User:Switchercat/Box2



more about me 

I've been using Wikipedia under this username since, I believe, March '06; I'd been doing small edits anonymously for a few months before that.



I use the name Switchercat on the Simple English Wikipedia (here) and on the Wikimedia Commons (here), as well as on this Wikipedia. Incidentally, I'm also "Switchercat" on PaganWiki and LiveJournal (here). My personal website is absurdism.org.

I own an actual barnstar, and have had it before I even knew they existed on Wikipedia. It's hung up on my wall next to my shrine.

some biases


 * Regarding religion: I am a polytheist, though I have a fairly abstract/confusing definition of "god." I disapprove of pagans who don't research their religions seriously, and I'm skeptical—though not against—eclecticism. I'm not anti-Abrahamic religions. I came from a Reconstructionist Jewish background, learned enough about Wicca to know it wasn't for me (and enough to rewrite the Simple English Wikipedia article!) and am currently (as I wrote before) a Kemetic recon.
 * Regarding LGBT issues and gender: I believe that gender exists and is real, but that it isn't binary, and transgenderism of any kind (or agenderism) is legitimate and normal. I strongly support equal rights for LGBT people, both sexual and social. I am personally leery of whether polyamory "works" or not, but I do not believe it's morally wrong.
 * Regarding therianthropy and otherkin (this gets into the weird territory...): I identify as partly leopard, making me a therian and otherkin. I'm generally skeptical about most people in both communities, but I believe that it's quite possible to be of another species (though not physically).
 * Regarding linguistics: I am a descriptivist regarding spoken and written language, but (hypocritically) I'm biased against a lot of internet slang, especially the parts of it that are not transferable to everyday speech. I don't like certain spelling changes, like using the wrong "it's/its," because they aren't standardized among the error-makers—suggesting that they're more a problem of laziness than an evolutionary change in the language.
 * Miscellanea:
 * I support (and have three times won) NaNoWriMo. I don't think it necessarily produces bad writing, and even when it does, it's just for fun. No harm done.
 * I tend to call the ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) deities by their Egyptian names, instead of their Greco-Roman ones, and follow the Kemetic Orthodox renaming standards: Wesir instead of Osiris, Yinepu instead of Anubis, so on.
 * I am pro-choice.
 * I'm a smell-touch synesthete.
 * I think body art is cool, even when people sport lots of it, and particularly like stretched piercings.

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