Yeah, I don't think the book is the problem. I think it's badly written, and certainly it reinforces an ideology I find problematic, and I think both things should be acknowledged (of course, I also think "aliens made them do it" should be acknowledged as problematic, and usually is). At the same time, it bugs me how the target audience's age and gender are explicitly tied to the badness in many criticisms. I mean, come on, has anyone paid attention to what twelve-year old boys read? How about the middle-aged male readership that keeps people like John Ringo in book contracts? And really, it wouldn't take much effort at all to connect the popularity of Ringo and Meyer and the ways in which they both feed into and represent the same set of misogynistic attitudes. So why is Meyer's audience so much more of a focus for attack than Ringo's?