I will fully admit that I tend to hold many female characters to a higher standard. This doesn't mean that I want them to be perfect. I would just like them to be well written. With NCIS as the example, there are a total of TWO regular female characters. Perhaps because of the disparity, I have a lot less tolerance for suffering poorly written ones.

::nods:: There's been some discussion in this post about the difficult line that exists between disliking a female character because she is poorly written or stereotyped, disliking her because she doesn't live up to one's personal ideal, and disliking her because of internalized misogyny. The lines are often very blurred, especially as characterization can vary from writer to writer.