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It is true that male reviewers tend to review more books by male authors than they do female authors by a pretty wide margin - that smacks of discrimination.
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But why? If a reader decides to start posting reviews of the books they read, why does their personal preference (which was cool while they were just a reader) suddenly turn discriminatory just because they decided to start sharing their thoughts on their preferred reading material? I'm obviously speaking of unpaid amateur blog-type reviewers here, rather than professionals paid by magazines, newspapers and such, but there's a big bluster about gender-balanced reviewing raging through the SFF blogosphere right now and I frankly don't get it. Like if you don't hit some magic 50/50 mark, you're a privileged, misogynistic d-bag. It's weird.