The Junot Diaz issue: Should we accept his portrayal of women?

Is there anyone more fun to read than Junot Diaz? Doubt it. I love his streetwise Spanglish, feel so smart when you can figure out what invectives his characters are laying down, often just beyond the reach of the ability of a non-Spanish-speaker to piece together the phonemes. I love his typical persona, an extremely smart, bookish, Dominican-American teenage slacker, often bullied by/in awe of an older brother who beats him up and steals his girls and is inexplicably adored by the mom, while persona is alone and bewildered and trying to figure out how he can grow up, get the girls, get a life. In some ways, the typical immigrant-son story, but told in a unique voice - we just don't have many writers working in English from the Latino culture, not male writers anyway. I know Diaz probably gets a lot of slack from the PC-crowd (myself included maybe) - the treatment of women in particular in his novel and stories is very brutal, crude, and disrespectful. Could a nonHispanic writer get away with that? Probably not at all - but we accept from Diaz as being true to a culture, his culture. Maybe - wonder what Latina women think of his stories? If we can set that issue aside, though, his stories are really smart - portrait of a culture, portrait of the artist as a young man making his way through the culture. Great and typical story, "Pura," in current issue of The New Yorker shows all his strengths - the vivid character sketches, the beautiful and witty and original language, the unflinching critique of a culture and a family - as well as the problems, women as objects, Latino guys stereotyped as wannabe gangsters.