Surprising Discovery, Gender-wise

[akirlu]

Surely there are enough actual incidences of women getting harassed and threatened online without whingeing about invented hypothetical ones? No one actually knows what would have happened if a woman had gone off like Chris Priest. They are guessing, asserting observer bias as fact. Or, to put it another way, if making caustic, abrasive, emphatic, hyperbolic rhetorical flourishes online without being subjected to rape threats or similar harassment is an Exclusively Male Privilege, then people, I am a man.

And speaking of surprising gender discoveries, has James Nicoll commented on the gender balance in the Hugo fiction short list this year, or is it only noteworthy when it *isn't* balanced?