Ultimate Mom
Dec. 29th, 2018 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gaytogI'm increasingly coming to believe that the magical girl cycle is a metaphor for pregnancy: the Soul Gem is the womb, Kyube provides the seed, magical girlhood is the gestation period, and birth is a traumatic event in which a piece of oneself (witch/baby) is violently severed from the physical body.
So when Madoka does...
...this, I can't help but wonder if it fits into the pattern somehow. (Abortion?)
One reading is that men are the root of all evil. Kyube is often coded as darkness intruding upon light, so the dark energy swirling around soul gems that eventually leads to a birth is—well, semen. Which means Madoka isn't just destroying each witch, but undoing each insemination. The fact that all that darkness seems to gather on her own soul gem, which she then ritualistically destroys, regaining her individual identity and ascending to godhood...well, I don't know what it means. But it's interesting.
Madoka's godhood is a form of motherhood, as she wraps all the suffering girls of the world into her motherly embrace. Yet to become a mother, Madoka must sever herself from Junko. Does she worry that she might be trapping girls into a dependency similar to the one that hampered her? Then again, she's not just perpetuating motherhood so much as redefining it.
(Eugh. I feel like I'm getting close, but nowhere near close enough.)
So when Madoka does...
...this, I can't help but wonder if it fits into the pattern somehow. (Abortion?)
One reading is that men are the root of all evil. Kyube is often coded as darkness intruding upon light, so the dark energy swirling around soul gems that eventually leads to a birth is—well, semen. Which means Madoka isn't just destroying each witch, but undoing each insemination. The fact that all that darkness seems to gather on her own soul gem, which she then ritualistically destroys, regaining her individual identity and ascending to godhood...well, I don't know what it means. But it's interesting.
Madoka's godhood is a form of motherhood, as she wraps all the suffering girls of the world into her motherly embrace. Yet to become a mother, Madoka must sever herself from Junko. Does she worry that she might be trapping girls into a dependency similar to the one that hampered her? Then again, she's not just perpetuating motherhood so much as redefining it.
(Eugh. I feel like I'm getting close, but nowhere near close enough.)
