>That's true, but--especially toward the end of the first
>series--there's always an undercurrent there. It shows in the way
>non-witch officers act when it looks like there won't be any need for
>their services any longer. As soon as it even looks like the
>WARLOCK is going to work, there's an instant turn against the
>witches by the brass. All at once, they go from being treated as
>valued and privileged military assets to irrelevant annoyances. That,
>to me, says a lot about how sincere that valuation really was in a lot
>of cases.

I remember doing some scratching-my-head over this sort of thing when reading one of the other Strike Witches-related threads around here, maybe a year ago. I haven't actually watched the anime (still haven't, though I've got dvds and really should), but it has struck me as strange that something very similar to real-world sexism seems to exist in the setting.

If witches have always been around, that doesn't necessarily mean it wouldn't exist, but it seems like there ought to be some differences. Especially since in the absence of a world war, more witches would probably retain their powers well into middle or even old age.

It's possible they just wanted to show some military branch infighting - certainly a real thing - but I'm not sure about the way it sounds like it played out.

-IA.

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