No they aren't ugly. Of cource everyone has their type what they find attractive but if these women aren't attractive to you it doesn't mean they are ugly at all. I don't want my lesbian love to be male lesbian, I'm saying that Cass looks like I want as woman look.
I'm sure you can understand what I'm saying well enough.
How can you make a pat statement saying they are not ugly when it is a subjective opinion? He can believe they are ugly, and you are free to disagree with him. That doesn't require you to tell him he is wrong, because your subjective opinion does not equal fact.
I am a woman and I happen to agree with him about most of the female characters. I find Sera is cute to look at, but she annoys me too much to speak to her. I have no clue what they did to poor Lei, but she just doesn't look near as beautiful as she did in Origin and DA2. I am also rather irritated with how awful Cullen looks this time. I was happy about him finally being an option because he was the best looking character in DA2.
Nathaniel Howe will always be my favorite companion, & I'd love an expansion that allows for me to have him as a permanent companion and viable romance option. As much as I love the character it would not matter if he was hit with the ugly stick, because I would still see him as I did during Awakening.
I think the most beautiful female up to the point I am currently is Josephine. She is stunning in my opinion. I can say that it was quite difficult to make a nice looking female character with the customization available, so maybe some options are missing that were originally there for the characters in other games. I finally gave up trying to make a pretty human female and made a pretty elf female instead.