Richard, my argument may be wholly inadequate but yours is entirely speculative and unsubstantiated. I previously asked you to provide me some statistics and you respond with your vague musings.  You have not made your case as far as I am concerned and I also think you are grasping at straws.

As for responding rhetorically to rhetorical posts, that is how I choose to deal with people who engage in it.  It has nothing to do with the presumed gender of the poster as I am completely gender neutral in that regard.  I can assure that that is not uniquely male habit either.  If anyone is big enough to dish it out, they are big enough to take it back.