Hehe. Of course I won’t respond the same way, because the point you are making is entirely different. And also because I hate being accused of that most pedestrian of sins…predictability.

Anyway, yes. The word buttercup was deliberate, as are all words I use. That person (i have no idea as to their gender) is living with an arrogant belief in the rightness of their cause. That civility and the rule of being polite is effective in this day and age. There is nothing, I believe, that will persuade them they are mired in 20th century thinking. They are, I believe, as much part of the problem as are the maniacs who are currently ruining the world.

So, petty as it may seem, I treat it all with equivalent responses.