The feeling of superiority that many people get from being condescending to, or outright ridiculing, someone who does not have the same level of knowledge they do will never go away. And geeks and nerds are just as guilty of retaliatory condescension as anyone else who grew up being treated the same way because they did not understand sports or whatever was "cool" when they were in high school. Sadly, for some people in our areas of interest, that new player, usually female, who knows way less gets blasted with this behavior, sometimes with the person doing it not even realizing they are doing it. But there are also plenty of people in this internet age who are nothing more than trolls. Trolls who know exactly what to say to do the most damage and get the negative reaction they are craving from their victims. These are people that cross the line into true harassment, who are probably breaking laws somewhere. These are the ones our hobby would be much better without.
But, of course, this type of behavior is anywhere a high level of technical information is needed to be truly proficient. Just look at how men you are really into cars or sports treat women who try to be, or actually are, into it as much as the men are. Or look at the movie The Godfather. If you go by the jokes made around it in other movies or tv shows, deep knowledge of that movie is purely the domain of men, and women do not know anything about it, and the men are always shocked when they meet a woman who can quote it at all.
