DaBudha, before you go accusing folks of insulting you, you might want to have someone else read your original thread back to you aloud so you can see if you can hear how it sounded.

Trust me, it was offputting. Particularly the remark about someone deserving a swift punch in the jaw but also the parts where you editorialized about sexism and equality. And now you don't like that. I even got a note from one of the guy moderators saying could "smell the misogyny" in your comments, so it wasn't just women who took you that way.

Seriously, take a step back and conduct yourself a little independent focus group on that original post by having an objective bystander, maybe one of each gender, to give you their candid responses. You asked for people to respond with their opinions and that's what happened. It didn't appear to any of the rest of us on the mod team that you got anything more in response than some candid opinions. If you'd gotten all-out flamed in response, we would indeed have responded. We get a lot of this here. People tell others what they think and then yell "insult" when they don't like what people say, but a personal insult is not the same thing as what you received in those responses. The comment that came closest to meriting the deletion of the thread for moderation reasons was your original post.

You're not going to be infracted or banned for expressing what you did at the top or bottom of this thread, nor is anyone who responded. But if you're not liking what you're hearing, you might want to take a step back before you post further opinions. On this thread specifically you'd probably do well to stop while you're ahead.