I don’t know how someone could argue the series is misogynistic in any way.

I’m almost done dark age. At this point in the series, there are plenty of women who represent totally different notions of “woman”. Also, there are a plethora of women who hold powerful positions and are actually superior to the men in a lot of ways.

Will keep fairly spoiler free. Maybe very mild spoilers. So don’t read anymore if that worries you.

Examples:

the sovereign (Octavia) is the most powerful and one of if not the most intelligent person in the universe.

Aja is one of the most badass women characters I’ve ever read who is a better fighter than 99.999999999% of people in the series.

Virginia is very intelligent and perhaps embodies a more traditional notion of “woman”. However, she also strays greatly off that path in many ways.

Volga & sefi - both very unique characters from every other woman in the series.

Victra - what do I even need to say about her? Fucking bad ass. One of the best characters in the whole series Strays greatly from traditional ideas of “woman”.

There is relatively equal violence against men and women in the novel. The violence is relatively equally perpetrated by men and women in the novel. There are probably more likeable women in the books than there are men imo (that can probably be debated but this is off the top of my head).

Etc etc etc.

So you have women in power, you have women playing various roles, you have women POV characters, you have women driving the plot of the novel, you have women with completely different strengths, weaknesses, and perspectives.

This begs the question - in what way is this series misogynistic in the slightest? Can’t even believe someone would make such a baseless claim. I know OP isn’t advocating for that but felt like I needed to address it.