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It is letting one's own ideology overpower all else and precluding any possibility of enjoying some great writing. A lack of any flexibility of mind. The author loved Ancillary Justice, which I thought was a good book and a worthy Hugo winner. However, in doing so she seems to be blind to the very many characteristics of the society portrayed which are downright abhorrent by todays standards and particularly by some of the standards of todays "progressives". Gender may no longer play a role, but their is still violence and intimidation in sexual relationships. The Government is a dictatorship. Wealth distribution is vastly unequal. Diversity is not only not prized but is despised. The Society is expanding by force. It does not regard members of any other culture as being "civilised" and perhaps not even human, justifying any brutality. Only when the new "colonies" adopt the characteristics of the main society do they achieve civilised status. Even then the newly acquired planets seem to be parcelled out amongst the privileged with many of the existing population essentially existing as slave labour.
I am simply highlighting the hypocrisy in condemning sexism etc. in these older works because of ideology whilst at the same time picking one aspect of a more current book whilst ignoring all sorts of ideological objections. Quite apart from anything else we are dealing with works of fiction!
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