Bob, If you're looking for trouble, you came to the wrong place.
Someone, not I, might like to check the figures to see if it is true that women "sweep" the sonnet bake-offs. I don't off-hand recall if we have had a bakeoff or a succession of bakeoffs where the ten chosen sonnets were by women, I don't think so, but I haven't investigated.
I remember a lot of fine sonnets by men, esp. one where the entire sonnet was a single sentence. I remember a lot of fine sonnets by women as well. Lots of fine craftspeople hang out here.
Crossposted with Tim.
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