I really liked Anna Bogutskaya's book on horror, but I found Unlikeable Female Characters really... well, obvious? It didn't feel particularly insightful, more like a regurgitation of the plots of various movies and TV series, many of which I was already familiar with.

To be honest, I feel like the question is less why people are so against unlikeable female characters and more why they hate female characters in general, and that's part of why this doesn't satisfy. Growing up being interested in fandom, Gundam Wing and Final Fantasy VIII, there was such rabid hate for characters like Relena Peacecraft and Rinoa Heartily, and on an adult assessment... actually, they were really nice girls.

Digging into that was probably more what I would've been interested in, but even so I found this rather repetitive and unoriginal. I've read this listicle, basically. It makes me wonder if the book on horror was less insightful than I thought, and more obvious to a fan of horror... This was disappointing, anyway.