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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 13d ago #7669242

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I suspect that "bæddel" and "wæpenwifestre" are possibly used in some places by the original speakers / authors, (in the material that's survived at least) to signify "woman who has the social role of a man", using a poetic kenning. "Wæpenwifestre" I suspect especially of this use.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I have no conclusive argument to this end; it is just my gut feeling, and it arose in my mind today as I read Ursula K LeGuin's "Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" theanarchistlibrary.org/mirror/u/uk/...

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The material in which these terms survive are stories, recorded by men, from story and history traditions that are heavily leaning towards a Campbellian Hero's Journey and its attendant phallic symbolism. So especially, "Weapon wife" as a kenning … "tastes" like an Eowyn, rather than a hermaphrodite

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

But also it arose in my mind that perhaps by working with these archetypal framings, an approach to toxic masculinity might be found.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

G*merGate et al is ascribable to a lack of modern culture to supply fulfilling meaning to men, and that it is promised to them a Hero's Journey, but the Hero's Journey necessitates a lot of "collateral loss", and men — while they accept the Hero's Journey bargain, reject becoming collateral losses

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

This is the esoteric, occult "Social Contract" they feel is broken - the one that doesn't deliver to them a constant Hero's Journey, where they are all relieved of being temporarily embarrassed millionaires, where they conquer, assert, squash, colonise, capture

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

It is why they have pockets in their slacks, and avoid handbags, purses, carrier bags. Why all such bags they use must be leather, or camo; why they all must be rigidly rectilinear, or at minimum "upon my stick a'wobblin'" (Rocky Road to Dublin, Irish jig)

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Round, curvilinear, amorphous; these are the characteristics of the feminine, the characteristics of the gatherer, the characteristics of the homemaker and of the womb. They are not There And Back Again; they are the coordinates of the community and the cooperative.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Thus, a particularly feminine-coded view of social media is of communities, of network graphs, of connections & of boundaries, and freedom of (and freedom FROM) association as fundamental functions and fundamental rights

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

A wæpenwifestre may, kenningly, be a moderator - emphasising and building connections, cutting off and guarding against the unwelcome incursions.

It is then little wonder why so many trans women take up social moderation roles, and why toxic masculinity loathes and fears us for doing so

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

If their narrative arc demands conquest, no wonder they cry censorship when denied incursion, and the fulfillment of that story shape

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Take your muddy shoes off before you come in the house

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Who are you to waste even a single drop of water in this place

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I did not invite the Emperor for tea

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):