I have to resurrect this zombie thread for the book I'm reading. It's a bestselling and highly recommended YA set about 30 years in an extremely internet-centric (and otherwise dystopian) future. I'm only 50 pages in but the sexism in this book is rampant, as if no progress will have been made in that area.
Examples:
A high school teacher's avatar looks like an older male but the MC muses that for all he knows, the teacher could be an Inuit woman in Alaska who uses this avatar to teach because it's the only way she'll be taken seriously. Because of course 30 years into the future women will be considered incompetent, especially if they're women of color and doubly so if they're indigenous. Even for traditionally female roles like school teachers.
The love interest has a hottie avatar but the MC gets a grip by reminding himself that *gasp* the LI might actually be an obese male named Chuck! OMG nooooooz! This female avatar has shown no interest in the MC thus far, but all that matters is her potential to authentically make the MC's dick tingle. This fatphobic, homophobic statement gets double cringe (and sloppy editing) points because the author used the "might be an obese male named Chuck" idea both times this hottie avatar LI has come up. I can only hope whoever the LI really is, she or he has no interest in this sexist shithead lunk of an MC.
The LI shows up armed to the teeth and threatening the MC at a point when he is vulnerable and has something highly valuable to protect. Yet his first reaction isn't I hope she doesn't kill me or steal my valuable thing, it's Oh man she's so haaaaawt. Let's focus on her click-click clacking studded boots!
/rant