What, Me Worry?

So, I found that one of my blog posts may have played a tiny part in a small kerfuffle.  It might've had to do with my statement that...

I need to read more fiction by men. There, I said it.

I know how it sounds, what with all the stuff going on at DC Comics these days, to say nothing about the general He-Man-Woman-Hater's club vibe that some parts of genre-dom still have (even in writing circles).  Hell, anyone who doesn't know me and sees The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy in my goodreads "currently reading" list might well roll their eyes and write me off as a toolbag....

Now, I suppose it does beg the question, "Okay, Don, where does your fear of that reaction come from?"