Hags: 'eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times

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She has been longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award and the New Angle Award for East Anglian writing. She was the winner of the Edge Hill award for a collection of short stories and the AM Heath Prize. As noted in my mid-book comment, I am too young to fall into the 'hag' category defined by this book, for that reason I am sure that there are portions that may well appear differently to me in a decade or so.

F. Wesley Schneider (July 2006). “The Ecology of the Annis”. In Erik Mona ed. Dragon #345 ( Paizo Publishing, LLC), pp. 64–68. Let's start by saying transwomen are women and if you're yelling at customer service staff you deserve to be called a Karen. 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. Ed Greenwood (October 1998). The City of Ravens Bluff. Edited by John D. Rateliff. ( TSR, Inc.), p. 96. ISBN 0-7869-1195-6.To discount older women is, if you’re female, to write off your future self. Yes, we know why you do it. It is born of fear, and societal pressures, and a lot of deep, Freudian stuff to do with motherhood; if you are privileged, it may also have to do with guilt (shout about the Terfs and no one will notice you went to public school). However, our sympathy for you is limited. When you liken feminism to Covid-19 on the grounds that both had “problematic second waves”, you sound very ignorant to us. We wonder where you would be without the Abortion Act, the Equal Pay Act, and the women – your grandmothers among them, I expect – who struggled to make sure their daughters might have all the things they were denied themselves. She is as good on the toxic culture of self-improvement as she is on plastic surgery At the end of the ritual, the life essence of all hags in the coven was bound to the eye, allowing all members to see what the eye could see so long as it was on the same plane as them, the eye being able to see in the dark. Superficially, a hag's eye appeared as a semiprecious stone but a truesight revealed its true form as a monstrous, disembodied eye. Hag eyes weren't particularly difficult to destroy, and doing so caused all hag's in the coven great mental anguish as well as temporarily blinding at least one of them for an entire day. Creating a new one first required at least a day for the blinded coven mate to recover and had to be done at least three days after the eye was destroyed, some reports stating they could only make one once per month. [1] [4] [5] [10] 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). First of all, it wasn't what I expected. The title is obviously a piss take of Owen Jones's "Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class", which was the last worthwhile thing Owen Jones did, before becoming the chief scourge of middle aged women everywhere. As such, I expected there to be a lot more personal axe-grinding against individuals, but she is too classy for that. I also expected more examinations of individual instances in which women had been named and shamed in social media for some imaginary Karenage. I think she was probably wise not to go down that route either, because it could easily have got into Douglas Murray territory and nobody wants that. But maybe a few more examples might have helped illustrate the wider point. This was the best of the bunch. My favorite story, not only in the way it was told but also because the twist was pretty good. The only complaint is that the ending could have been better.

Alana Abbott (November 2011). “Court of Stars: Baba Yaga, Mother of All Witches”. In Steve Winter ed. Dungeon #196 ( Wizards of the Coast) (196)., pp. 1–5. 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.

An iconic part of hag mythology and one of their most potent creations were the magic items known as hag eyes, [10] [7] made from gemstones of reportedly varying worth and the real eye of a hag's victim. [1] [4] [5] Hag eyes required the effort of an entire hag coven to craft, although the details of their creation were possibly malleable. The ritual for creating a hag eye was said to take anywhere between an hour to three days to complete, and required the full attention of the coven to complete. This time was spent in a state of deep concentration and meditation, that prevented them from doing anything besides eating, drinking and sleeping, and anything that disrupted the process forced them to start over again. [1] [4] [5] [10] The hags were a race of such ancient origins that all that could definitively be said was that they originated in the Feywild, and as embodiments of nature's cruelty they might have existed since its inception. [1] [8] Being a race of egotistical boasters and blatant liars, anything they said regarding their believed heritage was at the very least their warped perception and at worst an outright fabrication. [7] They haunted the legends of all cultures, and though a few common tales could be found, it was difficult to tell their veracity. [7] [10] Making sure that we offer the books our customers want to read is the basis of good bookselling and good service means treating all our customers with respect and for them to feel welcome to choose the books they want.” 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. 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.