In the August issue of Wired magazine, under the rubric “Colophon,” is a note to readers headlined “Wonder Women Who Helped Get This Issue Out,” which thanks, among many others, the Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the actress Elisabeth Moss, the former first lady Michelle Obama and “my eight-months-pregnant CrossFit coach.”

It caught the eye of Christie Aschwanden, a science writer for FiveThirtyEight. Around lunchtime on Thursday, she posted a photo of it on her Twitter account, with the caption “Wired just published another issue in which all the features were written by men.” By the end of the workday, it had been retweeted nearly 1,000 times. For a few hours at least, social media was distracted with the expression of outrage about something unrelated to President Trump.

“This reminds me of when Jon Stewart responded to Jezebel’s criticism by having his fem support staff sign a letter saying he was not sexist,” said Emily Nussbaum, the Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The New Yorker, in a tweet that was later deleted.

Anna Holmes, the former editor of Jezebel, responded to Ms. Nussbaum with a tweet of her own, saying, “It’s almost worse: this both tries to deflect criticism *and* directly panders via ultimately empty name-checking of Obama, Moss, RBG, etc.”