For this week's topic, witches, I read the five volumes of Redlands. I found this series to have a contradictory storyline, leaving me not sure about my verdict of it as a whole. The story is about powerful women, but they are constantly faced with misogyny and terrible men. They take vengeance, but they kill many people by doing so. Because of this conflict, I think that the story in itself is about underlying morals and how we are able to challenge and even discard them for a good story. The main characters in this series are what I would consider archetypal powerful woman figures. The three main characters, all witches that hold special powers of some sort, seem to exist for the genuine betterment of their community. They are typically taking vengeance on men that have committed crimes or have treated people poorly. This gives a feeling of justice from these characters. The bad guys get what they deserve, and that really boils down to moral principles. The reader feels as though the characters are doing the right thing by enacting justice, even though they ultimately benefit from it, since they "feast" on their kills. They are not the perfect characters. They use these humans to sacrifice them on certain days of the year. Killing people, nonetheless sacrificing them, generally is seen as a bad thing to do, but it is justified in these stories. I also noticed the unapologetic misogynistic beliefs of the male characters in this series. This really moves the story along for the reasoning behind the vengeance of the witches, even though it is quite disturbing. Overall I really enjoyed reading this series, it was really interesting, particularly the storyline and the art style together.
Discuss how the text(s) you read for this week's assignment did or did not reflect the values and perspectives of majoritarian culture. This piece did not reflect the values and perspective of majoritarian culture in the ways that it was portrayed as distinctly alien, and that humans were the invaders of another planet, and that in order to survive, humans had to have relationships with alien creatures that laid eggs inside of our intestines and organs. This storyline specifically is not something that people tend to think of on an everyday basis. The young main character of the story being chosen as the one to carry the alien babies, and going back and forth on whether to go through with it or not, is ultimately somehow a little bit closer to how we think. If there is any major decision we have to make as humans, it is often dragged out and thought over the possibilities many times before finalizing anything, let alone if other people's lives are at stake. This piece does re...
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