"i believe you because you're a woman" is not a progressive statement.

it's either white knight chauvinism or female supremacism, and egregiously sexist either way. it's absolutely backwards and totally reactionary.

belief must be based on evidence, not appeals to gender. truth does not have a gender bias. i'm even willing to label it a new fallacy - reductio ad genus.

i know that the twitter crowd will disagree, but these people don't think very clearly and what they think basically doesn't matter.