Well, it's fiction and someone made the choice to exclude women from a major role in the narrative. I mean, it's an intentional choice, and an odd one to make. And women historically had more experience than men going through torturous procedures with high mortality rates and lasting, unpleasant consequences. That was basically childbirth before modern medicine.
Women, for one thing, are not expendable. Men were, are, and always will be. If that's a reason not to forcibly turning them [women] in monster-kiling machines, then I don't know what is. I wouldn't wish for women to suffer without any reason, much less for particular ones I care about. Some people would, just to sound "progressive".
Comparing childbirth to Trials of Grass is just insane, especially if you consider the fact that historically women were valued and respected from going through childbirth vs how Witcher are treaded, particularly by comon folk, in the Sapkowski's writing.
Wow. Well that explains some things.
I assure you, you're mistaken. Sapkowski was rather politically progressive in the days. As in, he was left-leaning.
Heck, some of most powerful characters in Witcher universe are women: namely sorceresses, who sometimes held more power than kings, at least in some instances. The only known instances to me in which anybody could just tell a monarch to shut up and do as they're told, is from sorceress (who also got away with it).
Unlike you, we're not Polish. I don't mean that as an insult. The Witcher books are written from a Polish point of view. There's a lot going on there that people from the Americas, like @JustKneller and me, simply don't understand. You're invited to educate us on that issue, if you're up for the task.
My nationality has nothing to do with anything. Even if you haven't read the books, you'll find at least some of the clues in games. But let's see what being Witcher entails:
- You're either taken away from your parents as a kid (forcefully or by coersion, it doesn't matter, really) or you're orphan, or unwanted child given away.
- You are being raised up in a remote place away from most of civilization, and you're undergoing harsh training on daily basis, just to...
- ...at the some point undergoing Trial of Grass. Out of 10 candidates, 3 or 4 usually lives through. So, 60% to 70% of your peers will be dead.
- There are further training and mutations. Usually one or two candidates live to become Witchers.
- You're excellent swordsman, you have exceptional knowledge regarding monsters, curses etc. Your reflexes and immune systems are greatly enhanced, as well as stamina and healing factor. You can perform some simple magic known as Signs. For that, you traded any potential to live a normal life. Without your say in the matter or consent, of course.
- You are sterile. Forget about having a biological family.
- Or any normal life. Your prospects of being "normal" part of the society is nearly non-existent.
- You are seen as a freak, monster almost, by most of the common folk. You are also often treated as such.
- You earn very little from a very dangerous jobs. Furthermore, the common folks that are paying you often will try
to screw you over while at it.
- Very few people can actually see through prejudice towards you. Needless to say, you have very few friends.
- I forgot to mention that you are aging much slower than normal humans. That should be a plus, unless you consider that doesn't matter much: no Witcher has ever died of old age, so you'll die slaughtered by some monster. Or by humans, who knows.
If anyone reads the above and would like women to go through that for nothing other than being "progressive", then I don't know what I can say to you.
Don't be so melodramatic.
I've seen enough of 'murican politics and how full of nonsense it is and I'm tired of it already.
