You, my friend, are my most verbose commenter, so I'm not sure how that fits in with your theory.
Nothing is preventing the author from discussing the original issue - but women in general have been taught to be polite. I'm not even sure the author was aware of what he was doing.
The "women talk more than men" myth has been debunked.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/marriage-equals/201910/do-women-really-talk-more-men
"A review of 56 studies conducted by linguistics researcher Deborah James and social psychologist Janice Drakich found only two studies showing that women talked more than men, while 34 studies found men talked more than women.[6] Sixteen of the studies found they talked the same and four showed no clear pattern."
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/do-women-talk-more-than-men/
