My experience has been the same. However, women can do it too.
Long ago, on another message board far away, we were having a discussion about the history of the English language. Not surprisingly, I had reason to mention the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. I was almost immediately taken to task by another woman for calling the first tribe by the wrong name. “Angles are in math. You mean the Anglos.” I replied that no, I did not, I meant the Angles. At least two other women jumped in, agreed that “Anglo” was correct, and began criticizing me for refusing to ever admit that I was wrong about anything.
I should probably mention here that this was a small, local discussion forum and I knew all of these people personally in real life.
I explained, repeatedly and calmly, that “Anglo” is a term of Spanish origin used to describe English-speaking whites, but the members of the Germanic tribe that invaded the British Isles in the 5th century were called the Angles. My words failed to convince them. They also refused to let me off the hook. It wasn’t enough that everyone else thought they were right (this board was not up to SDMB standards). No, they were determined to see me publically admit my “mistake”.
I was finally reduced to typing in capital letters and declaring that the next person to question me on this matter had damn well better have a cite from an actual dictionary because Webster’s was on my side. Eventually someone did post “Hey, it says that in my dictionary too”. The subject was suddenly dropped, never to be mentioned again…until now!