Intersex people can identify their Gender as: Male, Female, Trans, third gender, Genderqueer, Non-binary, Etc.
“Being non-binary is also not the same as being intersex; most intersex people identify as either male or female.” ref
Intersex people can identify their Sexual orientation as: heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, pansexual or polysexual, asexuality, Etc.
“Androphilia describes sexual attraction to masculinity; gynephilia describes the sexual attraction to femininity.” ref
Homophobia, Transphobia, and Genderqueerphobia Hurts Us All
H.O.M.E. Honor, Open, Motivate, Embrace
The following writing was largely adapted from How Homophobia Hurts Everyone and How Homophobia Hurts Everyone: A Theoretical Foundation by “Warren J. Blumenfeld”
In today’s society, the personal sexual or gender orientation of an individual who lives openly as themselves has been an area of conflict for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, trans, genderqueer, or intersex individual.
“Genderqueer” (alternatively non-binary) is a catch-all category for gender identities outside of the gender binary whether internal, external or both that expresses other than typical man and woman, thus outside Cis-normativity.
“Intersex” is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical gender.
In the following areas one can see the difficulties that can come about dealing with Homophobia, Transphobia, and Genderqueerphobia:
Homophobia, Transphobia, and Genderqueerphobia: Are fear, hatred, disgust, mistreatment, or intolerance of same-sex intimacy relationships, “atypical” gender behavior, having an overlap of, or indefinite lines between, gender identity and sexual and romantic orientation, and/or people who identify as or are perceived as LGBTQI. Homophobia, transphobia, and genderqueerphobia refer to the many ways in which people are oppressed on the basis of sexual and gender orientation. Sometimes homophobia, transphobia, and genderqueerphobia is intentional, where there is a clear intent to hurt lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, genderqueer, or intersex people. Homophobia, transphobia, and genderqueerphobia can also be unintentional, where there is no desire to hurt anyone, but where people are unaware of the consequences of their actions. Institutional and cultural homophobia, transphobia, and genderqueerphobia is often referred to as heteronormativity/heterosexism and cis-normativity/cissexism.
Heterosexism and cissexism: are beliefs in the inherent superiority of heterosexuality and typical” cis-normal gender behavior, thereby, it’s right to dominance. Carries with it the assumption that everyone one meets is heterosexual and cisnormal.
Personal homophobia, transphobia, and genderqueerphobia: is prejudice. It is the personal belief that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, genderqueer, or intersex people are sinful, immoral, sick, and inferior to typical male and female, cis-normative heterosexuals, or incomplete women and men.
Prejudice towards any group is learned behavior; people have to be taught to be prejudiced. Personal homophobia, transphobia, and genderqueerphobia is sometimes experienced as the fear of being perceived as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, genderqueer, or intersex. This fear can lead to trying to “prove” one’s self NORMAL like everyone else to fit in.
Anyone, regardless of their sexual or gender orientation, can experience personal homophobia, transphobia, and genderqueerphobia.
Interpersonal homophobia, transphobia, and genderqueerphobia: is the fear, dislike, or hatred of people believed to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, genderqueer, or intersex. This hatred or dislike may be expressed by name-calling, verbal and physical harassment, and individual acts of discrimination or by the rejection of friends, co-workers, and/or family members.
Institutional homophobia, transphobia, and genderqueerphobia: refers to the many ways in which government, business, religious institutions, and other institutions and organizations discriminate against people on the basis of sexual or gender orientation. These organizations and institutions set policies, allocate resources, and maintain both written and unwritten standards for the behavior of their members in ways that discriminate.
Cultural homophobia, transphobia, and genderqueerphobia: refers to social standards and norms that dictate that being heterosexual and cisnormal are better or more moral than being lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or genderqueer, and that everyone is heterosexual, cisnormal or should be.
Examine the major conflicts for this population
LGBTQI people are regularly attacked for no other reason than their attackers fear and homophobia, transphobia, and genderqueerphobia.
Most people act out their fears of LGBTQI in non-violent yet still oppressive ways, more common ways in the public arena. Relatives often shun or no longer acknowledge their lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, genderqueer, or intersex family members; co-workers are distant and cold to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, genderqueer, or intersex employees; or people stay away from asking about the individual’s life or acquaintances outside the work place.
Many religious organizations have started to instate policies against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or genderqueer people being apart of their organization or holding offices and many businesses have adhered norms for social events which prevent lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or genderqueer employees from bringing their same-sex or gender nonconforming partners while heterosexual, heteronormative or cisnormative employees bring their opposite sex, heteronormative or cisnormative partners; being discriminated against in their normal life’s outside the office as well as in the offices or workplace they work in on a daily.
To sum it up how homophobia, transphobia, and genderqueerphobia (HTG) hurt us all is:
1. HTG locks all people into rigid sexual or gender roles that inhibit creativity and self-expression.
2. HTG compromises the integrity of heterosexual or gender conforming people by pressuring them to treat others badly, actions that go against our basic humanity.
3. HTG limits our ability to form close, intimate relationships with members of one’s own sex or gender if one feels different or open romantically.
4. HTG generally limits communications with a significant portion of the population and, more specifically, limits family relationships.
5. HTG prevents some lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, genderqueer, or intersex (LGBTQI) people from developing an honest self-identity, and adds to the pressure to marry and/or have children, which places undue stress on themselves and their families.
6. HTG are causes of premature sexual activity, which increases the chances of pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Young people, of all sexual and gender identities, are often pressured to become heterosexually gender normal active to prove that they are “normal.”
7. HTG results in the elimination of any discussion of the lives and sexuality of LGBTQI people in the curriculum, keeping important information from all students and all people.
8. HTG can be used to stigmatize, silence, and, on occasion, target people who are perceived or defined by others as lesbian, gay, or bisexual but who are, in actuality, heterosexual.
9. HTG prevents heterosexuals and those who are gender normative from accepting the benefits and gifts offered by LGBTQI people: theoretical insights, social and spiritual visions, contributions in the arts and culture, to family life, indeed, to all parts of society.
10. HTG (along with racism, sexism, classism, etc.) inhibits a unified and effective governmental and societal response to AIDS.
11. HTG takes energy away from more positive activities.
12. Homophobia, transphobia, and genderqueerphobia inhibit appreciation of other types of diversity, making it unsafe for everyone because each person has unique traits not considered mainstream or dominant. Therefore, we are all hurt when any one of us is disrespected.
Really is not kind and that is why it is upon us to make it so.
“Theists, there has to be a god, as something can not come from nothing.”
Well, thus something (unknown) happened and then there was something. This does not tell us what the something that may have been involved with something coming from nothing. A supposed first cause, thus something (unknown) happened and then there was something is not an open invitation to claim it as known, neither is it justified to call or label such an unknown as anything, especially an unsubstantiated magical thinking belief born of mythology and religious storytelling.
While hallucinogens are associated with shamanism, it is alcohol that is associated with paganism.
The Atheist-Humanist-Leftist Revolutionaries Shows in the prehistory series:
Show two: Pre-animism 300,000 years old and animism 100,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show tree: Totemism 50,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show four: Shamanism 30,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show five: Paganism 12,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show six: Emergence of hierarchy, sexism, slavery, and the new male god dominance: Paganism 7,000-5,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Capitalism) (World War 0) Elite and their slaves!
Prehistory: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” the division of labor, power, rights, and recourses: VIDEO
Pre-animism 300,000 years old and animism 100,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”: VIDEO
Totemism 50,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”: VIDEO
Shamanism 30,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”: VIDEO
Paganism 12,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Pre-Capitalism): VIDEO
Paganism 7,000-5,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Capitalism) (World War 0) Elite and their slaves: VIEDO
Paganism 5,000 years old: progressed organized religion and the state: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Kings and the Rise of the State): VIEDO
Paganism 4,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (First Moralistic gods, then the Origin time of Monotheism): VIEDO
I do not hate simply because I challenge and expose myths or lies any more than others being thought of as loving simply because of the protection and hiding from challenge their favored myths or lies.
The truth is best championed in the sunlight of challenge.
An archaeologist once said to me “Damien religion and culture are very different”
My response, So are you saying that was always that way, such as would you say Native Americans’ cultures are separate from their religions? And do you think it always was the way you believe?
I had said that religion was a cultural product. That is still how I see it and there are other archaeologists that think close to me as well. Gods too are the myths of cultures that did not understand science or the world around them, seeing magic/supernatural everywhere.
I personally think there is a goddess and not enough evidence to support a male god at Çatalhöyük but if there was both a male and female god and goddess then I know the kind of gods they were like Proto-Indo-European mythology.
This series idea was addressed in, Anarchist Teaching as Free Public Education or Free Education in the Public: VIDEO
Our 12 video series: Organized Oppression: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of power (9,000-4,000 years ago), is adapted from: The Complete and Concise History of the Sumerians and Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia (7000-2000 BC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szFjxmY7jQA by “History with Cy“
Show #1: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Samarra, Halaf, Ubaid)
Show #2: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power
Show #3: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Uruk and the First Cities)
Show #4: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (First Kings)
Show #5: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Early Dynastic Period)
Show #6: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power
Show #7: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Sargon and Akkadian Rule)
Show #9: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Gudea of Lagash and Utu-hegal)
Show #12: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Aftermath and Legacy of Sumer)
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Cory Johnston ☭ Ⓐ Atheist Leftist @Skepticallefty & I (Damien Marie AtHope) @AthopeMarie (my YouTube & related blog) are working jointly in atheist, antitheist, antireligionist, antifascist, anarchist, socialist, and humanist endeavors in our videos together, generally, every other Saturday.
Why Does Power Bring Responsibility?
Think, how often is it the powerless that start wars, oppress others, or commit genocide? So, I guess the question is to us all, to ask, how can power not carry responsibility in a humanity concept? I know I see the deep ethical responsibility that if there is power their must be a humanistic responsibility of ethical and empathic stewardship of that power. Will I be brave enough to be kind? Will I possess enough courage to be compassionate? Will my valor reach its height of empathy? I as everyone, earns our justified respect by our actions, that are good, ethical, just, protecting, and kind. Do I have enough self-respect to put my love for humanity’s flushing, over being brought down by some of its bad actors? May we all be the ones doing good actions in the world, to help human flourishing.
I create the world I want to live in, striving for flourishing. Which is not a place but a positive potential involvement and promotion; a life of humanist goal precision. To master oneself, also means mastering positive prosocial behaviors needed for human flourishing. I may have lost a god myth as an atheist, but I am happy to tell you, my friend, it is exactly because of that, leaving the mental terrorizer, god belief, that I truly regained my connected ethical as well as kind humanity.
Cory and I will talk about prehistory and theism, addressing the relevance to atheism, anarchism, and socialism.
At the same time as the rise of the male god, 7,000 years ago, there was also the very time there was the rise of violence, war, and clans to kingdoms, then empires, then states. It is all connected back to 7,000 years ago, and it moved across the world.
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Damien Marie AtHope (“At Hope”) Axiological Atheist, Anti-theist, Anti-religionist, Secular Humanist. Rationalist, Writer, Artist, Poet, Philosopher, Advocate, Activist, Psychology, and Armchair Archaeology/Anthropology/Historian.
Damien is interested in: Freedom, Liberty, Justice, Equality, Ethics, Humanism, Science, Atheism, Antiteism, Antireligionism, Ignosticism, Left-Libertarianism, Anarchism, Socialism, Mutualism, Axiology, Metaphysics, LGBTQI, Philosophy, Advocacy, Activism, Mental Health, Psychology, Archaeology, Social Work, Sexual Rights, Marriage Rights, Woman’s Rights, Gender Rights, Child Rights, Secular Rights, Race Equality, Ageism/Disability Equality, Etc. And a far-leftist, “Anarcho-Humanist.”
I am not a good fit in the atheist movement that is mostly pro-capitalist, I am anti-capitalist. Mostly pro-skeptic, I am a rationalist not valuing skepticism. Mostly pro-agnostic, I am anti-agnostic. Mostly limited to anti-Abrahamic religions, I am an anti-religionist.
To me, the “male god” seems to have either emerged or become prominent around 7,000 years ago, whereas the now favored monotheism “male god” is more like 4,000 years ago or so. To me, the “female goddess” seems to have either emerged or become prominent around 11,000-10,000 years ago or so, losing the majority of its once prominence around 2,000 years ago due largely to the now favored monotheism “male god” that grow in prominence after 4,000 years ago or so.
My Thought on the Evolution of Gods?
Animal protector deities from old totems/spirit animal beliefs come first to me, 13,000/12,000 years ago, then women as deities 11,000/10,000 years ago, then male gods around 7,000/8,000 years ago. Moralistic gods around 5,000/4,000 years ago, and monotheistic gods around 4,000/3,000 years ago.
To me, animal gods were likely first related to totemism animals around 13,000 to 12,000 years ago or older. Female as goddesses was next to me, 11,000 to 10,000 years ago or so with the emergence of agriculture. Then male gods come about 8,000 to 7,000 years ago with clan wars. Many monotheism-themed religions started in henotheism, emerging out of polytheism/paganism.
Damien Marie AtHope (Said as “At” “Hope”)/(Autodidact Polymath but not good at math):
Axiological Atheist, Anti-theist, Anti-religionist, Secular Humanist, Rationalist, Writer, Artist, Jeweler, Poet, “autodidact” Philosopher, schooled in Psychology, and “autodidact” Armchair Archaeology/Anthropology/Pre-Historian (Knowledgeable in the range of: 1 million to 5,000/4,000 years ago). I am an anarchist socialist politically. Reasons for or Types of Atheism
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