Nope. It's just another card in the progressive's deck. You're just used to seeing the racist card. This is the sexist card.
Basically, it sounds like he's threatening her because he's a he and she's not.
I would have had to have asked him if it was a threat, because if it was, he could just get bent!
Threatening her?? As in, I'm going to whoop your butt? She should have laughed in his face.