LJ Idol Week 41: Koro

[suesniffsglue]

BewitchedThe time before the witches were hunted, they flew above the radar with much more ease. Nearly every village had at least one home set slightly deeper in the woods than the rest inhabited by a lone woman. She was sometimes young, and sometimes old; she was sometimes lovely and sometimes weathered. She was always, always fierce, and she

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[i_17bingo]

This was a piece about gender and the destruction and entitlement of toxic masculinity, and boy was that satisfying. Unfortunately some of the subtleties here are still a problem. That first line says it all--that powerful women like Mara are stripped of their power because of fearful, bullshit concepts like "bewitching." That kind of thing just infects so much of societies these days that it's maddening*.

And this doesn't even begin to cover how Henry feels about his penis.

I was also really impressed with Mara's reaction to the situation--she immediately went out to do something about this. I'm even more impressed that cast not only the kind of revenge that a man like Henry would fear the most, but one that protects the other women from the cruelty in his heart.

* Can you tell I'm a feminist?

[halfshellvenus]

cast not only the kind of revenge that a man like Henry would fear the most, but one that protects the other women from the cruelty in his heart.
That was what I liked most about the story as well. Not only was Mara's solution poetic justice, it also kept Henry from repeating his crime.

I love the description of how insufferable he is, and really-- any fairytale village seems to have both of these characters. That the witch is almost always despised rather than respected would have been unjust in Mara's case.

[dmousey]

The Bastard deserved it and more... high fives to Mara.

[roina_arwen]

Henry definitely got his comeuppance... Pardon the bad pun!

Is it wrong of me to wonder how he's going to pee from now on? :)

[crisp_sobriety]

That's not the head I would have removed.