You wrote: 2) People mistook him for a woman. How are these connected? The author is reporting on his observations. Indeed, he didn't provide the exact numbers, but they were sufficient enough to motivate him to write the article. It's a personal article, not a scientific study, so you are free to discount it. It seems from my reading of it that he has observed some data and he's attempting to draw some conclusions and reflect on them. He relates his personal observations to the study of what happens when low-skill male gamers react differently when faced with a more skilled female. What do you think of that study of gamers, aidrocsid? How would you explain the difference in behaviour towards more highly skilled gamers of different genders. Regarding your question: He said that NOT all the posts that criticized him thought he was a woman Regarding his mistake about water. We don't know the connection, if there is one, between people correcting him and large numbers of them assuming he's a woman. It seems like an interesting observation though and worthy of note, if we want to eventually be more aware as a culture of our treatment of people.1) People are "correcting" him about conservative talking points.
Do all the posts that criticize him think he's a woman and all the posts that are supportive realize he's a man?
Don’t get me wrong, plenty of folks called me an idiot without referring to me as female
Very few of them [Those in the legitimate know] assumed I was a woman like some of the commenters above did.
So some did - but very few of them.
If it's actually caused by them thinking he's a woman, then sure, we want to be more aware as a culture of our treatment of people. If we're just assuming that's the case when there's no indication that it is, though, that's not understanding anything, that's confirmation bias.
Or it could be that they just think he's wrong and a woman. My point is that we don't have any indication one way or the other and it's intellectually lazy and dishonest to just jump to the conclusion that verifies our narrative without ample evidence that we should. When we assume situations will fit our preconceived notions without evidence we're doing nothing to combat our own confirmation bias. If we care about honesty and accuracy we should try to disprove our assumptions, not prop them up.