Um, the double standard I was pointing to was you expecting women to "speak out" (which I interpret as, "label themselves in public") without expecting at least

Um, the double standard I was pointing to was you expecting women to "speak out" (which I interpret as, "label themselves in public") without expecting at least the same of men. Alternatively, instead of requiring every post to be metaphorically coded pink or blue, we could all stop assuming any post not so labeled was written by a man. Your solution requires women to do irrelevant work so that we can continue assuming male-as-default while being wrong less of the time. My solution requires a minor shift in attitude, equally imposed on everyone, that would lead us to be wrong none of the time. Actually, there is a third option that someone proposed below: we could start assuming every technical blog author was female unless we bothered to find out otherwise and use "she" as the default pronoun.