Personally, I'm waiting until we meet the actual strong female characters from the canon before I even contemplate complaining about how women are portrayed and such. 'cos come on, Molly's and Mrs Hudson's roles may be to be walked all over but so are Lestrade's and Anderson's and Dimmock's and Mike's and sure, Sally's a bit of a bitch to Sherlock but so's Anderson and really, the only people who haven't gotten the shortstick in terms of characterisation are Sherlock, John, and possibly Mycroft (I say possibly 'cos he's certainly creepy and powerful and all but if he anything more? I mean, in the actual series, not fic. I <3 me some fic!Mycroft almost as much as I <3 fic!Lestrade...) But we've not seen the best candidate for strong female role (Irene) yet and we're only three episodes in so I really don't understand what people are getting so upset about.