I started this webtoon cuz the artstyle and premise look great but the treatment towards the female characters... It doesn't outright sexualize or demean them but it doesn't really give them yk, I don't want to use the term personality, more like doesn't let them have their own worth.
Yeah the mc doesn't behave like trash towards them but that's basic decency.
Like, so far three female characters have been introduced. Tell me why are all of them reacting bashfully to the mc, and why do they always have something to do with "beauty" "marriage" "childcare". When the whole foundation of murim, last time I checked, was to let go of worldly desires.
Specially the part about The Bare Handed Jade Maiden, who changed her whole constitution to be able to conceive. Which is fine and all okay, not everyone is the same, not every woman wants to be childless. But then Wang Soso, who going according to the mc is very young so I'm assuming early to late teens, also states that she wants to conceive and hug the man she'll marry. Of course, for people with disabilities that inhibit them from doing everyday things, it's not strange to yearn for intimacy platonic or otherwise. But..
It felt uncomfortable to me that for female characters(especially in this series where they're all from rich martial families aka they have resources and ability to dream beyond trad stuff), marriage seemed to be more important than martial arts in a martial arts series!
I started this webtoon cuz the artstyle and premise look great but the treatment towards the female characters... It doesn't outright sexualize or demean them but it doesn't really give them yk, I don't want to use the term personality, more like doesn't let them have their own worth.
Yeah the mc doesn't behave like trash towards them but that's basic decency.
Like, so far three female characters have been introduced. Tell me why are all of them reacting bashfully to the mc, and why do they always have something to do with "beauty" "marriage" "childcare". When the whole foundation of murim, last time I checked, was to let go of worldly desires.
Specially the part about The Bare Handed Jade Maiden, who changed her whole constitution to be able to conceive. Which is fine and all okay, not everyone is the same, not every woman wants to be childless.
But then Wang Soso, who going according to the mc is very young so I'm assuming early to late teens, also states that she wants to conceive and hug the man she'll marry. Of course, for people with disabilities that inhibit them from doing everyday things, it's not strange to yearn for intimacy platonic or otherwise. But..
It felt uncomfortable to me that for female characters(especially in this series where they're all from rich martial families aka they have resources and ability to dream beyond trad stuff), marriage seemed to be more important than martial arts in a martial arts series!