Correcting a factual point. If a critic can’t get basic facts right, it’s likely other parts of the critique are off base.

No evidence of backing off

It was a skeet not an essay. They do that. Anyone who says otherwise is reading selectively

One can hope

They’re not men

They’re not men. That’s all.

My job? I don’t have one

He’s gonna want a glass of milk

I am sure he studied it closely, not. I am also sure he is the sort of person you actually are arguing with, who thinks liberal social science is bullshit. Which is why his major amuses me. He is not only a fraud but should know better. So lighten up and don’t do that “BlueSky can’t take a joke” bit

Plenty of women are in power there: CEO, managing editor of news, editor of the opinion section, among others. Power, legitimate or not, is an important lens for viewing the world. They would say their job is to interrogate it. That requires some access and an ability to understand its wielders