okay i finally put my finger on what's been bugging me in this manwha, and almost all action manwha with male protagonist in general. it's the mysoginistic bias of the author. okay bear with me!!! i actually love these stories but i do think this bias is negatively impacting them.
we do live in a patriarchal society that reduces opportunity for women and has been opressing them for centuries. the problem is that the authors seem to write their ''fictionnal'' world with the bias that women are not fighters and that this is the norm, such as it is told by our society. exept that they do put SOME strong women characters in the story. my point is that you can't have a coherent worldbuilding if you do not acknowledge the systemic opression of women in the world you created, especially if it's one with OP powers or martial arts supposedly available to all.
if a manwha that has only very few strong female characters for countless of men, you may try to explain this by saying ''oh it's because women are opressed in this world so it's ''normal'''' BUT we as readers are never shown any of that. the only 2 strong female characters have encountered challenges in building their strenght but never any opposition simply for being a woman. then why aren't there more female characters in this manwha? if they can become strong, where are they? is this world composed of 90% men? this ends up being incoherent worldbuilding. it could only be one flashback. like in a swordwoman's past, someone being like ''a woman can't be our family's martial heir''. and then the reader will understand that this is why there's so few strong women characters in this story, this world is a not favorable to them.
my point is the author should choose between 2 directions for their worldbuilding : - 1 : show that their world is opressing women = few strong women. - 2 : never show any kind of mysoginistic societal issue = as many strong women as men.
okay i finally put my finger on what's been bugging me in this manwha, and almost all action manwha with male protagonist in general. it's the mysoginistic bias of the author. okay bear with me!!! i actually love these stories but i do think this bias is negatively impacting them.
we do live in a patriarchal society that reduces opportunity for women and has been opressing them for centuries. the problem is that the authors seem to write their ''fictionnal'' world with the bias that women are not fighters and that this is the norm, such as it is told by our society.
exept that they do put SOME strong women characters in the story.
my point is that you can't have a coherent worldbuilding if you do not acknowledge the systemic opression of women in the world you created, especially if it's one with OP powers or martial arts supposedly available to all.
if a manwha that has only very few strong female characters for countless of men, you may try to explain this by saying ''oh it's because women are opressed in this world so it's ''normal'''' BUT we as readers are never shown any of that.
the only 2 strong female characters have encountered challenges in building their strenght but never any opposition simply for being a woman. then why aren't there more female characters in this manwha? if they can become strong, where are they? is this world composed of 90% men? this ends up being incoherent worldbuilding.
it could only be one flashback. like in a swordwoman's past, someone being like ''a woman can't be our family's martial heir''. and then the reader will understand that this is why there's so few strong women characters in this story, this world is a not favorable to them.
my point is the author should choose between 2 directions for their worldbuilding :
- 1 : show that their world is opressing women = few strong women.
- 2 : never show any kind of mysoginistic societal issue = as many strong women as men.