this is really making me think like of how deeply ingrained are these tropes in cyberpunk... tbh i havent read much of the staples of the genre and this is really making me go like... wow. also great mention of le guin's on the commodification of fantasy, always forever relevant. Saving you some time with a TL,DR: Author thinks cyberpunk is more style than substance, is full of misogyny, and protagonists never have a real impact on the world at large. Now, my opinions: 1.- The "punk" moniker should be reclaimed and mean something. 2.- Dystopias, cyberpunk or otherwise, are places where progressive ideals have been squashed. Characters aren't paragons of virtue, they can't be. So misogyny, oppression, classism, etc. are features, not bugs.