It really kind of disturbs me when people imply that an arbitrary list of authors in an article needs to conform to some Politically Correct distribution model that equally highlights gender and/or nationality/religion/culture.
Roger Ebert is an older, English-speaking, male reader. What classic authors did you
think he would mention?
It seems that every time something like this comes up, it invariably gets examined with an Affirmative Action microscope.
Sorry faithbw, I wasn't singling you out, my post just happened to follow yours.
