> The vast majority of people on here don't have a figment of an idea of who you are, let alone your gender. If anything, they probably assumed you were a man and were just being armchair arrogant/pretentious. So your base qualification for your complaint ("being mansplained to") is instantly nullified.

It's not about me. I was upset about the careless disrespect in these comments to saagarjha and to the article author Craig Hockenberry. Cycl0p created a HN account yesterday for the sole purpose of replying, incorrectly and dismissively, to saagarjha: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Cycl0p

I'm not a big fan of the term "mansplaining" either, but it's the most recognizable one for something like this phenomenon. I once coined the gender-neutral term "downspouting", but nobody knows it. If there's a better word, I'd be happy to use it.

My own qualifications are largely irrelevant here. All I said was, "I can guarantee that saagarjha knows more than you about Apple development", a guarantee that I think has now has been demonstrated by subsequent comments.