Castration culture runs through Western civilization from Homer’s Odyssey to popular ballads to Shakespeare’s plays to modern academic work. Men must rise! … Read the post castration: sexual violence against men historically entrenched
In ancient Roman religion, Attis & castrated men Galli served the Great Mother goddess Cybele. Jerome and Augustine condemned this ritual gender oppression. … Read the post Jerome & Augustine valued men’s sexuality against Galli servants
In Gulinus’s palace in St Patrick’s Purgatory, a medieval knight in love with Gulinus’s daughter suffers penal tortures in a vision of unfruitful misandry. … Read the post Gulinus tortured knight for love in misandristic, unfruitful vineyard
The medieval Visio Ludovici of St. Patrick’s purgatory recognized men’s sexuality, rejected castration, and affirmed Jesus’s saving masculine incarnation. … Read the post honor masculine incarnation for alternative to castration culture
Transwomen suffer historically entrenched, systemic gender discrimination & exclusion exemplified in ancient myths of Iphis & Ianthe and Leucippus & Daphne. … Read the post discrimination against transwomen: Iphis & Ianthe, Leucippus & Daphne