All the rejections I've received have been for my work. Funny that.

I don't worry about gender in fiction. I would expect that if someone's trying to break into a very formulaic genre like romance they may indeed have a problem with a masculine POV book, but that's only to be expected in that genre. Otherwise I don't think it matters; provided the writing is good enough to cross the bar, someone's going to make an offer.

Til then I'm going with the PPPM syndrome (Poor Poor Pitiful Me). (With apologies to the late Warren Zevon.)