CloudAtlas said:
jehk said:
shadow skill said:
That's like saying that a novel that states that men cannot give birth is discriminating against men.
That's pretty a silly thing to say. Witchers are fantasy. It's written by a person. The author was discriminating when he decided that Witchers cannot be women (which isn't even true from what I've read).
There is no discrimination when sex is differentiated during human development.
Yes, it's not the same thing: one is the decision of a storyteller, the other is natural. But that still doesn't mean it's sexist per se. Just... no. If that's your standard for sexism, then any story that includes some kind of group that is exclusive to one gender is sexist to you. That would probably include... a lot of stories.
Aren't the witchers some kind of order? Would you also call a fantasy game with a men-only knight order is sexist? Because, you know, that's just what these order historically
were?
I'd say it was a dodgy choice to decide to have a men only faction just on histories sake alone. I mean surely that's just perpetuating mistakes of the past.
If a writer tells me that he has magic and monsters in his fantasy and then adds sexism because 'That's what it was like in medieval times' I'm going to raise an eyebrow.
This is a good article on the subject
http://www.themarysue.com/sexism-in-historical-fantasy/
and if you must include sexism this is a good article on doing it right.
http://www.themarysue.com/but-alas-she-is-a-woman-how-dishonored-uses-gender-roles-to-tell-a-story/
Excerpt from the second
'There are many other examples, but those were the two that made me realize that Dishonored is fully aware of how the women within it are treated. It knows how unfair that treatment is. It knows how unhappy these women are. When I played this game, I did not get the sense that gender discrimination was included simply because it?s habitual or historically accurate (more on that in a moment). Dishonored is, first and foremost, a story about corruption. Everywhere you turn, you see how broken Dunwall is.