Those wailing against you are female, nearly all. All that I've noticed so far.
I think your's and their's aspect of this discussion thread is a very fundamental gender-related issue. Just another dust-up in the ancient War Between the Sexes.
You are making your argument in male terms. Male to male. They respond is some ways male-like, but not quite. Still 100 degrees female.
Here's what happened -- you busted into a female-only coffee clatch and don't realize it. They don't realize it either and think that they can play act males.
What a New World! Novus Orbim ... whatever that latin NWO phrase is. The (Orwellian) Brave New World of the internet!
You have run into a pack of alpha females vicously rending the raw bloody meat from their coffee cake.
Yes, I'm a guy. And you're probably right. I hadn't assumed it was an all-women discussion in this thread, but it may well be close to that. I'm no expert on women, but I should know by now that you don't try to break into a conversation between women unless you 1) are one, or 2) are very charismatic. I should also know that it is impossible to persuade a woman that she should not be interested in something. That said, there hasn't been much in the way of attacks against me. It happened last night on another thread, but that's unrelated.