loveoflopt:

Nooo, his giving birth was punishment for it (according to this person). Whcih I think is even freaking weirder. Is the person trying to suggest that cis straight women are being punished with childbirth as well? O_o

(Although some argue that he was punished for pointing out the problems of the Aesir in Lokasenna)

ohh I see. yeah, that idea is fucked up and full of misogyny and cissexism. ugh.

but to tie this in with misogyny in other major influential religions, recall that painful labor and childbirth is said to be all women’s punishment for Eve taking the fruit of knowledge, so there’s a precedent for the concept of childbirth-as-punishment in religious beliefs (it’s still fucked up and misogynist at the heart of it). but people bringing that into heathenism feels like someone is trying to push their UPG on everyone else. guh.