In your first bullet point, you are stating a very detailed theory - near as I can tell, A && B && C => low representation (where A is a particular sort of sexi

In your first bullet point, you are stating a very detailed theory - near as I can tell, A && B && C => low representation (where A is a particular sort of sexism, B is low status men being rational, etc). That's not what Altman did, nor did he provide evidence for that theory or any other. The "appeal to worse problems" is not a fallacy - I'm advocating searching for examples which vary the inputs. That will allow you to actually measure correlation - if inputs and outputs vary together, you've got correlation. If they don't, you've got nothing.