Thank you very much for this.
Many years ago in college, I took a course in Celtic & Norse mythology just for fun, and there were three or four guys in there who were full on Asatru, with side-braids and Thor hammer necklaces. Every single time the teacher would even mention women, one of them would stand up and say “ACTUALLY, in a historic context, women and people of color were seen as inferior,” or some such thing, and would side-eye and sneer at the non-white-and-male people in class. I was happy to find out later that most Norse-flavored pagans aren’t raging bigots, but it’s definitely a worldview some of them subscribe to.
