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Some reports claimed that hags, every century or so, would use some manner of kidnapping, disguise, charming, and coercion to convince almost any kind of humanoid male, humans and half-elves seemingly being preferred, to lay with them. [10] [24] After swiftly dealing with that, more often than not killing the male afterwards as an accidental mercy, they would immediately know when they were pregnant and spend nine months in a relatively lethargic state, relying on their allies to protect them although able to fight if needed. The female child produced at the end of this period appeared like a normal member of the father's kind. [10] Yet in taking on the role of the younger woman denouncing the older woman who nurtured her, Watson was really signalling that she wasn’t a witch: I only played Hermione. Burn the author, not me”. Whether or not that’s fair, the author has titled her new podcast The Witch Trials Of JK Rowling. And it’s clear that older feminists, including Suzanne Moore and Germaine Greer, are increasingly finding themselves in the firing line.

She's at her strongest when she's talking about the nasty turn that has been taken against middle aged women in recent years and how that has roots in successive waves of feminism and generations of women. A lot of it really rings true, and she describes it in a way that really humanises it, rather than just - you know - blaming the youngsters for having no respect or whatever. Annis : The most physically powerful and feared of the hags, annis hags were ferocious savages with nails and teeth like iron. They were egotistical brutes who saw strength as virtue and appealed to simple-minded beings like children or primitives. [7] [2] My issue is the framing of all feminist debate as a generational conflict - Dutchman-Smith tries to frame the 'gender debate' as older, more 'experienced-laden' feminists who, by virtue of hitting female milestones e.g menopause, birth, have a more wordly understanding of sex and gender than 'naive', 'accomodating' younger feminists, who do not have the grasp on their own politics or feelings because they're too afraid of being called bigoted, or they're too foolish to understand they're aiding the patriarchy, or at one point Dutchman-Smith implies that women who call older women transphobic are simply trying to steal their careers - a suggestion that is awful, patronising and frankly misogynistic.Sea hag : The indisputably ugliest of the hags, sea hags were decrepit piscine women of such hideousness that one could die from looking at them. The aquatic hags sought to defile and invert all that was beautiful. [1] Ed Greenwood (October 1998). The City of Ravens Bluff. Edited by John D. Rateliff. ( TSR, Inc.), p. 96. ISBN 0-7869-1195-6. I also liked the narrative about nurturing younger women but this is where I started to get a bit conflicted. I didn’t necessarily agree that women should therefore feel somehow indebted to older women for their help in the same way our kids didn’t ask us to be born. This is what I felt the author eluded to in some of her discussions and there did seem to be an us versus them mentality towards younger women that perhaps I don’t yet understand. Hags had no desire to be tied down by others, taking pride in their independence from the rest of the world, including from other hags. Nonetheless, despite how different they could be, all hags recognized each other as kindred spirits, members of a kind of sinister sisterhood by which they were undeniably connected. [2] [8] Even though hags didn't like each other, they were still members of their shadowy sorority and as such had to abide by an ageless code of conduct when dealing with one another. [2] [1] For example, they always had to announce their presence when entering another hag's territory, bring gifts when entering another hag's home, and keep oaths made to other hags, at least so long as their fingers weren't crossed. [1] I also don’t have strong views on jk Rowling as a person but don’t like her actions. I liked Harry Potter and I liked the strike tv series. I’ve watched them all when they came on uktvplay! Lots of authors and famous people in history have had abhorrent views and we can still like their work (looking at you roald Dahl and David Bowie). But in repeatedly defending jk in the way she does, the author does diminish what she has actually done and why this isn’t ok. Jk is entitled to her own views regardless of whether anyone agrees but she then doubled down and started using her platform to voice quite a lot of very negative views about trans people over a prolonged period of time. Regardless of said personal views, using your platform in this way is problematic for more reasons that I ha

This is especially possible in an age where, as Smith points out, we tend to see our bodies as customisable meat suits that are meant to reflect our true selves, and “few people think their true self looks like a middle-aged woman”. Around twenty years ago, I remember observing with horror my mother’s elbows; they were dry and wrinkly, like those of most adults, and in contrast to my own perfectly smooth child-limbs. My elbows will never be like that, I thought. My logic, I think, went something like this: I would hate for my elbows to look like that, so how could they, when I would hate it so much? Similarly, we can tell ourselves that we couldn’t bear to be seen as ugly, stupid and irrelevant, and so we surely won’t be. By extension, then, if older women are seen that way, then it must be that they can bear it, perhaps because it is an accurate assessment. Many of the arguments about how ageism impacts older women explored in this book are societal, not generational. Discussions of the impact of beauty standards and attempts for medicine to recognise that female bodies may experience illness differently are mainstays of feminist discussion. Smith doesn't say anything new (apart from framing this a generational issue). When Harry Potter star Emma Watson declared at the 2022 Baftas that she was “here for ‘all’ the witches” this was, writes Smith “taken to be a dig at the older, supposedly ‘exclusionary’ JK Rowling. Another claimed method was even more direct, the use of magic to swap their spawn with those of other races while the original child was still in the womb, supposedly killing the mother, asleep at the time of the switch, at birth. This claim seemed more superstition than the others and had never actually been proven, although given hag access to weird magic it was difficult to put anything past the ability of their rotten witchery. [2] [5] [10] The Change [ ] Hagspawn : The male counterparts to changelings, hagspawn inherited the strength and endurance of their forebears without the magic or inevitable transformation. They didn't grow into true hags like changelings did, and as such no male hags existed. [24]

I was so looking forward to this read... only to be so disappointed just within the introduction alone. Victoria Dutchman-Smith's voice is very distinct and she claims it. She has no problem letting you know that she is a heterosexual, white, middle class woman with children, she writes that with a disclaimer but honestly, it's very obvious from the way she has chosen to write this novel and what she has chosen to focus on within her writing. The amount of time that hags spent dormant was said to vary based on the methods used to bring them into the world, but nonetheless ended in something known by hags as "the change", the final transformation into one of their kind. Those born after nine months typically lived until their mid-forties, showing minor predilections up until that pointed towards traits foreshadowing their futures; young annis hags were often dark-skinned, powerful and aggressive, young green hags attractive prima donnas and young sea hags plain and pale with toxic personalities. Once the mid-forties were reached, more obvious physical alterations occurred until the juvenile was reborn as a true hag of the same kind as her mother. [7] [10] The aberrant adolescence of young hags made from devoured children was far swifter, the child only living until their thirteenth birthday before transforming into a near physical clone of their mother. [2] Lifespan [ ] Wolfgang Baur, Steve Kurtz (1992). Monstrous Compendium Al-Qadim Appendix. ( TSR, Inc). ISBN l-56076-370-1. Mike Mearls, Greg Bilsland and Robert J. Schwalb (June 15, 2010). Monster Manual 3 4th edition. ( Wizards of the Coast), pp. 108–109. ISBN 0786954902. If I was a cringy columnist writing for some pretentious paper, I’d probably say something along the lines of…

I felt a bit saddened by the chapters talking about fertility that worth as a parent or non parent was not fully explored. This felt like a missed opportunity. I will start by saying it’s well written. And some of the arguments and well thought through and the author is fairly personable. The patron power of the hags was Cegilune, a bitter moon goddess who herself held a grudge against many divine beings and the countless mortal races who followed them. From the bottom of the multiverse, a pit in the Gray Waste known as Hag's End, she brewed new abominations and used profane magic in her spiteful schemes. Though she did have devotees who praised her virtues while cursing and sacrificing her enemies at gristly shrines, hags for the most part had no love for their own goddess. Most hags feared her for her cupidity, rightly believing that she might demand information, magic, and other spoils they'd rather keep for themselves, but they dared not disobey her. [7] [6] As someone “becoming invisible” due to my age, I agree with some of the discussions about beauty standards and fertility. I thought the chapters on sexual violence and rape culture were well considered too and horrifying! I have some teenage memories of the 90s culture that the author discusses and her experiences of them made me reflect on my own experiences too. Completely agree about using Karen as a term to belittle the views of women when we do t have an alternative for equally racist and entitled men. Dutchman-Smith points out things that I'm sure I've done like becoming a mother but proclaiming I wouldn't "just be a mother" or "be like those Facebook-posting mothers." I have also thought of my mother's generation of feminists as failures as if my generation would be the one that got it right. She says that every generation of feminists does that and it is needlessly divisive. Feminism may evolve, sure, but if we punch down at the last wave, we are doing more damage than good. Hadn't thought of it that way.In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused. Waterstones has said “there is no truth” in claims that some of its shops were refusing to sell copies of two books by gender-critical feminists. Though hags were known to inhabit both the Feywild and the Prime Material Plane, many were known to settle where the divide between the two was thin, allowing them to interact with beings from both realms. Even ignoring the Feywild, areas where magic energy was strong and the lines between worlds was tenuous were favorable to hags. For example, the ambient magical energy of a burial ground or a ring of fallen standing stones could still hold echoes of ancient, death-related power that a hag would wish to capitalize on. [2] All the standard sub-species of hags, in addition to night hags and silats, could also be found in the Domains of Dread. [23] Reproduction [ ]

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