Slog - Comments on Good News for Goths http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths The Pentagon is officially allowing pentacles. From NYT. In other military news: The Pat Tillman thing, Bush vetoes war spending bill, and Jessica Lynch castigates "Pentagon efforts to turn her into a 'little girl Rambo', accusing military chiefs of using 'elaborate lies' to turn her into a hero." The Pentagon initially put out the story that Private Lynch - a slight woman who was just 19 at the time - had been wounded by Iraqi gunfire but had kept fighting until her ammunition ran out. In fact her gun jammed and she did not fire a shot. Pentacles!... Copyright 2008 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:48:52 -0800 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:49:39 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by maxsolomon yeah, pagans are just sprinting to those recruiting office for the chance to die for insane monotheistic fascists fighting against another group of insane monotheistic fascists.

in no way does this constitute good news for anyone except headstone carvers who get to charge more. pentangles is hard!

]]> maxsolomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c699785 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c699785 Religion Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:04:51 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Um, Goths are not normally Wiccans, nor are Wiccans normally Goths. Besides, as someone who served as a Druid (Reform), when will other religions get acknowledged?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c699793 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c699793 Religion Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:12:22 -0800 Comment by el ganador Patrick Stewart is dead!?! Oh, woe, Captain Picard!!!

]]> el ganador http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c699827 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c699827 Religion Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:47:27 -0800 Comment by Catman Why the hell would a witch join the Armed Forces?

]]> Catman http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c699854 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c699854 Religion Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:07:01 -0800 Comment by DreadLion I wonder what the outcome would have been if Jessicas gun didn't jam. Either way she's still a o.k. im my book as a bad ass for even just being there.

]]> DreadLion http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c699855 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c699855 Religion Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:07:58 -0800 Comment by elswinger max, it is good news for Wiccans who die in combat and get buried in a military cemetery. However criminal this administrations war in the middle East is, I won't shit on someone who joins the service because they wish to serve their country, or do it out of financial need.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700066 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700066 Religion Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:49:37 -0800 Comment by Brian The Pentagon is officially allowing pentacles.

Ah, bigotry. Goths does not equal Wicca. But how nice for you to stereotype.

Why would a Wicca practitioner join the military? Same reason anyone joins.

3 hots and a cot.
Patriotism.
Money for college.
Adventure.
Get the heck out of Oklahoma.

Okay the last one was mine.

Not the service member was a sergeant which means he's been in for a few years and not some hapless kid.

]]> Brian http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700298 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700298 Religion Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:00:15 -0800 Comment by Brendan Kiley For the record: I know goth does not equal wicca. But every time I walk by my neighborhood witchy bookstore (twice a day), I see goths—goths behind the counter, goths browsing the books, goths getting their tarot read. Goths, goths, goths. I realize not all goths are wiccans. But it seems like a disproportionate number of wiccans are goths.

AND if you do a google search for "wicca" and other fashion/music genres (punk, hiphop, and, god forbid, country-western), you will find a lot more hits for wicca-goth than wicca-anything else.

Which is all to say: I get it, I get it—but really.

]]> Brendan Kiley http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700365 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700365 Religion Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:31:10 -0800 Comment by summertime #8 rolling on the floor laughing

]]> summertime http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700394 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700394 Religion Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:44:46 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale ditto, Catman. That's pretty damned funny.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700402 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700402 Religion Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:49:11 -0800 Comment by Brian Which is all to say: I get it, I get it—but really.

It was a cute headline, I'll allow.

And too .. there are a lot of wanna-bes and plain odd people who profess a belief in Wicca. But I look around at the Pagans and Wicca and 'etc' that I know and most of them look like everyone else.

Still .. offensive is offensive. If you wouldn't tag a Hispanic or African-American with an offensive stereotype, why Wiccans?

Oh wait - this is The Stranger. Of course you would (smile).

]]> Brian http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700443 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700443 Religion Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:07:42 -0800 Comment by James Z Goth and Wicca might not be the same thing, but they are both seriously lame. Call that a stereotype if you want. Both are subcultures regardless of the fact that wicca insists it's a religion. And I'm saying that as someone who dislikes religion in general.

]]> James Z http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700765 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700765 Religion Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:43:37 -0800 Comment by Brian Call that a stereotype if you want.

I'd say it's an observation. I'll assume that your only contact with Wicca is of the 'hippy dippy' variety.

Like Christianity there are high and low forms of practice and adherents who range from conservative to way far left flakes.

]]> Brian http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700865 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/good_news_for_goths#c700865 Religion Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:49:39 -0800