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tried to rewatch the CW flash season 1 and ngl it was painful bc i forgot how blindingly stupid they wrote him

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Bothers me when the distinction between Witch and Wizard is drawn according to gender. The Witch/Wizard distinction is one of class. Wizards live in towers and have cursed artifacts. Witches live in shacks and have crooked teeth.

draconym

Both witches and wizards can be evil, of course. But when a witch is evil they turn you into a frog. When a wizard is evil they try to tear a hole in reality or raise an undead army. You don't see witches doing that shit because they're working class.

ecoeschatologist

The witch is looked down upon because they are competition to the hierarchical work of wizardry; they present an alternative to state monopoly on magic.

draconym

Absolutely. Witches perform folk magic--you'd never catch a wizard getting overly preoccupied with practical magic like soothing ulcers or curing the flu, but witches are always brewing up stuff for those kinds of reasons.

Magic is like programming. When it's seen as practical and tedious, it's "women's work." When it's seen as academic and intellectual, you get a huge salary and an audience with the king.

tricktster

Yo no joke so Tamora Pierce directly addresses this (particularly in the Circle of Magic books) where Stitch-witches (who do magic with thread and knots, distinctly female coded) can absolutely destroy battle hardened (chiefly male) War Mages because in all of their schooling and practice and horrible battlefield experience just NEVER LEARNED THAT DUMB LADY STUFF and golly, it hasn’t all aged well but the stuff that hit hard in the 80s-early 2000s still unfortunately hits super hard today.

I love Tamora Pierce.