[WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

[Sarah]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:

> What subcategories would American men novelists go into? of course women
> would also go into them. By centuries would be one set of subcategories;
> and genre: mystery, western, adventure, fantasy, etc.
>
> Hard to see this as a deliberate slight.
>
> Fred
>

Fred, the point is that, if "American women novelists" is to be a
subcategory, then "American male novelists" would have to be a subcat too.
Otherwise the "American novelists" category would be default male, which is
apparently what happened.

Sarah