&gt; Women are frequently treated in a dismissive fashion by men.<p><i>Everyone</i> is treated in a dismissive fashioned by <i>everyone</i>. Only evidence and careful reasoning can rebut this default policy. You have presented none.<p>It galls me you interpret treatment that everyone receives as hostility directed toward the group to which you happen to belong. I am under no obligation to give additional weight to your argument merely because you are a woman. That you consider my dismissal of your unsupported claims is intellectually dishonest. You&#x27;re smart enough to know better.<p>You&#x27;re essentially claiming that everyone who doesn&#x27;t accept your unsupported claims is sexist. You&#x27;re free to do make this claim, but in doing so, you&#x27;re crying wolf and weakening your cause.<p>You&#x27;re right that I&#x27;m being dismissive. I&#x27;m also veering toward being disrespectful. That&#x27;s not because you&#x27;re a woman, but because you&#x27;re demanding unearned special treatment. You&#x27;re a technologist. Gaining status on a technologist&#x27;s forum is no great accomplishment.