VL---"those morally equivocal, duplictous females"

[Mark Kohut]

Laura writes:
I think they're as developed as the next Pynchon character.  It's kind of disturbing for me as a feminist that he's chosen to portray two duplicitous women (with counter-agent Katje as a third).  These aren't demeaning portrayals of women -- none are bimbos or bitches -- nor are they bad guys (Frenesi's no Brock Vond, Lake's no Vibe, Katje's no Weissmann).  But why are these morally equivocal, duplicitous types all female?  Or maybe I've just missed their male counterparts?  Any suggestions, anyone?
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Just thinking about P's women as the embodiment of ideas, avoiding the question of "roundness" in characterization, I too wonder why the 'morally equivocal, duplicitous types" are (mostly) female....

Safe to say that bad Males in his fiction embody the patriarchal power structures, at the least? (Remember fathers/sons in GR?)

And, also safe to think that The Feminine (unduplicitous) is its opposite in most ways? 

In some way, as some scholarly essays (unread by me) argue, are P's positive values Feminist, "Eco-Feminist" as one essay on Vineland is entitled. (awkwardly--imho).  

And do the failures of those values go all the way back to a (Western societal) betrayal of "V."?