Yes exactly my thoughts, generalising all female characters/female authors to the point where you're just lumping them in a single genre to like/dislike comes from a spot of internalised misogyny. (Not saying OP is sexist, but society ingraines prejudices in us so.)

It could be this. But...

I'm a man who fits into few of the male boxes. I very often relate to female characters far more than I do male characters. Beth March, Lizzy Bennet, Meg Murry, and Tehanu; these are my people. They show me I'm not alone in feeling the way I feel, even though I can't relate directly to all of their experience (e.g., Tehanu's struggle against patriarchal oppression, which affects me in an entirely different way than it does her). When I do relate to a male character, it's often because they too don't fit into the box either: Richard Mayhew, Charlie Gordon Flowers, or Frankenstein's monster (took me wayyyy too long to come up with a third example here, which is only technically male, and is written by a woman, mind you). The way female authors think and write also resonates with me (by and large) much more naturally than do male perspectives.

So yeah. Maybe OP just has a lot of internalized misogyny. Or maybe, like me, she's a little gender queer and just hasn't figured it out yet.

>A lot of people like to pretend that they're neutral, that they only like interesting stories, but they're often the ones with the largest prejudices and blindspots.

In my experience it's usually the ones who assume other people have "internalized misogyny" because of their reading preferences.