> Of the cited hate mail Savant received, I have to wonder how many were setup with poor writing on the topic.

Have you spent at least equal time considering, given the tenor of much of it, how many were instead willingly exposing their simple misogyny?

You might be a bit younger than me, but I remember this well, and I remember this being one of my first introductions into the idea that men who are wrong will lash out with misogyny if it is a woman who proves their ignorance. Even academics.