Currently fixating on the fact that the Witcher books are obsessed with hyper femininity and having women perform being feminine to the extreme while the Witcher show is obsessed with hyper masculinity and having male characters perform being masculine to the extreme
#the witcher#and just to clarify both performances are extremely harmful and I will go into heavy detail#and these harms are reflected in the narrative#it is so interesting#I think a lot of it is because women are so objectified in the books and that hyper femininity performance is very tied into that#Women are not objectified to the same extent at all in the show#but we have such strong masculinity in the show#and the performance of masculinity#which I think in some specific ways replaces the objectification in the books#it’s not nearly at the same level#but it is still there a bit#myposts#the witcher books#TWN#the witcher netflix