I think the facts are pretty plain: the political media elite, mostly men, are very happy with the current state of gender affairs and don’t want anything to change. and they are willing to be quite aggressive in their defense of the status quo. their nightmare is that they wake up one morning and a female exec tells them that they need to start reporting with female viewers/ readers in mind, and suddenly there are more female colleagues than male, and they have to talk about issues they think are pointless like access to family planning or Gardisil. It would ruin their clubhouse. It would make them feel less important. No way do they want that to happen. So pretend sexism doesn’t exist. Or if it does, it doesn’t effect anything important. but mostly, don’t ever mention it. no, that wouldn’t do at all.