I can just imagine some of the comments you could get (hopefully not too many, and hopefully not here) from some people about how it's just fantasy, they aren't real, this kind of stuff does not matter in television/fandom/whatever, but that's just not true. It matters because how you see things in fiction mirrors and can even influence how you see things IRL. We do not turn ourselves off when we watch a show.

Very much this. I've often seen people excuse their character bashing with the, "she's just fictional", "it's just a TV show", etc.

We so often use these shows to relate to one another, to communicate, to share experiences. Hate and misogyny is going to get passed along.