The Angry One wrote...
And maybe if that legendary Witcher appeared or was a playable character and got handed cards with naked men, I might authorise myself to give a damn.
I think people care too much about the cards - since they don't have animations for any of the sexual encounters, save rocking beds, or plaster falling from the ceiling, and I simply see the cards as trying to give it a bit more than just a black screen.
There is no need to collect any of these, like you don't have to unlock all the achievments in ME and DA for all romances done, and I've never felt compelled to do so, rather I roleplay Geralt as I feel like it, sometimes he will give in, sometimes not, depending on which way I cast him (he is a fairly limted character).
Geralt himself never says any detrimental things about women on automation, now you can make him, but any instance when I've seen that you can, and I've tried it the women lash back and tells him to go and **** himself.
So outside the visual character design I see no problem with sexism from either CPDR or that you yourself have to suffer as you play the main character (all sexual blackscreens with the following card are optional) and in general the women are as strong as the men in the game, just rarely warriors/fighters (save two I think).
The world in it self is filled with it on the other hand, and women will utter lines like "I can't talk to you because my husband forbids it" and in an other woman frankly tells you that her husand punched one her teeth out just yesterday (she says this everytime you ask), but these I see more as the world showing that there is a gender divide, and only those women that grab for power, either like Triss through magic, or Shani through knowlage, or the two fighters through skill - have made it out from the opression of their sex by the world they live in, and they are all selfmade, and all are strong characters on their own.
And I'd like to see a DLC, an expansion, or a spin-off featuring Triss.