> while OP was loudly ridiculed for wanting to change the channel in a more polite way No. OP wanted to change the channel away from THE established channel.

> while OP was loudly ridiculed for wanting to change the channel in a more polite way No. OP wanted to change the channel away from THE established channel. Had OP been a male, and a woman changed the channel back to baseball, the situation would have been the same.