Hags: 'eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times

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Hypnotic, disquieting and thrilling. A concoction of folklore, identity and belonging which sinks its fangs into the heart of you." (Irenosen Okojie) Because, for some reason, the crux of most of Victoria Dutchman-Smith's argument is that you cannot critique older women for their bigotry without being ageist and sexist. *Rolls eyes*. The youngins are doing feminism wrong, according to her. We (I use "we" lightly because I am not far from the age the author cites as entry into middle age... as an older millennial I'm probably closer in age to the author than gen Z) are not bowing and scraping to the knowledge acquired by the older generations... by which, I mean, we aren't taking that knowledge without comment and instead pointing out some of its flaws. Misogyny flourishes in spaces where it can be made to appear virtuous,” writes Smith. And that’s certainly the atmosphere that prevailed during the 17th-century witch-hunting era, when unruly women who gathered together to “gossip” or share subversive views were barbarically gagged with so-called scold’s bridles or, worse, executed for sorcery. Hags is an impassioned defence of Smith's belief that "society hates middle-aged women". Yet Smith failed to convince me (a 41 year old and middle aged according to blurb) of the veracity of that thesis.

Despite these disparate tales, there was one origin story of the hags that included not only the disparate green, annis, and sea hags, but also the hag goddess Cegilune. This legend was corroborated by a myth long held by ogres and hill giants, for what that was worth, and perhaps hinted at the true origins of hags. [7] Cegilune [ ] Ed Bonny (1997). “Pox of the Planes”. In Dave Gross ed. Dragon Annual #2 ( TSR, Inc.) (2)., p. 104. But eventually Dutchman-Smith's conservative, transphobic rhetoric became all too clear and I couldn't persist. Yet aside from a few statistics on the comparative earning power of older males and females and the shortage of middle-aged women in the public eye, Smith presents little scientific evidence to support her thesis, favouring instead a series of anecdotal comments gleaned from social media posts or classic texts by feminists such as Simone de Beauvoir, Gloria Steinem, Andrea Dworkin and Naomi Wolf, as well as conversations with contemporary women.

A hag's lair, no matter it's form, was an unpleasant, disturbing thing which, like her form and magic, was a representation of herself. [2] [1] This was when they weren't actively twisting Feywild magic to twist their homes to better fit their macabre tastes and dark senses of humor. [8] Normally there was some element of corruption and death; a dead tree, a cave resembling a skull or possibly an actual giant skull. At other times they were more obviously manufactured, resembling taverns, ruined towers, mausoleums, giant coffins, and even gingerbread houses. [2] [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 have thoughts at this time of night. This argument does stray into a whole other topic of cancel culture and even how this differs for women and men that isn’t covered in the book and is far bigger than this tiny review. 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. Skye is a single mother working in a small town in Scotland as an archeologist. She is the talk of the town as no one knows who the father of her baby is and she keeps it a secret as well. When the baby's fathe Like me, Smith is in her 40s and came of age in the 1990s, when notions of female equality and empowerment were watered-down, commodified and draped in irony. It took until the early 2010s for high-profile women to be able to publicly embrace feminism without being derided as killjoys, misandrists, or both. But, in recent years, our view of feminism, what it means, who it is for and how it should conduct itself has become fractured and, as Smith tells it, battle lines have been drawn: on one side, Gen X women who say their sex is inextricably connected to their biology, who want to preserve single-sex spaces and who find themselves denigrated as Terfs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists); on the other, the younger smashers of the gender binary who believe a person’s sex is unimportant and who, Smith maintains, cannot accept that one day they will be middle-aged and have to deal with this crap too.

Mike Mearls, et al. (November 2016). Volo's Guide to Monsters. Edited by Jeremy Crawford, et al. ( Wizards of the Coast), pp. 52–62, 159–160. ISBN 978-0786966011.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.



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