" . . . but what was surprising and difficult of explanation was the fact that sex—woman, that is to say—also attracts agreeable essayists, light-fingered novelists, young men who have taken the M.A. degree; men who have taken no degree; men who have no apparent qualification save that they are not women. . . .

It was a most strange phenomenon; and apparently—here I consulted the letter M—one confined to the male sex. Women do
not write books about men . . . "

― Virginia Woolf , A Room of One's Own