You're having a different conversation from Mindcrime and Protonfish. Mindcrime expressed confusion that anyone could actually believe such a thing. Protonfis

You're having a different conversation from Mindcrime and Protonfish. Mindcrime expressed confusion that anyone could actually believe such a thing. Protonfish expressed his belief that such comments are primarily intended to hurt, by which he's implicitly agreeing with Mindcrime. He doesn't think the attackers actually believe such a thing. He's not trying to minimize the attack. He's just attempting to help Mindcrime understand how someone would say something that they both believe to not be true. What he's not doing is addressing the origin of the desire to hurt, which likely is based (at least so I believe) in misogyny. No one has at any point said there is no such thing as sexism or misogyny.