Can 👏 we 👏 please 👏 stop 👏 depicting 👏 Sigyn 👏 as 👏 a 👏 child-bride 👏

murcielagobrujx:

ribbonsandnightshade:

Seriously ya’ll need to fucking stop with this shit.  Sigyn is a grown ass fucking woman for fuck’s sake.  We don’t talk about any other of Gods or Goddesses being a child-bride.  It’s only one person’s fucking UPG that gets held on a fucking pedestal as Sigyn being a child-bride.  I don’t give a shit about “age” or “historic” acceptance of child-brides.  That shit is fucking disgusting.  Period.

It’s also fucking abusive as fuck.  Like in any other relationship in mythos or real life that sort of meeting as a child thing and Loki being Her only friend and “grooming” Her to be His wife reflects real life child sexual abuse.  God or human doesn’t matter.  That’s what that shit is.

Then there’s the issue of it passively demonizing Loki because who would ever want to marry or be with Him.  Like it’s making Him seem so awful that of course He’d marry a child.  Or because She was only “groomed” to marry and stay with Him.  Fuck that shit with a cactus covered in hot sauce.

I have literally never heard of any interactions with Sigyn or Loki, including my own, where this child-bride crap was verified.  All this is is glorifying pedophilia and we already have enough of that in our religion as it is.

This this this this this. This is UPG presented authoritatively and I really despise how often I stumble across it. There’s nothing wrong with having a god or goddess appear to you in child form (Hel often appears to me as a child), but depicting said appearance in the context of a romantic and sexual interaction is awful. In Krasskova’s devotional piece, adult Loki purportedly meets Sigyn when she’s apparently a toddler, has an immediate attraction to her, but knows it would be wrong to pursue anything, so gives her gifts and befriends her while waiting for her to get older. (Which is quite literally the definition of grooming.) In this piece, he marries her when she turns fifteen.

I’m fully aware that gods don’t age the same way humans do, blah blah blah. It doesn’t change the fact that this story uncritically presents pedophilia as sweet, and infantilizes my beloved goddess’ side of her relationship to my beloved Loki, and I hate it. And I’d really ask any adults who are particularly drawn to this interpretation to take a long, hard look at why, and why they find it more appealing than other UPGs where Loki and Sigyn meet and fall in love as two adult equals in a balanced relationship.