I remember reading a study that posited low status men tended toward misogyny when they felt threatened by the skill of women they were competing against, and this was the first thing that came to mind as I was reading over this whole saga.
> the negative impact of my tweets was amplified by the fact that I, a white, Western, male CEO of a key company in the Maker community
This guy was not low status by any definition.
The fact that he maintained a sustained slander campaign when he ostensibly had other priorities implies he felt that ‘exposing’ her became important to him, again a trait of insecure, low status individuals.