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I've never known a woman that was any good at math.

Shame, that would be. Actually, the key thing is to know someone of either sex whose good at math. I do like math people. They're the best.

Once I was being merciless on a computer thread with some Microsoft shill and he questioned by math bona fides and I just pulled out my credentials. He said but of course this is the internet anyone can say those things. Then I started taunting him with yes, but if what I say is really true, do you know what a fool you must look like to me? He got so angry he researched me and began to make repeated posts "attacking" me for being overweight! Which just delighted me because that kind of silly, personal attack is so far from the merits it damns him, not me. So I kept quoting his personal attacks back to him, noting that I did sound decidedly smarter than him and I thought most people in the thread would agree. And chivalrism not being dead, indeed the guys (this being a computer thread, it was mostly guys) did indeed come in force to my defense. The offshoot was he became so flumoxed and angry that he -- who had posted the thread -- actually went to an Admin Moderator and asked to have it pulled.

It really, really bothered him that I might actually be good at math. And that really really didn't anger me -- in fact it pleased me. I viewed it as his problem, his soft spot, and there I did invest, most profitably, in the demise of his thread and his anti-Linux point of view.

It was one of my favorite -- and most brutal -- moments here at Free Republic. I say, with frightening delight, that I do relish my performance in that thread.

I missed that thread...would have like to watch that. LOL.

He shouldn't have went up against a woman that is Ivy League educated and good at math. If he'd have been any good at researching you he would have found out that you play the game of Chess and thrown the towel in early. :)