As others have said, I honestly don't believe that anyone really has an issue with a female in control, or as a lead.
The issue is when someone in such a major control of a film or franchise, leads with a particular view instead of the story/film itself, usually end up letting everyone down by forcing their particular message/view as the primary focus instead of a good story/film; never producing anything of note (on their own) as of such as their message/view needs to come first instead of a good story/film, leading to the detriment of the story/film (as other conflicting issues are dropped in favour of their view/message based story/film). And when it inevitiably fails as of such, people defend it and try to blame x, y, or z (or a combination of those letters) as the problem instead of the failure of such leads (which is not limited to females clearly, but females are always crowing about it and inevitiably fail need to eat it after).
I would be pleasantly surprised if something decent comes out WITH a strong view/message from the forefront of a creator/actor. But, history is not betting on that happening.