What I'm about to say might not make sense, if it doesn't I apologise in a 'Dammit, I know what I mean!' sort of way. There are different types of need for info on here from what I see, behaviour, training, puppy-buying, rescue, food, to name a few. The trainers on here seem to be deferred to IYSWIM by the rescue folk wrt behaviour although thye too will advise how they see it of course, all types of interested party will offer advice on food and the rescue lot advise on that. All draw on their own speciality. The more outspoken folk don't tend to have much involvement on puppy stuff unless about food or crates and stuff like that, and when they do it's factual and helpful as far as I can see . There's room for all. And, if the puppy-question people and the training-question people are going about their business as they seem to me to be, with little pro rescue input at all, stroppy or otherwise, I can't see that they have anything to be 'scared' of. I'm surprised that all you capable women on here are the type to be 'scared' tbh. (That wasn't meant rudely and I hope that it isn't taken as if it is, it's meant as a daft sort of compliment).
In the main, if you come on here and say, eg, that you want help in what to feed puppydog or that you don't know what to do because he's chewing the carpet the people you think are a problem aren't going to say you're a bitch and should get lost they're either going to say try X or Y or they're going to not comment at all because there are loads of people already advising. There's nothing to be scared of in coming on here and asking what you feel is a daft question (or a good one!).
I'm a member of another forum where the same was once said as has been said here. It was pointed out in response that sometimes the people with the strong views (in that forums case rescue owners etc) don't answer 'the fluffier threads', by which they mean easier ones about crates or food, because 1, loads of others are doing that already and 2, that they tend to even bore themselves repeating the same old advice! Added to that they are generally occupied in answering rescue or legal type stuff that the average dog owner member doesn't know and as a result they are conspicuous on the controversial threads and far less so on the general help topics.
Looking att the Doghouse I could spend all day answering posts about rescue, the law on the DDA, advising on rehoming, explaining how strays are dealt with in the 'system' without ever touching a thread about food or crates or sharing a dog-related joke. That way, how would anyone be able to see that I can also do sense of humour or that I'm capable of congratulating someone for their achivements in agility? It doesn't mean I can't or that I feel hostile to the happy agility winners or those with feeding issues, it just means that I stick to what I can offer and the bulk of members can't. Unfortunately that also means that the sad stories I and others see which have made us the people we are and the posts on here which need tough talking (and I have seen those where I have thought that this has been justified) make some posters seem as if all they can do is be stroppy.
Oh lordy, lordy, I have gone on. 
Sorry.
Finally (deep breath) if you want sense of humour, I have to tell you that I've just told my daughter, on the phone to a male friend, that he's a lovely young man. His response was, 'Tell your mum so is she'! 