[Michael Cantor]

Jane -

Instead of throwing around labels like "blustering chauvinists" (and, yes, we all agree Mark Allinson qualifies, and tell him so regularly, but that was one voice out of many), and quoting Shaun out of context on a post where he is actually far more critical of men than women, why don't you (a) pay enough attention to the thread to recognize that most of it was a rational discussion, with any number of men indicating positions supportive of women, and some women appearing to question the need for woman-only publications - an open an even-tempered exchange of ideas - and (b) comment on the various statistics presented, all of which appear to indicate that the primary reason that far more men are published than women is that far more men appear to submit poetry to be published? (I think I just won the longest-sentence -of-the-year competition.)