"I've seen this guy get attacked for misogyny before, and I can kinda see where those people are coming from.

But reading the books recently, I found that I dislike the female characters a lot less than I do in other series.

Basically, I usually loathe female characters, but in this series I took them on their own merits/shortcomings instead of that kneejer [sic] 'arg female, do not want'"