The idea that authors' gender automatically renders their work inferior is rubbish. Literary sexism = rubbish. So much for V.S. Naipaul. And while we're on the subject, check out the SF Mistressworks list.

Some call V.S. Naipaul the greatest living author of English prose. Does that justify his claim that all women authors are inferior to him? Or is he just a cranky, insecure old man?