She/he/it/they can't reliably determine the gender of most of these posters. While statistically sure 80% are male there's a non 0% chance that the fates have aligned and only women happened to have clicked on and commented on this story so far.

It's an annoying SJW tactic of trying to shut down any criticism of a position a women has tried to take. Never mind that most of us probably didn't even notice the article was written by a women because that's not something we care about or look for (I had to go back and check after seeing this comment).