[Ilmesnkie_Jones]

The trouble is that if she had shamed someone over a different kind of joke the backlash she would have gotten would probably been much less and of a radically different type.

Women feel threatened because there is this wellspring of misogyny that gets drawn on regardless of whether what they say is right or wrong if they call someone/something out on it. It would be a lot different if the reaction to Richard's was less extreme and less misogynous in character.