On one hand it makes sense that medieval european social relations imply, well, medieval european social relations and it makes sense to use your novel (or your show) to examine those.
On the other I can relate to many people wanting to see women in medieval fantasy to be represented in some other way than constant misery porn.
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The problem is the shocking lack of story literacy in the United States in particular and the world more broadly. It's pretty much impossible for many to understand that somebody being the protagonist of the story does not mean they're good. Actions that happen in the story are not actions that are being endorsed by the author. Lolita is about how if you're a total fucking creep you can turn even the most horrific acts into some beautiful, self justified story and that's bad, not how pedophilia is good. It's kind of like how you can't make a war movie that critiques war even if that's exactly your intent. It's almost impossible to portray racism, misogyny, etc in ways that most audiences these days will understand "oh, the existence of this thing in the setting is not because the author likes this thing and it's actually because they're critiquing it!"
Even worse are the dimwits who go “Ive never seen the series or are even aware of the series” and then go popping off based on whatever third hand account is accusing the work of.
If you don't even know what the story is about and even admit to not watching it, then why even give a critique about it? You’re basing your analysis on a story you made up in your head to get mad at.
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