If you have a thick skin, then you won't mind my telling you that this is not the first time I've read a rude, immature comment on here and then looked above it to see your name attached to it.
"I just don't take these people seriously anymore. It seems like a uniquely north american woman phenomenon."
There could be some bias because I'm in the United States, and most of the tech news and tech discussion sites I read are in the US, so I'm probably more likely to learn of things happening in the US than in the rest of the world. Still, given that every example I can think of is North American, I cannot criticize his observation.