I'm continually weirded, as 90% of fanfic authors in US media fandom have been female for something like 40 years. Sure, comics fandom and gaming fandom and some trad. male aspects of media fandom (such as LARPing, model making, collectibles liek cards, etc.) have been either clsoe to gender parity (comics and anime have now levelled out nicely, after 10 years of anime and manga making inroads into US popular culure) predominantly male...

But media 'zines? (Then again, I came from Robin of Sherwood fandom, which has always been 200 wimmin and 3 blokes, at the best of times.)

I think some fandoms exist on a special island with amazing forcefields wot keep the rest of the universe out.