Alienate? If a conservative woman is going to base her vote upon what she reads by anonymous posters, then she's in trouble already and will more than likely always vote Democrat.
Conservative women vote Republican.
This board has had many threads that are offensive and/or hostile to women.
Do you have the ability to fathom whether it is males or females, trolls, posting those comments?
Through all my years on forums, I've seen men of all political hue comment as you describe disliking. Why is this? Because they sure can't say these things in real time. But women can. And not be hauled off for creating hostile environments, ad nauseum.
And they shouldn`t say those things in real time whether they can get away with it or not.
There is nothing wrong with being courteous to a lady,politics or anything else aside. As much as I dislike her,if Hillary was approaching a closed door,I would open it for her because that is the right thing to do and that kind of behavior served the country pretty well for many decades,regardless of what may be fair or not in todays society.
Well, if you've encountered given posters on other threads over the years, you develop a feeling for whether they are 'trolls'. So, yes, long-term freepers can get quite nasty on some of these threads.