Forbes - Why Feminist Frequency Is Dead Wrong About 'The Witcher 3.'
Are the insults hurled at Ciri designed to put down women in our world? Goodness no. Ciri is a remarkable, powerful, lethal heroic figure. She’s quite a lot more over-powered than Geralt in her scenes, in fact. These insults function the same way insults toward Geralt function—to show how in this world, a woman with a sword is a freak, also, in the same way a mutant is a freak. But that makes her all the cooler and tougher, I think. And really, that’s kind of obvious isn’t it? I’m having a hard time understanding how this qualifies as really important criticism or discussion of gender in video games.