A reader writes:
Regarding your video about the apparent lack of female readers, it may really be about your particular appeal to male readers. I’ve thought for some time that the affection you appear to inspire in your male readers is a form of bromance. You’re our go-to guy: you’re smart, capable, hardworking, reliable, and invariably an honest provider of insight and advice. Besides this, more than anyone we can likely think of, you’ve been a successful champion of gay rights, and you have banished any thought of anxiety about homosexuality as anything but masculine. In that sense, you make us more masculine by freeing us to appreciate what it might mean to be fully male.
The Dish 