Question Don't you find annoying most of the female characters in Xianxia/Wuxia novels

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  1. Asf

    Asf 《《The aria of souls》》

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    I can imagine her shatters the earth and topple a country!! xD
     
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    It's so fking beautiful to see some ghost skinned figure or a flour skin figure indeed :\/ the authors got a really white skin fetish... Why not just marry a ghost, it's perfect
     
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    It has everything to do with darker skin being associated with exposure to sunlight being associated to working in the fields for a living. Lighter colored skin was highly valued as a symbol of social status and breeding. It's just like how the ideal body type for Victorian gentlemen was portly because it meant that you were rich enough to eat as much as you wanted.
     
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    Helen ruined Troy with her beauty.
    Cleopatra was no beauty, it was a movies invention for conflict of two Roman generals.
     
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    These threads seem to be coming up a lot these days
    I guess people finally figured out that even if it is a Chinese novel it is the same damsel in distress trope that gets old
     
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    Haha, I have to agree with you. While female characters are annoying, so are annoying male characters. I recently dropped two books because I couldn't wrap my head around how the male leads kept touching the female lead, but she's still mysteriously drawn or indifferent.

    The female side characters are always jealous of what they don't have. Like, is it just a side character to main character syndrome? It just seems like an abrupt thing popping up directed at the male lead. If someone else pretty appeared, would they be jealous of the female attached to his arm, too? JFC.
     
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    Nephrite is also commonly green though, it is probably simply that white jade was considered higher status and therefore what would usually have been what was sent as tributes to the imperial court.
     
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    Well I like my ladies with a distinctive mole.
    Screw smooth skinned jade beauties :blobhero:
     
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    Eat here:

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    This is not photoshopped, there really is a restaurant called KKK.
     
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