Fair's fair 

To be fair, the people giving Dave Winer a hard time over his comments about Blogher should be as concerned over comments such as this by Maryam Scoble, which was partly what prompted my suggestion of tableturning. Of course there has since been quite a lot of tableturning talk.

Meanwhile, one of the responders to Liz Henry's post, Madeline F, suggests being called a sexist is descriptive, not an insult. That's too slippery for me. The simple test is to ask the person being described that way if they feel hurt. It seems Dave does.

Also in those posts is OhPun's characterization of most men as having only limited skills in communication and understanding.

'However, most males do not know how to talk. Period. They can't talk to women and truly they can't talk to other men either. However, since most other men can't talk back, grunting and pointing is considered "conversation."'