>
>>My close to a Major Pet Peeve of mine... all 'pagans' can be
>>defined as X.  AAAAGH.  No.  Big nasty dust-up a couple of years ago
>when the
>>PUC tried to stuff us all under an umbrella together to make us seem
>less
>>politicall frightening to the mainstream.  To me, eliding difference in
>the
>>same of some mythical political unity is oppressive and disingenuous.  
>>
>>And I better stomp the hell out of this rant before it starts and I
>tick off
>>the Weasel.  So.  
>>
>One of my favourite stories along those lines (most likely an urban
>legend, but I like it anyway) is that a bunch of white supremists heard
>that some pagans were going to be celebrating in the woods, so they
>decided it was time to drive the pantywaist sickos away and maybe teach
>the women what real men were. They duly got in their camouflage gear and
>attempted a scare tactic raid, only to find themselves facing a well
>armed and very dangerous looking group of hairy men painted blue and
>coming at them from the cover of the woods as if they were materialising
>out of the trees. They'd had no idea that there were men's groups, that
>Celtic groups didn't just sit around in long robes peacefully worshiping
>the sun, or that all pagans weren't weird old women who got together
>because they couldn't get a man. As they were driven back to their
>hummer they learned that not all pagans are the same.
>>
>If it's a true story at all, or in any way based on truth, I'd have
>given anything to see the looks on their faces.
>>
>Laurie well I thought it was funny Phoenix 

LOL!! Reminds me of the old "Pagan Cowboy Joe" strip in Green Egg (sadly
missed). I suspect it's an urban myth -- but, I 'll never forget being
surprized by a troop of boyscouts (about twenty of them, about nine or ten
years old) happenupon a group of us at a Pagan festival in Oregon -- you
guessed it -- skinny dipping. (Hey, it was 90 in the shade.) Lezlie.
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