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by sulam 3427 days ago
Ignoring the match itself, the commenters seem incredibly sexist. They repeatedly ignored/interrupted a woman saying she'd actually talked to the player to comment on whether or not the player was 'mental' or 'still drunk' or otherwise.
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What you describe is being rude and bad-mannered. Being rude to a woman is not automatically being sexist.
Talking over a woman who is speaking for herself, and discussing whether she is competent without her input, is a classically sexist way to be rude.
No, it's not, someone is simply rude and talks over everyone. A rude person will talk over men, women (without being sexist), black people (without being racist), etc.

Either you demonstrate that the arrogance is specifically targeted towards women and because they are women, or you cannot speak of sexism.

When you defer to men and interrupt women, it's sexist. They were talking amongst themselves and ignoring the woman there, who happened to have actually spoken with the player.