Many years ago at the University of Wisconsin, there was an undergraduate literary club. The club consisted of male students who had demonstrated outstanding talent in writing. At each meeting one of the students would read aloud a story or essay he had written, and then submit it to the others for criticism. The criticism was brutal. Nothing was held back. The students showed no mercy in dissecting the material line by line. So hateful were the sessions that the members called themselves "The Stranglers."

Then a similar club was formed. It was called "The Wranglers." The Wranglers were female students also with outstanding writing ability. Like their male counterparts they would read their writings at meetings and would critique one another. There was one noticeable difference. The Wrang…