Towards a Harder Bigotry

Amber at Prettier Than Napoleon has a cryptic, provocative post about sexism arguing (I think) that we should hold men to a much higher standard when it comes to understanding the role of gender in society than we do:

If a woman* had written this, people would say, "looks like someone just took her first Women's Studies class." A guy writes it and it's thunderous and prophetic.

So it's a somewhat disturbing irony that the guy speaking actually minored Gender Studies. Is it even possible to communicate this kind of understanding outside of a university clasroom? Are the standards higher for actual students of women's studies, and if so, how perverse of an incentive does that create?