I was more blunt than this on the Deliverance thread, and people didn't accuse me of attacking Mistral personally!

No because when you said you "didn't understand how intelligent women could like Deliverance", it came across as insulting every female who had already stated why they liked it... either you didn't understand their posts, and as you are rather articulate, it seems unlikely; or you meant you considered no female who disagreed with you to be intelligent. (BTW, why only 'intelligent females'? Do you consider tolerence of sexism to be a sign of stupidity in females but normal in males?)

The first post, which I quoted in full above, said "non-dominant men" were better than "egotistical men" which suggested to me that you saw men who were not non-dominant as egotistical. Guess we both misunderstood what the other meant.

I see dominant people, male or female as egotistical. I have a slight egotisitcal streak myself, as do many of my friends-- but if a person, male or female, pushes their egotism to levels high enough that they push to dominate a relationship, I find them annoying. I do not like anyone to try to dominate me, and usually walk away from such a situation.