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Are these men/women writing styles stereotypes partly true?

I'm reading both female and male cyberpunk/postcyberpunk authors, and females, mostly, irrespective of the era they are writing in, tend to explicitly focus on women/LGBT issues, cultural & environmental issues. Most male writers, again, irrespective of when they wrote, keep these concerns in background, if they happen to be included. Am I over-reading?

The tech is amazing, plausible.
The plot is moving nicely.
There is sufficient intrigue.

But the writing is not crisp!

It has that slow literary Austen/Henry James feel (well, not so good) in postcyberpunk - I don't like it - it is overdone.

Despite being hard SF, it doesn't read like one. Oh dear! :(

Coleridge's poetry in postcyberpunk!

I find it so beautiful - and I hadn't read this one before (The Raven - A Christmas Tale)

So many people seem to hate this book.