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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. Hag-hate, Smith argues, is driven by the female fear of ageing, and young women’s consequent desire to disidentify with the generations that went before them. We want to reassure ourselves that, though we might age, we will never truly be like the older women we see around ourselves today. I am like this; she is like that. When she was young, she surely couldn’t have been as smart and enlightened, as vibrant and alive, as I am today. I will not allow the currency of youth to slip through my fingers, as she so foolishly has done.

Can't wait to read this. Victoria Smith is one of the best feminist writers around. Also, you can watch her talk about her book next Friday at a free online event: It would take an embittered hag newly apprised of her own decrepitude to point out that things can only get worse. Still, as Smith points out, the demonisation of older women affects all females – particularly the young who, just like their forebears, will soon be on the wrong side of history. Bog hag : A variety of hags that dwelt in swamps, bog hags were predators that hid behind a familiar face. After lying in wait below the water and killing their victims, the sinister body snatchers stole their skin, and sometimes their identities. [25] If I was a cringy columnist writing for some pretentious paper, I’d probably say something along the lines of…

Rodney Thompson, Logan Bonner, Matthew Sernett (November 2010). Monster Vault. Edited by Greg Bilsland et al. ( Wizards of the Coast), pp. 164–167. ISBN 978-0-7869-5631-9. The author describes how the experiences of women around fertility and child bearing is diminished by gender neutral language but I don’t think that is necessarily the case either. I won’t go into this as others have in much better detail. After all, defining experiences such as periods and pregnancy as belonging only to cis women has so far worked not so well in terms of changing the status quo anyways. Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England and pixies prey upon violent men. Sometimes the thing we think we're the most sure about actually turns out to be our biggest mistake. Monte Cook (October 2002). Book of Vile Darkness. Edited by David Noonan, Penny Williams. ( Wizards of the Coast), p. 157. ISBN 0-7869-3136-1.

Given their nature as an all-female race, hags had to find other ways to reproduce beyond the conventional methods. There were many tales of the bizarre means through which hags came into the world; some stories reported that they spawned from animals, like cows with venomous milk or snake eggs kissed by virgins, while other processes were more artificial, like being incubated in the coffins of the unhallowed or being poured out from cauldrons of boiling blood. [8] One of the most widely told tales of hag reproduction had to be that of the changeling. [7] [10] Changeling [ ] Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.

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. Rosheen was born to a Trinidadian father and an Irish mother in Ireland's small County, Kerry. She'd never met her father and when she was all grown up, she leaves the town she grew up in to move to the big city and finds work on a secluded farm where the owner doesn't pay her much and got her to work tirelessly. When she demands her share of the money, she experiences something stranger, stranger than fiction as they say. Robert J. Schwalb (December 2011). “Dungeon Master's Book”. In Tanis O'Connor, et al. eds. The Book of Vile Darkness ( Wizards of the Coast), pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-0-7869-5868-9. wrote a long essay about my thoughts on this but goodreads (predictably) ate it so I'm just going to summarise: Ashleigh and George move to George's parents' farm, Sour hall farm after she inherits the farm. They start working on renovating and also how to make a profit from selling cheese and milk and the likes. It is rumored that the farm is haunted by The Boggart. Ashleigh starts to see some strange things that are somehow related to her past.

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. As someone just entering their 40s (but still too young to be a hag by the definition in this book), I bought this book in sue Ryder to find out what might yet be to come. Then, at a certain age, not only have you learned that the game is rigged, but you can’t play any more in any case. You’re “cast out from the patriarchal meat market”. It makes sense that women in this position have different insights than their younger counterparts. And they are also less hesitant to share them: people care less what others think of them when whatever approval they once stood to lose has dwindled. Differences in the feminist politics typical of older and younger women (such as views on pornography, or transgender issues) should be understood in these terms, says Smith, not the convenient assumption that older generations are just incorrigibly narrow-minded. James Wyatt (October 2001). Oriental Adventures (3rd edition). ( Wizards of the Coast), pp. 147–148). ISBN 0-7869-2015-7.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] These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. 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.

She herself a stranger in the land before she had dreamt of the wide flat skies and horizons, the sprawling dappled green landscape, windmills dotted along the Broads' periphery spinning like moored gods. 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. Chris Pramas (November 1999). Guide to Hell. Edited by Kim Mohan. ( TSR, Inc.), pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-0786914319.

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. If only the book had an index....and these were only in the introduction and beginning of chapter one. Lowan has a family secret, the one that comes with a great cost. When it's time for Lowan to pay the cost, he comes up with something completely unexpected and things turn around for him.

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