#pls keep geralt 25000 ft away from her

[shvkespeares]

The way Yennefer was written in Netflix Witcher was horrendous and wildly ableist. I keep seeing posts and gif sets of her going through the transformation and lauding her as a badass which is fucked up on so many levels. There was nothing empowering about her (a disabled woman) going through an intensely painful surgery while awake in order to become able bodied. Even worse is the fact that the surgery left her sterile. This ties straight into eugenics where disabled women and women of color would be forcibly or unknowingly sterilized during routine procedures. She was abused into thinking that there was something wrong with her which caused her to hate her body so much that she underwent a horribly traumatic event to “fix” it. And then when she is angry about her infertility (as she has a complete right to be) she is told she knew the price and that she wouldn’t make a good mother anyway. Again, reinforcing the idea that disabled women cannot and should not be mothers. This is voiced several times by the man who supposedly loves her and instead of portraying her anger at her sterilization as reasonable we view her wish as irrational. Yennefer is a deeply tragic character and she is not a badass because she underwent a traumatic procedure to become beautiful and powerful. She’s a badass because she was constantly abused by the people who were supposed to protect and care for her and experienced deeply traumatic events and yet she still keeps going and fighting.

#the witcher #yennefer of vengerberg #pls keep geralt 25000 ft away from her #i love him but he does not deserve her nor would he treat her right #anyway idk how shes portrayed in the books and i just started playing the game #the rest of the show is good but the writing for her is #ugly #making this into a seperate post bc its important #and im tired of seeing gifs of her screaming in pain w captions like #she did that