It’s a fantasy setting. Nobodies stopping the show runners from straying away from how things were in the middle ages. If that’s too unrealistic to you, I have a feeling magic, monsters, and witchers might be reality-breaking for you too (not literally you - second person plural you)
The point is that it’s part of the social commentary of the whole thing. If you could look however you want, would you not want to look hot and young? And wouldn’t it also help with surviving in a bleak patriarchal world?
The whole story of the Witcher is partly about how you have to be an all powerful strong woman who can literally set things on fire with her mind, and also look like a bombshell, to even have a chance at a semblance of power. And even so, you are looked at as an abomination, and are at best a second fiddle to the inept bloodthirsty kings, who will kill you if you ever show signs of independent thought.
It’s a fantasy setting. Nobodies stopping the show runners from straying away from how things were in the middle ages. If that’s too unrealistic to you, I have a feeling magic, monsters, and witchers might be reality-breaking for you too (not literally you - second person plural you)
The point is that it’s part of the social commentary of the whole thing. If you could look however you want, would you not want to look hot and young? And wouldn’t it also help with surviving in a bleak patriarchal world?
The whole story of the Witcher is partly about how you have to be an all powerful strong woman who can literally set things on fire with her mind, and also look like a bombshell, to even have a chance at a semblance of power. And even so, you are looked at as an abomination, and are at best a second fiddle to the inept bloodthirsty kings, who will kill you if you ever show signs of independent thought.