Let me throw the teapot argument at you.
If someone says there's a teapot circling the sun, but we can't see it. Are we supposed to believe them prima facie - or do we require them to prove it? If they then submit a small piece of pottery they puport to be from the teapot circling the sun, shouldn't we ask for more compelling evidence before we hop on board.
When you throw 'scientific studies' into your work that turn out to be little more than reports of what someone said rather than a controlled study or even a meta-analysis, I think I'm on safe ground asking for a better quality of discussion.
I don't have to step in and disprove the assertions of an article for the same reason I don't have to disprove the existence of a teapot - I'm not the person making the absurd assertion in the first place. That's how debate works - otherwise you end up with anyone saying what they want and challenging others to disprove them. Or demagoguery.
The solutions to the problems presented by radical feminism aren't working - how do I know? Texas. There's a backlash coming from the political right off the back of batshit left-ists claiming everything is systemic oppression and accusing anyone of disagreeing with them as being inherently evil - or in your case, of being a duck.
And the final point - 'youngster', before you jumped to that conclusion, you needed to consider the context. The original author and I were sharing a private joke. About a week before this debate, she'd revealed her identity as a 50 something lady. Prior to this, she'd been writing anonymously and many people (including myself) had assumed she was younger. That's the background for the 'youngster' comment. It was a nod to a recent sharing and an injoke.
Don't let context get in the way of a good ad-hominem attack though. By all means take everything you can out of context and launch into an evidence free assassination of my perceived character. It's pretty much on brand for most modern discourse. I don't need to get into a beginner's mindset - because human experience and opinion isn't some sort of graded system. I'm quite happy with the mindset I have.
