It is cool to have different abbrev. for Meet-in-the-Middle and Man-in-the-Middle, it was both MitM before and sometimes cause confusion. But reading 'People-in-the-Middle' I also feel offended to the same level when people try to find alternative terms for pseudo-terminal (pty) master and pty slave.

How does this term bring out so much anger? I hope everything is ok in your life

That’s a lot of words to complain about someone adding a syllable.

But no, it turns out that your actual problem is you believe being interested in gender-neutral language makes you a member of “an extreme leftist cult”.

You sir, are a twerp.

Well the attacker might very well not be a man. Besides the inclusivity thing it would be helpful not to jump to conclusions regarding any detail of the attacker if you try to investigate an attack.