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Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edtion

Started by Valwen, May 25, 2015, 12:27:13 AM

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Valwen

So white wolfs game about magic in the modern world has finally got its new book a almost 700 page one in fact, there is a lot I could say about the game, heck its the reason I am friends with half the people I am friends with right now but there is one side bar I felt I had to share with everyone here, one that I hope White Wolf and Onxy Path will understand me sharing. Page 238 Middle of character creation.

Gender Identity
Although gender identity and sexual orientation have never been as clearly defined as cultural conservatives like to
believe, the 21st century has seen an unprecedented awareness of sexual and gender possibilities. And even though this freaks the living hell out of certain people, there's more freedom these days to express and explore potentials beyond just male and female heterosexual polarities.
Mages have always bent preconceptions around their little fingers. Throughout time and culture, cross-dressing, gender inversion, and intersexuality have been regarded as magical tools or dispositions, ways of transcending the expected order. Some cultures referred to gay or transgendered mystics as two-souls, rebises, androgynes, or hermaphrodites, after Hermaphroditos, the double-sexed son of Eros and Psyche. Other cultures recognized the blending and crossing of genders as an expression of mystic power, a link to gods like Odin or Dionysus, whose genders were just masks to shed when necessary. People being people, of course, such associations were often unfavorable. The codes of Leviticus, which remain with us even now, are thought by some authorities to have been condemnations of non-Jewish – and thus, to the Hebrews, unholy – practices and creeds.
Over the last few decades, a combination of civil rights activism and human rights awareness has chipped away at the old ways. A gay or trans person in the new millennium can be more open now than he/ she/ ze/ they could have been in previous decades. And between the old associations of mystic power and the new freedom to transcend gender roles without getting burnt at the stake for it, the idea of gender identity is more fluid – and more magickal – than ever before. Especially in queer, polyamorous, transhumanist, neotribal, and psychedelic cultures, it's often more unusual to be conventionally "straight" than it is to hold, embrace, and enjoy the hell out of an identity outside the traditional polarities.
The point? You don't have to limit yourself to rigid male or female polarities, either in Mage or in real life. Be who you want to be. There's magick enough for everyone.

What is a Lie when it's at home? Anyone?
Is it the depressed little voice inside? Whispering in my ear? Telling me to give up?
Well I'm not giving up. Not for that part of me that hates myself. That part wants me to wither and die. not for you. Never for you.  --Loki: Agent of Asgard

Started HRT Febuary 21st 2015
First Time Out As Myself June 8th 2015
Full Time June 24th 2015
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