You don't get to play the gender card to promote ****-poor writing

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When you use "People are only attacking me because I'm a woman" as a marketing tool, you hurt every other female professional out there on the Internet.
A tweet today got me irrationally, stupidly, Peter Cohen-levels of angry. Namely, this tweet by Quartz writer Emma-Kate Symons.
Cult of Mac attacks! Male Apple worshippers on warpath after my point of view piece mocking their Messiah for @qz https://t.co/wITexTAwff
? Emma-Kate Symons (@eksymons) March 25, 2015
Now, I've seen and personally experienced the wrath that comes from angry jerks with Opinions on the Internet, so I can't necessarily prove that Symons wasn't getting gendered attacks the likes of "Stop writing this drivel and go back to the kitchen."
But it's the way she promotes it like a newspaper headline that infuriates me.

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