One ironic thing about the whole shitstorm: Dragonlance was probably the only D&D novel series that consistently appealed to women, and had a sizeable female readership.
The "explanation" i heard for that was that Margaret Weis didn't "really" count since she was a TSR employee at the time, and that she didn't really create Dragonlance, TSR did, she was just the TSR employee assigned to write the novel, so since she didn't create the entire setting from scratch, and market it herself, and get the publishing contract herself, none of her achievements "really" counted.
Smelled like moving goalposts to me.
"There were no popular female fantasy authors until we came around!"
"What about Margaret Weis?"
"She doesn't count. .. "
I've heard similar "She doesn't count explanations for others, like Anne McCaffrey, "Pern doesn't count because that's science fiction, not fantasy")