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[quote=Anonymous]1) I’m 100% fine with it, and I think it’s cute.

2) I do think it would be eye-opening if more people did some general reading on gerontology, specifically the links between the reality of aging and the fiction of it. I read a book on this, and it was fascinating how basic symptoms of menopause/perimenopause (facial hair, gray/wiry hair, wrinkles, enlarged nose, hump back) = fictional portrayal of “witch.”

In fairy tales especially, older women (older mothers and MILs, especially) are witches, jealous with rage and hell-bent on cursing. So it’s kind of like, if we’re implicitly taught from birth to fear and distrust older women who want to eat little children or kill their son’s wives, that probably bleeds into society in some ways.

3) An extension of that reading and thinking over the years led me to a really interesting book linking fear of the dark/fear of night (night being the time that witches do their work, “under cover of darkness” is when villains commit crimes) to…fear of dark skins. The hero is always of “the light” and the bad guy is always of “the dark/dark powers.” It does make a lot of sense, right?

Just some interesting thoughts that there are some really interesting books and studies on topics like this, and it does make sense to reflect on fictional and “fun” portrayals, and why they might be more complex than we think of at first glance. [/quote]

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