It’s not magic.

Then why did you make the comparison in the first place? Readers will, quite naturally, assume there is a reason why an example is given; they are used to the mass media carefully choosing its “representative examples” to fit an agenda (i.e. represent a peaceful protest with a picture of the one guy throwing bricks to get everyone thinking it was a riot).

You subsequently explained that your argument could have been made with other, not exaggerated, comparisons – which would have avoided all of this.

If we’re going to get down to semantics (the way narrativeeschatology suggested we always should), “immature little girls” is not a personal insult, as it clearly applies to a category of people and not any singular person. I applaud you for always taking the high ground, but I’d be most interested in how you’d go about extricating her from this category given the behavior she has exhibited. After all, you have not been able to completely extricate yourself from being (falsely) identified as a “weeaboo” during this merry-go-round. I don’t know about you, but insisting on the privilege(!) to insult you does not strike me as characteristic of mature adult-like behavior. If I went around saying that feminists who dislike immature and sexist male anime fan behavior are “immature little girls”, then we might have a problem. But I think my Asian American gay minority status entitles (lol) me to some sarcasm over specific and deliberate rude behavior.

Diversity is sacred in society, yet the feminists want to distill membership to a select few. Just a breath ago, they found solidarity with everyone else who wasn’t a “white male.” These sweet words have been tools all along. Like a gun or a shovel, they can only be ascribed “good” or “evil” in the hands of a user.

Look past the tool, and see the user’s motives. See it in a more personal light: your actions threatened to cast her from her lofty academic position and associate her with otaku. This would’ve reduced her legitimacy to her target audience. Thus, you were ostracized with great prejudice, dropped like a moldy piece of bread. “Shame on you for putting a woman in such a delicate and unmentionable position!” seems to be the message.

Alas, the only people who seek treble damage for slights are lawyers and people of flimsy esteem. Sometimes they’re one and the same.