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The thing about Equal Rites is, it's not just a book about how girls can do anything boys can do, and the only thing trying to stop her is meanie old men. It's about how girls can do anything boys can do, I suppose, if she really must, though I* can't see why she wants to.

It's about shaking off gender essentialism, not deciding who someone can and can't be as soon as you see their newborn baby genitals, and adults not telling kids to be who they "should" be instead of who they really are... while also being really super clear that the traditionally male-dominated path isn't inherently better, it's just better paid.

It explores Granny's position of trying to hold Esk back from becoming a wizard, stemming not from thinking that girls aren't smart enough or that they should only be wives and mothers, but from a contempt for the flashy and self-important ways of wizards and belief that the more domestic and practical sphere of witchcraft is more important and better. It's a pretty accurate depiction of the way some older women enforcing gender roles think.

I suppose the book is more of a critique of the whole women's intuition/men's intelligence nonsense dichotomy, as well as a reminder not to cling too eagerly to the patriarchy's priorities in the search for equality.

Men aren't better at "jommetry" than women. But "jommetry" isn't more difficult or important than Granny Weatherwax's practical, rural skills - herbcraft, midwifery, caring for and understanding goats and bees, managing people, and so on.

Sir Terry never got on with the assembly lines of formal education, which is probably an important thing to bear in mind when reading this book.

*Granny Weatherwax

ENA if it was Thoschei (awesome)

i can’t BELIEVE what douglas adams did to fenchurch in mostly harmless :(

"Ugh, why are you so apathetic about your future?" What future?

Yeeeaaah sorry about your boyfriend. Yeah, we kinda gave him sequel in the form of an animated series that touched on some of the lore that the original movie never really got into. We kinda cancelled it after one season and never put it on any streaming services. Yeeaah, it kinda became a cult classic ten years later and some kid found all the episodes and uploaded them to YouTube, but we kinda took a bunch of em down for copyright. Yeah, sorry.

“i also choose this guy’s dead wife” was easily the #1 funniest thing to ever be written on the internet.

fun fact! if you were to arrange every fish on earth in a straight line, nose to tail, they probably wouldn't enjoy it very much

Idk why but drawing the squad with these faces would be funny for some reason-