My friends, including readers and authors, know I don't care for the genre of Women's Fiction. I'm not in any way implying that because I don't particularly like it, neither should you. That's not the point of my admission at all.
I'm going to give a description of SOME women's fiction - definitely not all of it. But these are the reasons why I don't prefer reading most of it.
Very often (from what I've read) women's fiction focuses on family drama in the forms of estrangement, sisters'/brothers' quarrels, husband/wife strains, parental failures, sibling rivalries, lots of overt or covert rebellions.
Depressing trials with limited resolutions until possibly "the end".
Characters (mostly female) I can barely tolerate if at all.
Emotional drama - which tends to produce over-the-top unnecessary reactions to certain behaviors or circumstances or passive aggressive responses to those factors.
Now please take note that all of these reasons comprise real-life scenarios that in fact do take place inside and outside family dramas. Normal lives in certain situations can create these various family conflicts. So why wouldn't an author strive to write stories about them? They present important issues families might have to face and overcome. In other words the genre is worthwhile and has a particular audience which it serves well.
Just for me, I prefer to read and write in other genres. That's all.
Father, thank you for all the wonderful imaginations of authors. Your giftings are vast and far-reaching. May each author realize: Apart from you, we can do nothing. Thank you for it all. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.