Jesu God, someone sent you to a University? Either you have a very wealthy family or a very stupid patron.
You found it surprising, to some degree at least, that several women had assumed that your attitude towards them was because they were women. You asked about their experiences, but not before declaring that you found their reactions unfailingly stupid.
You assumed stupidity rather than, say, misunderstanding, or cultural difference, or any alternate explanation. You are predisposed to think of women as stupid and thus likely to ignore evidence to the contrary. Therefore, any woman reading that and telling you regardless about the persecutions she may have suffered is indeed pathetic.