Well, you got me on Mrs. Gordon. But she's a holdover from his original work twenty years ago. It's disturbing and gratuitous--the way she is built to be a villain. But he was supposedly trying to go for continuity, and he did already build her that way twenty years ago, right? It may be a case of a creator being too stuck with their own creation. Or misogyny. Or writer laziness. It is badly done, because of the level of gratuity. I THINK maybe it would be just as bad/the same if the character was a male character. It's definitely too over the top re: she has no redeeming features.
All the male characters are feckless and only Batman has the answer, and all the women are hot for Batman.
But if we're seeing it through the Goddamn Batman's point of view, and I think we are, that's exactly the way he'd see all of the other characters.