I think the way people rush to point out a nonexistent double standard is, if anything, weirder.
Name a national or high profile, sports writer who doesn’t get criticized for doing/saying stupid shit. Peter King, Dan Shaughnessy, Barstool, even Joe Posnanski has taken his knocks.
Did Pos get shit for something other than Paterno? (genuine question). Barstool is easy, that's their goal and brand. Shank, I don't think outside of the Boston market many people would even know who he is, he's not Bob Ryan; again genuine question does he do the PTI/ATH the shows often? I haven't seen those in years. King does, but I think that's somewhat specific to here, like Simmmons.
I think johnmd is 100% correct, it's weird how much crap he takes here; I wasn't a member when he was here I don't think, but I have to think that is part of it. He doesn't aspire or pretend to be a Pulitzer winning journalist, he's a content creator and he's damn good at it. And he finds talent - Lowe, Greenwald, Browne, Ryan Fennessey, Serrano, Lambert, Litman, Rubin, Barnwell, Morris, you can probably give him Klosterman too...am I missing anyone? And they all love him. That's a pretty damn respectable stable of people he either discovered or turned over reins to and nurtured their creativity.
As to Simmons and Burke, I don't think he should get too much shit over that. She was indeed very early to the game as far as national broadcasts as a woman calling men's professional sports. It also was 15 years ago. Does that make her incapable inherently? Of course not and had he said that he should get tons of crap for it, it's patently absurd, but I'm not sure that's the point he was trying to convey. If anything is true, it's that he's not concise and he's fully self-admitted that. The WNBA thing I think should get more heat, but that's possibly because I personally don't care for Burke very much. Frankly if Sarah Thomas wasn't a down judge I'm sure many people (not necessarily here, in general) would at least be like "whoa, is that I female NFL ref?"
I gotta disagree with you man, apologies, but I don't think it's a nonexistent double standard, I think there's a large subset here that have a genuine dislike for for what ever reason, likely that he started out on Digital City as a schlub himself and now is friggin loaded - I think I've read more about how many houses he has from here than even from him. I do agree his tropes are old and tired. If I hear about Teen Wolf one more time I might smack him. But just scroll back a handful of pages and you've seen him criticized as a parent, as an uncle, as sexist, as ignorant (the cancel culture thing was poor form, but overblown), he got shit about his staff wanting to unionize or get more pay, etc. King only really gets crap for Springsteen and Goodell in reality along with his silly Things I Think I Think type crap.