What's the difference? In a word, audience. Many women read Vogue, Cosmo, and so on. They might occasionally even pick up Maxim and other "lads' magazines" at hair salons. Very few women buy Hustler, and Hustler isn't the kind of magazine you can run into at hair salons.
Leftist writers should think of women as their primary audience and men as the secondary one and try to appeal to the former more than the latter. In many ways, that makes sense: women are more numerous than men; women read more than men; women are more to the left than men; women have more impact on education of children; women tend to get more involved in activism than men; etc., etc.
Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org>