Liandrin, not my favourite...

[Caelan Arendor]

In The Great Hunt, Liandrin encounters Rand for the first time, and as far as I remember, she wraps him in bands of Air to suffocate him. Really? Did she actually have the authority to kill someone—especially since she knew nothing of Rand’s ability to channel—without any formal procedure and without any claim of self-defense? Would she have gotten away with that under the jurisdiction of the White Tower? Only because she was a "Red Sister"? Could they do to men whatever they wanted under the law of the WT?

 

Everyone talks about toxic masculinity these days, and rightfully so. Here we have a fine example of its female counterpart.

[HeavyHalfMoonBlade]

The Three Oaths specifically forbid and prevent using the One Power as a weapon. Liandrin could act so because she was a Black Sister, not because she was Red. 

 

The story certainly has no shortage of unpleasant female characters. But "toxic masculinity" is a much misused term. It does not apply to anything masculine that is toxic or implies that masculinity is toxic in and of itself, but is a term from the Mythopoetic Man's Movement, which sounds, er, interesting. It refers to masculinity that is damaging to the man himself in particular and men in general more than to other people, as I understand it at least. Perhaps you more meant misogyny and misandry where definitely among the Black/Red Sisters there is a healthy (that is, vigorous - slipping into Scots English - not positive in anyway) hatred of men apparent in all their shapes and flavours.