I doubt its a double standard. This sounds like more of the usual, flame wars on forums and responses from blogs upend normal human behavior. Even in the article, one of the people who attacked Cuddy realize that they were the people who had told Cuddy to respond the way she did. He himself comments that he forgot about it and then wrote his article against her. he also adds "oh, that email exchange (before writing the article) I had was too polite." But he still respects her as a top notch psychologist.

Matter of fact I'd guess its comments like yours which are fueling the underlying issue. The usual issues with communicating emotion on the internet.

There should not be schisms on science, yet there are - camps on facts. This is a problem with far worse implications than replicability.