If I understand you correctly, my comment was a performance in which I simultaneously attempted to display my intellectual superiority over the author while at the same time publicly insulting her.<p>Lets be clear. What you&#x27;re describing, and mis-attributing to me, is an attempt at <i>dominance</i>.<p>I&#x27;d say you need to understand two things. First, you simply don&#x27;t know me well enough to make such an accusation. In fact you don&#x27;t know me at all. So, despite your pseudo-clever phrasing (&quot;social display&quot;, &quot;performative dismissal&quot;), all you&#x27;re actually doing is making a series of <i>assumptions</i> about my intentions before going on to do exactly what you accuse me of. And secondly, there isn&#x27;t remotely enough content to my original comment to justify your assumptions.