Women Writers BTFO

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Why is this, anons? EVERY TIME a prominent female literary figure appears, a male writer arrives who is more than her match, and who often totally eclipses her.
Look.
JANE AUSTEN vs Sir Walter Scott. While Austen has her cult of cancerous chubby female normies today, in her time Scott dominated fiction. This angered her, and she complained in letters that he was already a famous poet, but had to hog the fiction market too. Scott pioneered the historical novel, his works were successful throughout Europe and America. Austen was little known.
ELIZABETH B. BROWNING vs Robert Browning. Reverse here, Liz was more popular in her day, but her hubby was by far the better poet - he outlived her and grew in literary stature, now being seen as perhaps the greatest Victorian poet.
BRONTES & GASKELL vs Dickens. The combined might of these little ladies was no match for the D. Brontes died in obscurity, Liz Gaskell's efforts to highlight the plight of the poor were totally overshadowed by the Inimitable Charles with his unbelievable creative energy, imagination, humor, wit, and gift for creating memorable characters.
GEORGE ELIOT vs Thomas Hardy. As if it weren't humiliating enough to be found she was really a woman pen-naming as a man (by Dickens, who perceived an error in the description of carpentry in Adam Bede and guessed a woman must have written it). Thomas Hardy appeared as another rural writer, became more popular, more controversial, more boundary-pushing, and was more poetical. He has been considered by some critics as the 2nd greatest English novelist and among the great 20th century poets.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT vs Mark Twain. How can "Little Women" even compete? The bitch even tried to ban Huck Finn, but nice try. Twain is in every list of top 10 best US authors. Alcott nowhere to be found.
EDITH WHARTON vs Henry James. Wharton could not keep up with James, who was somehow both tremendously more prolific and popular and still retained the delicate style she herself wished to stand out with.
VIRGINIA WOOLF vs James Joyce. She tried to be the great stream-of-consciousness modernist writer of the age - but nope, the lanky Irishman arrives with the unstoppable erect modernist cock that is Ulysses. The James was def not afraid of Virginia Woolf.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR vs Jean Paul Sartre. Little Mr Sartre shook every feminist bone in her body. He blew her mind with his frightful intellect and existential insights, and she ended up being greatly influenced by his ideas. He was a better fiction writer too. Their relationship was not hostile, however, and they got along like two peas in a frog.
J.K. ROWLING vs G.R.R. Martin. Some may dispute this, based on the sales count being in Rowling's favor. But books for youngsters backed up by marketing sells a shit ton of paper. Martin rose to prominence with a more dark, adult fantasy world that makes the bespectacled wizard books seem both puerile and naive. 60 million copies sold so far - and growing fast.