TDR,
I think we all know you meant well, and no-one's branding you as sexist (at least I'm not). But I sighed inwardly on reading your first post; I knew exactly what would happen - and it did. I'm NOT surprised; I've seen it so often on PPRuNe. I too didn't realise how much prejudice was around until I started flying - and that's without even doing it professionally yet. But that's another story. Last time I tried telling it on PPRuNe I got accused of being "obsessed with gender". Sad, isn't it?
I doubt if the moderators will bother closing this thread, but since you started it, you can delete it if you want to.
And thanks for what you were attempting to do - not your fault that it got sabotaged.