Repeating Myself, But Not Being Redundant

It’s time once again for a flurry of reminders that women writers don’t get no respect.

There were the clueless editors on Wikipedia who had the bright idea of trimming the list of American novelists by carving out a separate list of American women novelists. That nonsense stopped after an American (woman) novelist complained in The New York Times and social media raised an uproar. However, some trolls then screwed with her Wikipedia page.

This isn’t the first time there have been complaints ab...