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... Imagine, if you will, a parallel universe in which there had been no Burning Man. One day, you read an article about people who gather in the middle of the
by rendall 5y ago
... Imagine, if you will, a parallel universe in which there had been no Burning Man.
One day, you read an article about people who gather in the middle of the desert and burn a woman in effigy and call their event Burning Woman. The article neutrally describes the event: gift economy, participatory culture, light art, costumes, shirt-cockers, maybe drugs. It's Burning Man, but in this universe, the exact same event just happens to be called Burning Woman.
Would there be accusations of misogyny, credible enough to shut down the event, or no?
- ajuc 5y agoThere is a somewhat similar tradition in Poland (without the gitf economy art and drugs). People burn an effigy of winter god called Marzanna on the first day of astronomical Spring (and/or throw it into a nearby river). It's common in most Slavic countries I think, but in some of them it vanished because catholic church was fighting it at one point. There are accusations of misogyny because that's the world we live in, but mostly nobody cares cause it's fun for kids. Ironically this pagan tradition comes from a religion that was much more woman-friendly than catholicism that replaced it.
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