Hags: 'eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times

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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 [ ] Robert J. Schwalb (December 2011). “Codex of Betrayal: Glasya, Princess of the Nine Hells”. In Steve Winter ed. Dungeon #197 ( Wizards of the Coast) (197)., p. 4. 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] Hags tolerated little disrespect in regards to mortals because all possessed at least one crippling weakness: arrogance. Hags treated almost all other beings, particularly humans and demihumans, as inferiors, believing themselves to be the most cunning of all beings. [1] [5] This natural sense of superiority was, in some cases, unwarranted, [10] and while they were extremely clever, their confidence could lead them to accidentally reveal something during conversation that the more cautious wouldn't let slip. [5]

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There's no references here, no attempt at a scientific discussion. Everything is presented as her own opinion, with a few snippets of dialogue from her friends. She brings up a good deal of second wave feminists but only uses these to pooh-pooh third and fourth wave feminists. How dare the youths of today have ideas about gender identity and concerns of about their appearance! Don't you know that once you've had a few kids and the pain that results from it that concerns about feelings and emotions don't matter?

I just don’t believe in repeatedly promoting and voicing negative views at the expense of others. We societally wouldn’t put up with it if she was being outwardly racist. Or xenophobic so why is transphobic ok? 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]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. 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. More recently, the “screaming, destructive witches” of Greenham Common” were decried as “belligerent harpies” but today, argues Smith, the feared coven has moved online in the form of Mumsnet – an internet parenting platform that has been derided both as a forum where silly women talk about prams and school catchment areas, and as a “toxic” cauldron of “TERFdom” (trans-exclusionary feminism).