...but when their writers created them.
Jin Yong wrote his wuxia novels during the 1950s and 1960s, and Gu Long wrote his during the 1960s and 1970s. This was a time of great upheaval in culture, not only in China (and Hong Kong/Taiwan, etc.), but in many parts of the world. These were the years of the Cultural Revolution (in China), the Sexual Revolution, the Youth Revolution, and the Women's Liberation Revolution as well as the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. Ways of thinking and living were changing rapidly, especially among the younger generation.
To what extent did these changes impact the wuxia writers' depictions of their characters and the dispositions of their stories?