Chris Pramas (November 1999). Guide to Hell. Edited by Kim Mohan. ( TSR, Inc.), pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-0786914319.

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. Gloomy as all this sounds, Hags offers a spirited and enjoyable reworking of a familiar subject – the devaluing of older women. My thoughts is that it would be hugely reductive to frame other feminist debates - e.g, the sex wars - in this way, but that is exactly what the author does. It seems intellectually lazy to not consider the actual ideas that are being debated - that in fact, the trans-inclusive feminists may have their own ideas and politics that are fully formed and cannot be attributed to naivety or ignorance. The book talks a bit about the sex wars, but barely touches on the gender debate - which in some ways is fair, since it's not what the book is about, but it becomes increasingly distracting in it's efforts to talk "around" what the issue even is! Though this time was horrible, it was merely a phase; Cegilune's hateful response proved unwise as her younger rivals had far more collective worshipers then she did, and those that weren't killed were driven to the dark wilderness of the world. Cegilune herself was left weakened by her tantrum, for even having hoarded her power, the fit left her exhausted and ruined her beauty, leaving her a pale reflection of herself and forcing her too to flee to the deepest, loneliest crater in existence. Her followers found themselves twisted by the malevolence infused in what once was her blessings, her water-walking prophets becoming sea hags, sweet-voiced songs becoming green hags, and powerful protectors becoming annis hags. In more recent times, the hags, still beings of darkness driven by ancient spite, schemed to bring suffering to mortals. The moon goddess herself, now only full of hate, fostered her remaining divinity to bring ruin to the mortal races she saw as traitors and to extinguish the risen stars, in her opinion the impostor gods of the night, that took her place. [7] Appendix [ ] External Links [ ] 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]

If only the book had an index....and these were only in the introduction and beginning of chapter one. Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins (2014-09-30). Monster Manual 5th edition. Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Gray. ( Wizards of the Coast), pp. 176–179. ISBN 978-0786965614. F. Wesley Schneider (May 2005). “The Ecology of the Green Hag”. In Erik Mona ed. Dragon #331 ( Paizo Publishing, LLC), pp. 56–60. Silat : A variety of hag from Zakhara, silat were a strange subrace known for their unpredictably. Leaning more towards chaos than evil, some were known to be benevolent and kind if approached in whatever manner they deemed "proper". [28] Metamorphosis [ ] 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.

Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook (July 2003). Monster Manual v.3.5. ( Wizards of the Coast), pp. 143–144. ISBN 0-7869-2893-X. 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. If one did need to make a deal with a hag, the best way, if one could be said to exist, was when one could offer the hag something they needed or wanted. In the mind of the hag, part of their compensation for any given service was the suffering of the other party, and giving them something they genuinely desired made the matter more about sating their greed than their sadism. Because hags weren't subtle about self-expression, it would immediately become clear when a hag wanted to have or observe something, such as an odd spell, magic item, or person with bizarre magical abilities, sometimes snatching the object out of the holder's hands to perform more thorough examination. They would smell, shake, taste, feel, and hear the subject, person or otherwise, whispering to themselves before finally placing a mental value on it. [2] F. Wesley Schneider. Powers of the Covey: Hag Brews. Dragon Magazine. Paizo Publishing. Retrieved on 2020-09-10. I am not sure I read the same book as all the broadsheet reviewers. She makes an interesting statement, one you go “oh, interesting” and then she argues her case in such a confused and random way that leaves you pondering what she actually just said. She quotes from other books and sources but often in the most random way, leaving you to puzzle out how that is actually supporting her argument in that instant.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. Let's start by saying transwomen are women and if you're yelling at customer service staff you deserve to be called a Karen. 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. 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? 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.

A changeling often appeared normal, even beautiful and healthy for their kind, with their true nature often a mystery even to themselves for most of their lives. However, over time, their hag heritage would begin to show as their forms and personalities were impacted by their ancestry, although not even these bullying tendencies and other bad habits were extreme enough to make them appear like anything but a particularly brutish member of their kin. [7] [10] 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. Cegilune herself couldn't care less for the ultimate fate of the hags, distrusting them and generally only seeing them as tools to sate her hatred. [6] [15] Given this relationship between patron and benefactor, it was no wonder why she had to trade souls with demon lords to obtain enough magic to sustain her being, seeing as she seemed to cling to divinity only for the purpose of resolving her grudges. [7] [6] Hags were curious about other beings of power, including other hags, dragons, fiends, genies, and sometimes even mortals of great power, and had some small sliver of respect for those with accurate knowledge of such beings. Given their magical and political prowess, dangerous beings might be under a hag's sway, whether returning a favor or paying off a supernaturally enforced blood debt. [2] Hags were known to put themselves in servitor positions, offering their dark knowledge to powerful evil entities, but whether as oracles or simple advisors they were typically unfaithful to their masters if presented with a chance to usurp. [3] [13] Conversely, the heinous deeds of hags earned them powerful enemies, good-aligned dragons and giants being known to hunt them and kill them if given the chance. [5] Mortals [ ] 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.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. The idea that the person who gave birth to you, breastfed you, dealt with your tantrums and taught you how to use a toilet is a human being with an inner life just as rich as your own is an indignity too much for some people – some men, especially – to bear, the ultimate case of being beaten by a girl. Therefore, women’s link to physical dependency must mean they are purely physical creatures, incapable of interpreting their own experiences – “too stupid to understand their own jokes”, as Smith puts it. The life of the mind belongs to men. Women may be given guest access, as long as they are not yet subsumed into that “bovine” mass of middle-aged mothers. Is there any hope for hags, and by extension for all of us? Yes, says Smith. The best-kept secret among women is not, as Germaine Greer would have it, “how much men hate them”, but “how much other women don’t hate them”. All women, unless they die young, will live to see themselves become hags. If we can overcome the divide-and-conquer messaging that alienates hags from the rest of us, we will find new allies among other women and in our own selves.

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. How your politics get judged harshly and how the only recourse is that some day you'll die, and God why won't it be sooner? 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.As we grow older, there’s often an accumulation of experiences that show us, in many different ways, that it’s a man’s world. Physical and economic infrastructure is built for male bodies and male life cycles; male perspectives and experiences are favoured and treated as the default at every turn.