they are there, and that they are socially constructed.

@@queerpagan ☺ thanks for replies, am just about to read them now. I'm taking this all kind of more seriously now and trying to be a good ally because the rhetoric and attacks against /trans identities is stepping up and ... people can exhibit some NASTY behaviour

@@gonnfishy2987 you are doing great work as an ally, thank you! It's honestly sad to see that accepting someone's decision to... live? Still has to be seen as something praiseworthy but it really is. I, and other trans creators, get so many hateful comments, so it's really refreshing to see something a bit more positive ❤️

@@queerpagan oof, “accepting someone’s decision to ?live” … hits that place 🥲 … i wish there was a more direct and compelling way people could share the rawness of their experience and the understanding which it formed. [rambling to myself] In the end, people aren’t all that removed from each other or different. I guess though, that’s how hugboxes/echo chambers form which DO accentuate boundaries “me:like this, you: not like this” 🩶 big love. Im a bit emotionally vulnerable right now, less internet for me! Xx

@@wlarsen70 Thank you!

@@MareaRayneOleander I could do that for sure, maybe also about body modification in general and what it means to me and the world :)

Yup... they loved the Scandinavians as the perfect examples of the "Aryan race". Actually frenology (the study of human skulls in order to prove racial differences) came to the Nāzis from the Institute For Racial Biology in... Sweden... So the Scandinavians were definitely not innocent either. They have also used their own symbols and history in questionable ways...

Aaa thank you!!

@@AlkemyFrost-ju4hx hahaha fair, I love cats too (obviously) 😌