I stand by my description, my assertions about Watt's own personal investment, and more to the point, the appropriateness of a warning.
As in another example of otherwise memorable and contemporary scifi, _Accelerando_,
the BDSM slash sex & violence slash misogyny tropes are utterly unnecessary to the plot.
They're an indulgence, and they narrow the prospective audience to those unbothered by, or excited by, such things. Everyone else deserves fair warning.
Stand by what you like. Content advice would be reasonable if you had managed to leave it there, but your gratuitous and idiosyncratic airing of grievances interested me, especially when that required going so far out of the way as to start a conversation on the subject, only so that you could warn everyone of how much attention they mustn't pay to all those terrible...half dozen or so short scenes, in the span of three long novels. (And Stross too, now, comes in for similar ignominy. Do you keep a mental catalog of this stuff, or something?)
It's obvious you have a strong investment in blaming everyone else for your own unsettled and, plainly, deeply disquieted emotions on this topic. I wouldn't expect to see that change now and if I'd been inclined to take it personally, I would not have engaged in the first place. I hope you eventually figure out whatever it is that's troubling you so badly around this. In the meantime, kindly repay me the courtesy of engaging no further here.
As in another example of otherwise memorable and contemporary scifi, _Accelerando_,
the BDSM slash sex & violence slash misogyny tropes are utterly unnecessary to the plot.
They're an indulgence, and they narrow the prospective audience to those unbothered by, or excited by, such things. Everyone else deserves fair warning.