Talk:The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Guide to Romance/@comment-70.68.221.255-20180129042040/@comment-70.68.221.255-20180918075304

I'll admit right off my knowledge of the character of Yennefer is limited to the games. But what I see is absolutely horrifying and to be perfectly frank if genders were reversed I don't think Yennefer would have so many defenders. Most people would immediately tell a woman who was with a man that acted like Yennefer to drop them like the worst habit. A woman who challenges me is one thing, I appreciate a challenge and I adore a woman who can make me strive to rise to the occasion and grow as a human being. But a woman who does the opposite and makes you feel like less of a human being? That's another matter entirely. Yen treats Geralt basically like he has the mental faculties of a somewhat slow child and is outright abusive both emotionally and physically - never mind that she has few reservations about doing life-threatening if not completely unspeakable things with magic in a fit of pique with almost nonexistant impulse control - and everyone who knows both of them in the game tells him outright their relationship is toxic, including people who actually like her. This is absolutely the gender flip of every bad boyfriend story I've ever heard. A friendship with a psychopath is not boring, psychopaths have "friends" who find the trouble they get into exciting, but it sure as hell isn't healthy. A romantic relationship without mutual respect is not a healthy relationship. For those that would point to the lengths Yennifer would go to for Geralt and others she shows affection for keep in mind an obsessed stalker will gladly do the same for all the wrong reasons.