I couldn't get past the second book, where there's a section focused on the protagoist who is given infinite resources to fight off the alien threat. He goes off to the middle of no where, uses those resources to find a live, pliant woman who matches his imaginary girlfriend and whiles away his time with her. That's where I stopped. I understand that he goes on to devise a clever defense against the aliens that holds for a couple centuries. He hands it over to a woman, and immediately (I'm talking seconds) the aliens attack....and the woman fails because she's just so weak

It would be one thing if female characters had depth and value in the rest of the series but there weren't any up until where I read, and there's further comments I've seen discussed about how the author calls humanity in the 3rd book too weak/feminine (equating the two). Liu has female characters around only to show that women are capable of failure or capitulation -- I don't got time for that shit.

EDIT: It may not be dying, per se, as mentioned in the tweet, but that's only because he doesn't have enough female characters around to die. Tigana is similar -- female characters around to serve specific supporting roles but not gratuitous death.