Then stop responding. You don't have the right to tell me when I'm allowed to speak or if I can respond to attacks that you've made on me. If you want to have friendly conversations on this platform, I suggest that you start out by being friendly. YOU were condescending and rude to me first. That's when I started getting a bit pedantic.

It's funny how many men feel they can just say whatever they want and that others, particularly women, are just supposed to take their bad manners with grace. You aren't going to find much of that on Medium though. Poke the bear, you get the claws. Law of the Medium jungle.