Speaking as someone with an engineering degree, I am all for having engineers know something of the humanities. I'm not sure that your comment is demonstrating the kind of communication skill that is often improved by some time studying the humanities. I have gotten comments downvoted as well (on this very thread), and I can't say that I see a whole lot of correlation between which of my comments get downvoted and which were ill thought out. But, if a typical humanities prof were grading a reply that was written in the style of yours, I'm not sure they would think, "aha, this shows the benefit of a humanities education".

But, it's annoying to get downvoted, and not always deserved. It's just not usually helpful, in my experience, to respond to it directly. You said something, others didn't like it. Either: 1) you said something true, but painful, in which case you don't need to repeat it, and responding just distracts from your original point, or 2) you said something that wasn't on target, in which case again complaining about the downvotes isn't constructive.