Well played!
Heck, there are—ahem—men on this site who will run to the mods for less than a much-deserved “@ssh*le”.....
Yes. Take out the male/female aspect and you have one person saying to a co-worker ‘shut up, we’re talking.’. But he’s saying it her because she is female. He wouldn’t have told another man to butt out. Probably wouldn’t have the balls.